‘A huge honour’: Manchester City’s pride as Etihad Stadium picked for Rugby World Cup
England will play at Eastlands when they host the 2015 competition
Don’t look back in anger: Zat Knight demands Bolton Wanderers forget final day playoff heartbreak
The Trotters missed out on goal difference
Vicious thieves pounce on young pair in Salford subway daylight attack, snatching iPhones
Three men fled towards East Lancashire Road
Have-a-go hero has three teeth knocked out and eye socket shattered after breaking up Rochdale pub row
Victim attacked in the White Lion on Yorkshire Street
In pictures: Huge blaze at derelict Oldham factory tackled by firefighters as nearby homes threatened
Fire raged in Chester Street, Werneth
Altrincham receives £150,000 High Street Renewal Award boost to rejuvenate struggling town centre
Town is one of seven in UK to receive award
Piccadilly Pulse: Is David Moyes the right man to replace Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United manager?
Everton man will lead Reds from July
‘Passion into profit’: Budding young business folk descend on Manchester for inaugural National Youth Market
More than 80 traders are set to attend
The Northern Quarter… hip, bohemian and plagued by heroin? Manchester hotspot blighted by drug addicts
Heroin addicts seen injecting in broad daylight
‘He must be caught’: Thug followed, attacked and robbed vulnerable Eccles pensioner, 81, in broad daylight
Pensioner was attacked on way home from shops
Woman falls from Tameside bridge in suspected suicide – police appeal to couple who witnessed death
Woman fell from bridge over M67 on Saturday