Manchester comedy veteran Smug Roberts is getting into ‘Rocky training mode’ ahead of a mammoth 24-hour gig marathon across the North West for Comic Relief tomorrow.

Comedy veteran and Phoenix Nights actor Smug Roberts is appealing to mosques and churches to open their doors and host him as part of his Red Nose Day ’20-20’ tour next weekend.

A family doctor who performed an exorcism on a seriously ill woman, promising her that God could ‘heal’ her without medication was struck off at a Manchester tribunal today, after being branded a risk to all patients.

A Christian family doctor performs an exorcism on a seriously ill patient after promising he can ‘heal’ her without medication, a Manchester medical tribunal hears.

Figures revealed 45% of population agreed with statements deemed ‘anti-Jewish’, forcing members of the Jewish community to feel ‘fearful’ of staying in Britain.

In 2014, the country recorded the highest number of anti-semitic attacks in three decades, with further shocking research published yesterday revealing that nearly half of the British population agreed with anti-Jewish statements.

MM take to the streets of Manchester to hear what Mancunians have to say about freedom of speech.

All Souls Church reopened last month following the completion of a £4.9million regeneration project to modernise the Grade II*-listed Victorian church.

As religious extremism and conflicts continue to dominate headlines, a Manchester Jewish writer is claiming religion ‘far more unites us than divides us’.

The Church of England announced yesterday that it has formally adopted a legislation that means a female bishop will be a reality in the New Year. MM asked the people of Manchester’s opinion on the new change.

Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, was visiting Greater Manchester pub to meet the Oldham Street Angel when he got behind the bar.