A lorry has set ablaze, sending clouds of smoke billowing across the Manchester-bound M602 motorway – it is not yet known whether the driver of the vehicle has managed to escape the fire.

Phone sex operator Cameryn Moore will be performing her award-winning play Phone Whore and writing her world-famous ‘sidewalk smut’ at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival this month.

A religious studies teacher from Salford used his position as a ‘respected’ member of the community to sexually assault young girls – one victim was just seven-years-old when the abuse began – a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court heard.

Salford’s punk poet Jon Cooper-Clarke has set pen to paper to create a poem to celebrate the British coastline in collaboration with the National Trust.

Caleb, who is nominated for Best Director at the Manchester International Film Festival 2015, spoke to MM about his short film One Word and the ideas behind it.

Metal cylinders, once containing the potentially lethal ‘legal high’ laughing gas, that are littered across Salford by users are being transformed into a community art project by police officers.

The fixture will form a small part of an fun-filled family day in support of two charities – One Stop Breast Clinic at Salford Royal Hospital and Once Upon A Smile

A Manchester care worker believes that young people in care are being ‘criminalised’ after figures revealed that they were five times more likely to end up facing the criminal justice system.

Figures, requested under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that the cash-strapped council spent £62, 205.75 in 2014/15 alone, despite proposing 122 job cuts in December.

Ron Smith, 77, and Robert Anderson, 71, from Swinton, were shopping at the P&H convenience store on Bolton Road, Pendlebury, when the 19-year-old burst in brandishing a kitchen knife.

Around 2,000 swimmers are expected to descend on the waterways of Salford Quays to undertake the one mile, dock-to-dock open water swim tomorrow.