Emotional child abuse cases skyrocket in Manchester by 50% – NSPCC demand immediate action
Manchester has seen the number of child emotional abuse cases surge by half in the last four years, claims the NSPCC.
Beam me up: Manchester’s verdict on how city would use teleportation after Dutch ‘breakthrough’
Professor Ronald Hanson, from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, claims to be the first person to teleport particles between two points three metres apart
MM’s top five…Greater Manchester vintage clothes shops
Greater Manchester is bursting with charity shops, vintage stores and fairs so whittling them down to just five is tough.
National petition to protect music venues wades into noise row over Manchester’s Night and Day Café
The Music Venue Trust’s petition, founded earlier this year, calls for an urgent review of current noise abatement legislation affecting many city centre bars and live music haunts across the country.
Piccadilly Pulse: Manchester says ‘no’ to Nigel Farage as Prime Minister… and even UKIP voters agree
The controversial party turned out to be not-so-controversial with voters as UKIP made serious gains all around the country, but what do the people of Greater Manchester think of UKIP and its controversial leader
Sunny days ahead: Caribbean restaurant Turtle Bay comes out of shell in Manchester for packed launch
A treasure trove of tropical treats were revealed in the launch of Manchester’s latest Caribbean restaurant and bar Turtle Bay last night.
Sweet dreams are made of this: Boutique hotel chain get go-ahead to transform Grade II-listed Manchester building
Boutique hotel chain Eclectic Hotels has been granted permission to transform a 140-year-old office building into a 40-room boutique hotel in the city centre; set to open in early 2015.
Painting the park pink: Manchester’s LGBT annual picnic brings together stalls, birds and Eurovision stars
Manchester’s LGBT community are set to hold their annual Peel Park Pink Picnic on July 27 for the fourth year running.
‘I believe in Wayne Rooney’: England boss Roy Hodgson backs Manchester United striker over Scholes criticism
England play their send-off friendly at Wembley against Peru tonight before heading to the World Cup in Brazil, a tournament where they need talisman Rooney to shine.
LS Lowry painting worth £3m reveals wasteland as former bustling Manchester station – after lying hidden for 30 years
A oil painting of a former bustling railway station by Salfordian LS Lowry, entitled Station Approach, Manchester, is set to fetch £3million at auction.
Fighting crime one bite at a time: Manchester’s canine detectives sniff out 423 criminals in one year
On average, 182 arrests were made each day during the 12 months, with a whopping £7.8million taken from criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act