Proud to be a quitter? Smokers reveal triumphs and failures for No Smoking Day
Thousands of smokers across the country are giving up the cigs for this year’s No Smoking Day, but what will one day of being smoke free achieve?
GP incentive scheme did NOT save lives, says Manchester uni study
According to results, there was no relationship between quality indicators included in Quality and Outcomes Framework and mortality rates in the practice locality.
YOU could be a blood cancer patient’s ONLY donor match, charity tells Mancunians
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.
Boy, 16, arrested over ‘sale of ecstasy pill to schoolgirl’ who later fell ill in Wythenshawe
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of drug offences after allegedly selling an ecstasy tablet to a year eight schoolgirl who later fell in South Manchester.
Working dine to five! Manchester restaurant food brought to your door or desk
New Manchester company City Waiters are offering restaurant food to your door or desk from 10:30am – 11:00pm, seven days a week, with charges starting from £2.50 to the city centre and surrounding areas.
Nine body parts, 3,000 donors… 25,000 lives saved: Manchester nurse’s tireless South Asian donor drive
An inspirational Manchester nurse could save 25,000 lives with five years of tireless campaigning to educate and recruit more than 3,000 South Asian organ donors.
Wartime waistlines: Win obesity battle ‘by enforcing WWII rationing’
Senior lecturer in nutritional sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University Haleh Moravej believes that eating in moderation, like wartime rationing, is the best way to avoid health problems such as cardiovascular disease.
Betting on love: Ladbrokes’ #EverlastingKiss campaign gets MM in the mood for love
Like 72% of the UK, the team at MM are suckers for love so we’ve decided to pucker up for charity and take part Ladbrokes Bingo’s #EverlastingKiss social media campaign to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.
Sweet or volty? Popcorn machine electrocutes two Didsbury Cineworld staff
Two staff members of the Parrs Wood Cineworld received electric shocks while using the faulty popcorn machine in the same day – costing the cinema £12,193.29.
‘I used to sit and cry at night’: Manchester mum of severely autistic boy pens brave book to ‘give others hope’
A dedicated mum of three from Manchester has written a book about life with her severely autistic son, and wants more people to know that they are not alone in finding it tough.
Stockport charity chief’s refreshing take on disability: ‘Live long enough and we all end up disabled’
Scope’s Kiss the awkward Goodbye campaign uses tongue-in-cheek Valentine’s Day cards to highlight that there is no need to be awkward around someone just because they have a disability.