Burial cities: Bodies should be buried in Manchester’s parks with birdboxes instead of headstones, claims uni
The UK’s cemeteries are expected to be ‘full’ within 25 years – so Manchester Metropolitan University have proposed ‘burial cities’.
Tameside trio take inspiration from Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round to tackle gruelling global charity bike challenge
Russell Selby, Mark Phillips and Jake Mellor are eight months into the charity fundraiser challenge
VIDEO: CCTV shows moment Hyde cyclist DELIBERATELY run down by car – but miraculously survives
The victim suffered wounds to his leg, arm and back in the crash on St Mary’s Road, in Hyde, Tameside, at around 2.15pm on Saturday April 26.
Dove Stone Reservoir murder: Craig Wilcox had gang ‘after him’ – his father vows to keep memory alive
Craig Wilcox, 28, had vanished in January after telling friends that he was living in fear of ‘some lads’ who were ‘after him’
FC United’s Mike Norton puts ‘heartbreaking’ loss behind him ahead of Conference North play-off decider
Karl Marginson’s United face Ashton United tonight at Gigg Lane for a place in the play-off final against Fylde or Worksop Town
The day the music died: 70% of Manchester public ‘not bothered’ by pound store replacing Market Street HMV
Pure Bargains now lets the 36,000 sq ft location on the main high street after HMV moved out of the location in January, after two decades in the building. Their remaining city centre store is in Manchester Arndale.
The Midland Hotel and me: Manchester’s most iconic hotel from Rolls meeting Royce to Hitler’s dream
One woman knows Manchester’s Midland Hotel better than most – and whose life is inextricably linked to the grade II* listed building.
Fit and healthy Hale boy, 17, ‘loved by all’ dies from rare undiagnosed heart condition that usually affects old men
A-level student Harry Dubois collapsed while watching TV at home and died earlier this month
Dove Stone Reservoir death: Murder investigation launched weeks after man’s body dragged from water
Craig Wilcox’s body was found in Dove Stone Reservoir in February, seven weeks after he went missing
Wanted – undead with love of brains: Zombie training school seeks fresh meat for Manchester apocalypse
2.8 Hours Later, the cross-city urban zombie chase game will be hitting the streets of Manchester in July, and the organisers will be holding a Zombie School on July 5-6
Motorcyclist, 27, dies after colliding with car in Hattersley
A 27-year-old man was travelling along Ashworth Lane on a Skyjet motorcycle around 9am when he collided with a car