Four Greater Manchester districts feature in the UK’s top 20 job seeker sanction hot-spots – making it one of the most heavily penalised regions in the country.

Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.

Like millions of teenagers across the country, former Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form student Nathan Cousins had to make the difficult decision on whether to persue a university education or to find a full time job.

An anti-facist group have branded English Defence League supporters ‘Nazis’ as they attempted to counteract a rally in Manchester at the weekend.

With the looming general election and prospect of devolution the city is ‘at a very important point in our history’ according to the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) chief executive.

Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that British economic recovery has reached a ‘major milestone’ is naïve, according to a Oldham MP.

FC United’s accreditation as a Living Wage employer in October last year, when they became the first club in England to pay their staff a minimum £7.65 an hour rather than the £6.50, is just one reason the non-league Manchester side are making waves in the national consciousness.

A drug dealer who used his elderly mum’s car to deal cocaine around Manchester has been jailed after the substance was found stuffed in his underwear.

Ten men have been charged as part of an ongoing investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.

Only 1200 people in Manchester are signed up the blood stem cell donor register. In response to those statistics, Delete Blood Cancer UK have launched a new campaign to increase the numbers of donors.

Manchester could possibly be following Lincoln’s lead to ban ‘legal highs’ after GMP announced they were locating shops that are selling the substances across the city.