The famously prolific musician, who formed The Fall in Prestwich in 1976, fell ill last year and cancelled a number of US tour dates.

Cllr Sean Hornby, the leader of UKIP group on Bolton Council, called for Mr Bolton to step down, saying the party chief’s position was ‘untenable’.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality – better known as WASPI – are still demanding justice, seven years after the government raised their state pension age by up to six years without giving them any or only very little notice.

The left-wing activist was the vice-chair for Momentum; a Labour party movement set up in 2015 by Jon Lansman and described as a grassroots party supportive of Corbyn.

Shrek the Musical is back in Manchester for two weeks and it is the feel-good lift needed by anyone who returned to work and school after Christmas.

The announcement, in November, may have come as a shock to many outside of the African continent, but not to Dr Admos Chimohwu.

Google is a wonderful tool – especially if you are bored and want to kill time by reading unnecessary information about pretty much anything you can think of.

Manchester families lock horns an incredible 447 times each year, according to a new survey.

As part of hosting company UKFast’s mission to promote, motivate and encourage digital education, the local organisation has begun a new programme of developing cyber cafés across the Greater Manchester region.

A legendary football coach is to receive a blue plaque 60 years after dying in the Munich air disaster.

Mancunians bracing themselves for the deadly Aussie flu can track the illness on a live map.