The Liberal Democrats leader also suggested Leeds and neighbouring Sheffield could also get on board to build an economic centre to rival southern juggernaut London – as suggested by the Chancellor in Manchester last month.

One in three people in the North West are not confident that their complaint will be handled fairly by police, the IPCC claim.

Domestic abuse offenders are more likely to be successfully prosecuted in the North West than anywhere else in the country, claims to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Manchester has seen a significant rise in local Pride events set to go ahead this summer with four shows building the anticipation for August’s city-centre spectacular

While the government claimed the crisis was over thanks to a ‘recovering economy’, the union claim North West workers are not out of the woods just yet.

A oil painting of a former bustling railway station by Salfordian LS Lowry, entitled Station Approach, Manchester, is set to fetch £3million at auction.

The average salary in the North West is £19,656, while the average house price increased to £155,781.

The charity’s findings also showed that 3.8million working families from across the UK could not pay their rent or mortgage from their savings for more than a month if they lost their job

The number of Manchester children living below the poverty line is the largest in the UK, despite nearly four million tons of food wasted each year. But what is being done about it?

A survey reveals a third of people dream of been a music star while at work

A total of 1,117,000 people were economically inactive between October and December 2013 according to the Office for National Statistics