If you feel an extra crunch in your popcorn at the Trafford Centre Odeon, you may want to make sure you aren’t getting more than you paid for.

Tucked away in unit seven of Longsight Business Park is non-profit organisation Rethink Rebuild.

MagnaRep: Reptiles & Exotics, Rescue & Support started over eight years ago as a family idea but quickly turned into a reality when charity trustee and founder Nick Wilburn, 25, took on the project to rescue animals in need.

Sad and frightening headlines have splashed the front pages of the newspapers in 2015, but a Manchester illustrator is hitting back with a paper celebrating the year’s most cheerful news stories.

Eight environmental projects in Greater Manchester, including a primary school gardening club and a project to re-invigorate Brunswick estate, have received £12,170 of FirstTranspennine Express Green Grants.

The Manchester-based CityVerve project has been announced as the winner of a government-led technology competition, and plans to use the Internet of Things to revolutionise the city.

Manchester food banks are feeling the strain of increased demand as families struggle to feed their children over the Christmas holidays.

A 100-year-old World War One diary has inspired a retired engineer to take up his hobby, writing, as a career.

Employees and unpaid clients of Elastic Artists face financial uncertainty as the dance music and urban acts booking agency teeters on the brink of administration.

‘Mad Friday’, the last working day in December, traditionally marks the official countdown to Christmas as people celebrate finishing work for the festive period.

The number of pleas for help made to North West councils by people on the brink of homelessness has almost doubled over the last five years.