Sedgely Labour councillor Alan Quinn used his comfortable victory – which saw him gain 57.6% of the vote – to ask why UKIP, if they really stand for UK independence, do not worry about the manufacturing sector like he does.

The Conservatives now have a majority of 34 seats, eight more than Labour.

Manchester cancer sufferers could soon receive better treatment and improved prognosis with a ground-breaking service in Greater Manchester’s fight against the disease.

Labour’s John Mallon snatched victory from a sitting Conservative candidate by just 19 votes.

While CAP didn’t gain any seats at Thursday’s council elections, recently appointed party leader Michael Moulding is ready to push ahead with plans to get Wigan city status and break from Greater Manchester.

Labour took two wards from the Conservatives and one from Liberal Democrats in the council elections.

Liberal Democrats celebrated return of former council leader Dave Goddard in Offerton but suffered the shock loss of deputy council leader Mark Weldon in Stepping Hill.

Just hours after securing their first council seats in Greater Manchester with victories in Bolton, UKIP snatched two more in Oldham to send shockwaves through the three main political parties.

Huge cheers erupted as Labour retained seats in 17 of the 19 wards, but lost Ashton Hurst which the Conservatives managed to snatch back by just 18 votes.

Left Unity is a party ‘with feminism, socialism and environmentalism at its heart’ and was formed to oppose capitalism by cleaner Janet Phillips.

His Pakistani-American wife, Faryal Makhdoom, gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of this morning