Live bands, belly dancing and Tai Chi will be on display this Sunday as Higher Blackley Community Centre marks 50 years at the heart of the district.

The Rochdale Canal undercroft is a hotbed of crime and anti-social behaviour and the location of nine deaths in just six years right in the heart of Manchester city centre and the city council want to close it off completely to the public overnight.

A charity has accused Manchester City Council of lying about homeless figures, saying that they don’t paint a ‘true reflection’ of the situation in the city.

Manchester City Council has threatened to shut down homeless camps across the city centre as Homeless Rights for Justice campaigners have relocated to the Castlefield Bowl.

Manchester bookworms are invited to flick through the ages with the latest exhibition coming to Central Library.

Manchester’s LGBT community is kicking off a summer full of sport with a brand new festival of fitness and activity throughout this month and the annual Pride Games.

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.

A war of words began between homeless campaigners and Manchester City Council today when protesters camped on St Peter’s Square were served an eviction notice.

A homeless protester says he felt ‘bribed’ by Manchester City Council as they offered him sheltered accommodation he had once been told was unavailable after serving him papers to evacuate his Albert Square campsite.

Manchester’s people and business are being encouraged to become more age-friendly and pledge to increase awareness of the needs of the city’s older citizens by the Lord Mayor himself.

A Moston shop owner has been fined £1,000 for selling tobacco products to an underage person following a sting operation by trading standards.