A scrounging father who duped strangers into giving him cash handouts by falsely claiming his 11-year old daughter had cancer has been locked up for 18 months.

Manchester will stage one of the biggest Chinese New Year celebrations in Europe and start the ‘year of the ram’ with a bang this weekend.

Kanyiso Moyo was working on a night shift at the University Hospital of South Manchester in March 2013 when he climbed into an empty patient bed, on his break, and fell asleep.

Sordid diary extracts revealing Fred Talbot’s ‘obsession’ with teenage boys have been released by police – after they were used to convict him at a Manchester court today.

The 65-year-old, who worked as a biology teacher at Altrincham Grammar school, was cleared of eight other indecent assault charges at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court earlier today.

The dish was created by the owner of Manchester’s Splendid Kitchen, Mike Edge, and head chef Sam Longhurst, in the hope of appealing to customers who cringe at the romantic menus on offer at this time of year.

The hunt is on for two men following an attempted kidnapping in the Strangeways area of Manchester earlier this week.

After being closed for over a year for a £15million revamp, the Whitworth Art gallery will hold a weekend’s worth of events to celebrate its reopening on Saturday February 14.

Manchester has been named the world’s 14th most sustainable city and community groups are the driving force behind it, according to an environmental campaigner.

The search is on for the very first Mr Manchester, which will run alongside Miss Manchester at The Palace Hotel this May.

A man who robbed a nursery in Oldham just minutes before children arrived for the day – leaving staff shaken up and scared to be left alone – is being hunted by police.