MM spoke to Nicola Savage, fundraising manager for Ronald McDonald House Charities, who is proud that the organisation provides an invaluable service at what can be an emotional time of the year.

The work of Ronald McDonald House charity has been lauded as ‘exceptional’ by the director of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, after the charity raised £155,000 at their annual gala dinner.

Life-changing calming techniques have been introduced at a Manchester hospital’s mobile chemotherapy unit in order treat patients who suffer from anxiety and a phobia of needles.

The closure of a circumcision clinic in Hyde has sparked a backlash from the local Muslim community, claiming the closure is an ‘attack on the practice of their religious beliefs’.

An online alcohol demotivator app is giving alcoholics across Manchester and the country another tool to add to their sobriety tool kit in their battle against addiction.

Hospital care for self-harm patients has been linked to a higher risk of death, in particular admission to a psychiatric bed, in a University of Manchester study.

A Salford man has been shot in the hip and investigating officers believe it may be connected to the ‘targeted attack’ that killed Paul Massey a few weeks ago.

A little boy has been hospitalised after he was attacked and bitten by Staffordshire Terrier/Pitbull cross in Radcliffe yesterday.

A Bolton man was left fighting for his life after a fire blazed through his home, where he lived alone.

More than a thousand men in the care of mental health services are committing suicide every year, a report by The University of Manchester reveals.

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