Dozens of bands pulled out of the Hit the North festival following allegations against the promoters of the event, SSD

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Central are the first constituency to declare at the 2019 General Election.

Cannes regular Ken Loach’s latest offering ‘Sorry We Missed You’ is another traumatising but important no-thrills inquiry into poverty in the UK, this time focusing his lens on zero-hour contracts.

Manchester’s Etihad Stadium has missed out on regaining rugby league’s big Magic Weekend event for 2016.

56% of first-time managers never work in the top four divisions again.

City’s Champions League match against Mönchengladbach was a perfect example of his lack of lethal finishing, as he regularly found himself in perfect positions, but failed to beat the Swiss Yann Sommer on numerous occasions.

Geordie Colin Plews is just one of more than 3,000 participants in the Manchester 10k next month – but one of very few who’ll be running the quarter marathon in a dress.

Wayne Rooney insists that Manchester United cannot afford to look past their game at Newcastle United tonight after boss Louis van Gaal admitted they were in a ‘rat race’ for Champions League qualification.

Robin van Persie scored the third as Louis van Gaal’s men dominated Newcastle 3-1 to extend their unbeaten run to eight games.

TechNorth, which falls under the Lib Dem’s Northern Futures initiative, aims to ‘co-ordinate the existing digital technology expertise of Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Newcastle to create an internationally renowned virtual agency’

Michael Carrick is aiming to make his first Manchester United appearance of the season in the coming weeks after recovering from injury.