Twenty four people have been sentenced – with over half a century’s time in prison handed down – in a widespread clampdown on drug dealers in Tameside.

Favourite to be the next Labour leader and champion of the working class Andy Burnham has been labelled part of the ‘metropiltan elite’ in the national media.

The herbivorous Dreadnoughtus was once thought to have weighed 60,000kg but it appears those estimations were wrong and the dinosaur may have weighed a mere 38,000kg, according to the University of Manchester.

As a city, we’re renowned football fanatics, but new research has shown that our sporting allegiances could even influence our interior design.

Currently 500,000 people in Greater Manchester are already covered and this will increase to 1.1m people, through new initiatives in Wigan and across the city of Manchester funded by over £8m from the national Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund.

The family of a 21-year-old man, who was killed in a Denton brawl, have paid tribute to their ‘fun loving son’.

Working from home is a rapidly growing trend in the North West as the number of people doing paperwork in their pyjamas has increased by more than 70,000 in the last 10 years – and 200,000 more would like to join them, according to the Trade Union Congress.

Feminist science-fiction film The Last of Her Blood that follows a young woman’s fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic reality and is based in Manchester is set for release on June 12.

She’s just a small town girl… from Stephenville, Texas, and she needs your help to get across the pond to study how to tackle teen pregnancy and sexual health in Manchester.

Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy on the suspicion of the murder of a man who was killed during a large brawl in Denton.

Manchester’s shopping and eating district is launching a new monthly market later in June and the first event is to feature a Lego Walk to raise money for the Christie.