Simon Martins, 24, was given an eight-month suspended sentence in Manchester Crown Court this week, after knocking down Hyman Steinberg, 82, as he walked to Ohel Torah synagogue on Leicester Road in December 2012.

UKIP made British history on Sunday night as they became the first party that wasn’t Labour or the Conservatives to top a national pole since 1910 – a success achieved without even having any MPs.

MP for Blackley and Broughton, Graham Stringer, has slammed Labour leader Ed Miliband for ’an unforgivably unprofessional campaign’, causing the party to underperform in terms of its policies and the local elections.

More victims have come forward claiming ex-Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith sexually abused them.

Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, was trained by the Alzheimer’s Society to become a Dementia Friends Champion

A campaign to lower the speed-limit in urban areas has been branded ‘reckless’ by Manchester’s branch of the Alliance of British Drivers.

No More Cold Homes, a campaign aiming to combat fuel poverty in Britain, offered people the chance to grill key politicians at the open meeting last week.

The number of Mancunians applying for JSA has dropped over the last year but more needs to be done according to Labour MP Graham Stringer.

First tweets from Manchester celebrities, politicians, public figures and footballers…

Mark Berry, better known as Bez, plans to run as an independent candidate in a bid to replace current MP Hazel Blears.

Tony Benn: he encouraged us. These words are Tony Benn’s chosen epithet, which he said he’d be ‘very pleased’ to be remembered by