Hapless Rochdale thieves break down brick wall in failed bakery burglary
Rochdale police are hunting two burglars who tore down a brick wall to gain entry into a bakery after failing to rob a newsagents.
‘You could hear the boulders crashing through the trees’: Swinton trekker’s narrow escape from Nepal quake
A Swinton-based trekker has described the drama of her narrow escape from the Nepal earthquake, which has now claimed the lives of over 8,000 people.
‘Truly devastating’: Cyclist dies in hospital after collision with car on Wigan road
A cyclist has died after a collision with a car, which left him with fatal injuries, in Wigan yesterday.
Labour’s future ‘catastrophic’ if Miliband’s legacy watered down, warns Oldham MP
A Greater Manchester Labour MP has said it will be ‘catastrophic’ if the future leadership ignore Ed Miliband’s suffering at the hands of the right-wing press or water down what the party stands for.
Michael Meacher hails ‘sensational’ Labour victory in Oldham West and Royton
Against the back drop of a disastrous night for Labour in Scotland, Michael Meacher has retained the seat in Oldham West and Royton that he has held since 1997.
Andy Burnham thanks ‘warm and decent’ people of Leigh for majority victory
Andy Burnham has secured his seat in Leigh, with a majority of 53.65% an increase over the 48% he gained in 2010.
Fracking could cut value of Manchester homes by thousands, warn experts
Potential fracking sites in the Greater Manchester are likely to wipe tens of thousands of pounds off the value of nearby properties and make homes harder to sell, according to new findings.
Getting Whig-gy with it! Party candidate on Manchester comeback and challenging ‘politics of petty differences’
Despite dominating politics in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has been 150 years since the Whig Party contested an election in Manchester – but now they’re back!
General Election 2015: 12,000 new voters register in Manchester in last month
A breakdown of the figures released by Manchester City Council this week show that of the 363,005 people are eligible to vote in the local elections, 48,397 people have been registered since December 2014 with 12,014 signed up in the last month alone.
‘It’s time to tackle air pollution’: Manchester group back Supreme Court order
A Manchester environmental group has backed a Supreme Court order demanding the Government to develop a new plan to tackle illegal levels of air pollution.
‘Lowest of the low’: Elderly couple’s sat nav nicked moments after Hulme crash
A picture of a callous thief, who snuck into an elderly woman’s car to steal her sat nav moments after she was badly injured in a collision in Hulme, has been released.