A staggering 40% of year 6 pupils in Manchester are overweight or obese figures have revealed.

Manchester’s National Cycling Centre is cultivating a ‘production line of success’ according to its Velodrome Manager.

Sir Richard Leese has been accused of playing a ‘political game’ by allegedly delaying the announcement of Manchester City Council’s £11million windfall to boost moral after announcing cuts.

Apprentice star Sanjay Sood-Smith spoke about his own personal experiences of homophobic abuse in Manchester yesterday, as part of the city’s Hate Crime Awareness Week (HCAW).

Older heroin users are 27 times more likely to be murdered than someone in the general public, according to a University of Manchester study

Tameside General has been exposed as having had a higher death rate than the national average during the year spent in special measures.

A serious crash between a pedestrian and a truck has taken place on Portland Street in the middle of Manchester’s city centre rush hour.

A family doctor who performed an exorcism on a seriously ill woman, promising her that God could ‘heal’ her without medication was struck off at a Manchester tribunal today, after being branded a risk to all patients.

The 43-year-old has since been inundated with requests from happy couples desperate for the Million Love Songs singer to attend their nuptials and make their big day the Greatest Day.

Rochdale Police are urging the public to stay safe at night after two women were assaulted in the Kingsway area over the past four days.

The weekend event moved to the site in 2012 to accommodate increasing numbers, and the City Council are working in conjunction with organisers to ensure problems from previous years aren’t repeated.