Burnham invigorated by ‘best ever’ Labour campaign in Leigh
Exit polls by the BBC and YouGov put Conservatives ahead of Labour by 77 and 21 seats respectively, but Mr Burnham remains optimistic.
Getting Whig-gy with it! Party candidate on Manchester comeback and challenging ‘politics of petty differences’
Despite dominating politics in the 18th and 19th centuries, it has been 150 years since the Whig Party contested an election in Manchester – but now they’re back!
‘Find £8bn a year for NHS or a deal is off’: Clegg gives rivals ultimatum on Chorlton visit
The announcement joins three other ‘red line’ policies which the party says will be non-negotiable conditions in any coalition deal, just before a possible hung parliament next week.
Home of the brave: 63% Manchester willing to stand up to their horrible bosses
As the BBC reveal that medical staff are having to learn how to stand up to their bosses with a simulator set up at the University of Oxford, MM took to the streets to find out if Manchester have a problem voicing their views to people in positions of authority.
Mancunian matters of the heart: I cry at night because I’m so lonely but he’s right there next to me…
This week, MM’s very own agony aunt hears from someone who feels so lonely even though her partner is right there.
‘Sicker than the patients’: 90% of North West ambulance workers suffering with stress
Long hours, staff shortages and mental demands – they’re the reasons why 90% of ambulance workers in the North West are suffering from work-related stress and more than four in five are thinking of quitting.
Be ‘proud’ of brave NHS staff who joined Ebola battle in West Africa – Man Uni prof
The national health service volunteers illustrated the ‘best of the NHS’ while assisting in West Africa during the Ebola epidemic, says a leading humanitarian and health expert from Manchester.
‘I befriended depression to survive’: Author Matt Haig on creativity and mental health
Ahead of a talk tonight about the relationship between creativity and mental health, MM caught up with author Matt Haig on how he befriended depression to defeat it.
Manchester hospitals hope to reduce horrific symptoms of tinnitus with drug trial
Manchester resident Campbell Robertson, 73, has suffered from the condition for six years and only found out he had the condition, which he was unaware existed, after being diagnosed by a doctor.
Hard to swallow: North West revealed as most obese region in the country
New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveal obesity hospital admissions were higher in the North West than anywhere else in the country last year.
Sale mum of meningitis survivor says NHS vaccine cheaper than son’s £3m care
The life-saving vaccine is currently available privately, but Manchester meningitis ambassador Christine Etheridge, whose son Ben contracted the disease in 2004 when he was just three, believes it should be provided by the NHS.