The talented winner pf this year’s Manchester Day photography competition has been announced after judged sifted through hundreds of ‘dazzling’ submissions.

Manchester City Council has approved the additional funding which is made up of £1.69m from the council’s own clean city fund alongside £6.34m of money the authority successfully applied for from the Department for Transport.

In the wake of the announcement of £59million cuts to the city’s budget this year, MM submitted a Freedom of Information request to the council to discover their other sources of income.

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.

Help can’t come soon enough for some of Manchester’s disadvantaged children and families but it will come sooner thanks to a new council initiative to build a better, brighter future for those in need.

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.