David Cameron’s u-turn on cigarette packaging branded ‘weak and pathetic’ by Manchester MP and health experts
Furore over plain packaging ‘u-turn’
A gun, an axe and a sawn-off shotgun: Terrifying arsenal of ruthless gang behind Salford prisoner escape
Police release more details of ambush
‘It’s been too long’: Michael Bisping hopes rumours of October UFC card in Manchester come true
Bisping is hoping to fight in front of his home crowd in October
Shaun Wane insists Salford City Reds ‘will want to play’ as Wigan Warriors look to extend Super League lead
The Warriors are above Huddersfield Giants in Super League
Get them back behind bars: £10,000 reward for duo busted from Salford prison van by shotgun-gang
Reward will be paid when Ryan McDonald and Stevie McMullen are in jail
Heart-broken family pay tribute to grandfather, 75, killed in crash near Leigh – lorry driver in custody
Paul Garratt died on Wednesday
Miracle graphene will transform solar energy and ‘power entire buildings’, claim Manchester scientists
Graphene is the world’s strongest material, but is incredibly light
‘Deeply horrified’ Coronation Street actor Bill Roache vows to fight rape charge – but still cut from show
Roache ‘strenuously denies’ rape claims
Guilty: Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall faces jail after admitting child sex abuse – with one victim aged NINE
Hall, 83, admits to 13 offences
Coronation Street actor William Roache arrested on suspicion of rape – star axed from soap pending investigation
Ken Barlow actor arrested this morning
‘Order, order…please!’ Rowdy David Cameron just half as polite as Gordon Brown according to Manchester study
University of Manchester researcher studied PMQs