The American writer behind the world’s most well-known family, The Simpsons, has been named the first official patron of the Salford International Media Festival.

Patients and campaigners are rallying together as the announcement comes that many of Greater Manchester’s hospitals are set to be downgraded after Healthier Together’s review of healthcare.

The Monthly Gift is a Manchester campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the issues women sleeping rough face dealing with their periods and increase donations of sanitary products to the homeless and those in need.

Self-harm is putting significantly more young people in hospital in Greater Manchester than in the rest of the country, new figures reveal.

Twelve men have been arrested on suspicion of trafficking after a multi-agency operation led by Greater Manchester Police and Home Office Criminal Investigations.

Councillor Sean Anstee has heralded the move for reducing low paid workers’ reliance on tax credits while Labour MP for Manchester Central Lucy Powell dismissed the chancellor’s move as a ‘sleight of hand’ that would leave Manchester workers out of pocket.

The public health agenda of each of the areas will now be driven by plans laid out by their own health and wellbeing boards.

A series of major Oldham drug raids have seen 13 people, including three teenagers, charged with supply or conspiring to supply heroin and crack cocaine by Greater Manchester Police.

In The Conservative Party Manifesto 2015 David Cameron then ‘committed that he will only lead a government that offers an in-out referendum’ on EU membership before the end of 2017.

Figures, requested under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that the cash-strapped council spent £62, 205.75 in 2014/15 alone, despite proposing 122 job cuts in December.

A menacing photo of a masked, hammer-wielding thug – who attacked a police car following a high speed chase – has been released by GMP in a bid to catch the offender and his counterpart.