Heckle hassle: Justin Moorhouse embraces crowd gags for Chorlton gig but tells ‘drunk idiots’ to stay at home
Justin also featured in the Phoenix Nights spin-off, Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere and the Ken Loach film, Looking for Eric
A life less painful: Boost for osteoarthritis suffers as Manchester uni team given £260,000 for treatment study
A team, led by Professor Ray Boot-Handford, have been given the cash by Arthritis Research UK to conduct a study which they hope will revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis.
CCTV: Robber who used scrawled note to swipe £20,000 from Hazel Grove Sainsbury’s
The bizarre armed robbery occurred on Saturday, 26, when a man went to the currency exchange counter near the front entrance to Sainsbury’s on London Road, Hazel Grove
Jailed: Oldham fraudster caught with more than £300k under bed must pay back cash made over 50-year stint
Peter Bell, 67, of Dalefields, Delph, pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering and being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of income tax
Boy of 15 found hanged near country park in Salford
The body of the 15-year-old boy was discovered in a wooded close to Clifton Marina and Country Park, Salford, on Monday evening
The (not so) great escape: Salford gang who staged armed ambush on prison van jailed for 100 years
Ryan MacDonald, 21, and Stevie McMullen, 32, both of no fixed address, admitted conspiring to escape from lawful custody
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