Online app new tool to help Manchester alcoholics battle addiction and relapse
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.
VIDEO: Comic Rufus Hound features in hilarious St John’s Ambulance first aid campaign
Comedian Rufus Hound has raised first aid awareness by featuring in hilarious video produced by St John’s Ambulance in Manchester.
Beneath the glitz, glamour and greed… a look at obscure deadline day transfers
The transfer window, complete with its deadline day denouement extravaganza, reached new levels of absurdity this year, with over £870million spent in the Premier League alone.
Paint a vulgar picture: Make Morrissey a vicar in a tutu with Leeds artist’s paper dolls
Morrissey may not have a stitch to wear but paper dolls of The Smiths’ frontman – created by a mega fan and available online – come complete with a range of outfits, including a special Christmas number.
Strelchenko’s ‘partner’ charged with murder after pianist found with fatal injuries in Manchester home
John Martin, 48, has been charged with the murder of Natalia Strelchenko, an international concert pianist who lived in Newton Heath.
Bogus meat: Manchester supermarket slapped with £20k fine after selling lamb mince bulked out with beef
Manchester Superstore (Rusholme) Limited, which is based in Wilmslow Road and supplied meat to many of the restaurants and takeaways on the Curry Mile, were found guilty after their representatives failed to turn up to a hearing at Manchester Magistrates’ Court.
British Cycling National Track Championships: Wiggins to lead world-class line up
Former Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins and British cycling’s golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott will all wow Manchester velodrome audiences at the national track championships later this month.
Barking mad? Manchester comic Harriet Dyer hopes her night gives people a place to laugh their troubles away
Harriet Dyer, who originally hails from Cornwall, has been running the Barking Tales comedy night at Joshua Brooks since the start of the year with a very simple – yet affective – goal.
Charity on a mission as parents in Manchester and Salford struggle with cost of school uniforms
Wood Street Mission, which launched a major new initiative earlier in the summer called SmartStart Manchester & Salford to help low income families with school costs, supplied school uniform worth more than £85,000 to 1,741 children and 835 families in August.
‘You can’t jump until you’ve said goodbye to your family’: Fireman rewarded for Big Wheel heroics
A hero firefighter who saved a drunk and abusive suicidal man clinging to the Big Wheel in Manchester City Centre last year has been honoured for his efforts.
Guinness World Records 60th anniversary: MM’s top five Manchester achievements
On the day that Guinness World Records celebrates 60 years since the publication of its first annual book of records, MM gives you our five favourite brilliant and bizarre world records set in Greater Manchester.