Young people from all over the UK will congregate in Manchester for the country’s only National Youth Market to be staged in the city this weekend.

Manchester Storm this week announced their first pre-season matches following their return, 18 years after the original team closed due to financial problems.

Don’t underestimate the vocal capabilities of 15,000 teenage girls. That’s the first lesson.

Just half a mile out of town is Altrincham Retail Park – yet another boring concrete metropolis with shops no different from anywhere else in the country. But there’s a twist: it’s the Queen’s.

Adults in the North West are afraid of discussing death and scared of writing our final wishes, new research has found.

In a quirky fusion of science and music, the ‘composer in residence’ of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute will unveil her testament to the wonder material that’s got everyone talking.

CCTV footage of a frightening high-value heist which saw an Altrincham jewellers lose hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of watches has been released by police in a bid to catch the crooks.

In the 22 years that have passed since RNCM graduate Tim Benjamin – adopted northerner, entrepreneur and musical prodigy – won the BBC’s coveted Young Musician of the Year Composer’s Award at the tender age of 17, everything has changed.

Manchester City’s Steph Houghton and Lucy Bronze helped England’s Lionesses overcome a 1-0 deficit against former champions Norway to set up a World Cup quarter-final with hosts Canada on Saturday.

Coronation street star Julie Hesmondhalgh took Shakespeare’s much loved classic Romeo & Juliet to the grassy stage of the Bolton Parish Church gardens last week.

In the wake of yet another mass shooting of innocent people in the USA the issue of increased gun control has once again become a hot topic.