Boxing club leads fight against anti-social behaviour across Greater Manchester
A campaign to encourage young people to take up boxing in a bid to keep them away from knife crime
Want to live a long, healthy and wealthy life in the NW? Find out where you should live (and places to avoid)
MM look into graphs which illustrate the connection between affluence (via house prices) and life expectancy, for both males and females. You will be able to see that, on average, women outlive men – which has been the trend, since the 1880s.
Revealed: Rat infestations more than DOUBLE in Manchester city centre
Between 2015 and 2019, Manchester City Council recorded a consistent rise in reports of rat infestations, which more than doubled in the five-year period, growing from 469 to 1058.
It’s going to work out: Why lockdown won’t change our social need for gyms
Today, the fitness industry is worth billions globally. But everything recently came to a halt and we have been forced to find new ways to stay active. Are these new methods making us think we can live without gyms? Or is isolated training helping us realise that they offer more than just a place to exercise?
INTERVIEW: ‘Six out of 10’… Manchester Mayor Burnham unsure about Tory budget’s benefits for North West
Giving new Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget “six out of ten”, GM Mayor Andy Burnham has expressed concerns that the budget was “a little high on rhetoric and a little bit low on delivery”.
Looking at Manchester through ‘rose-tinted glasses’: MM meet artist S L Scott
Artist Sue Scott, better known as S L Scott, has been painting Manchester for almost a decade using her spare room in Didsbury as a makeshift studio.
‘I believe I’ve got the talent’: Stockport’s Nathan Aspinall chats to MM about his dual top dog darts ambition
From 500/1 shot to 25/1, Stockport darts sensation Nathan Aspinall gets his World Championship campaign underway this evening as he takes on Danny Baggish under the lights of Alexandra Palace.
General Election 2019: Labour’s Navendu Mishra wins Stockport seat with reduced majority compared to Ann Coffey
Stockport has stuck with Labour this general election, beating the second-place Conservative candidate by over 10,000 votes.
Interview: On the campaign trail with… Labour’s Denton and Reddish candidate Andrew Gwynne
Denton and Reddish has traditionally been staunchly Labour, with Andrew Gwynne steering the ship since 2005. He has also served in the Shadow Cabinet under various guises: most recently, as Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. MM’s Anna Staufenberg caught up with him just ahead of the most important General Election in years…
General Election 2019: Meet the Stockport candidates
Labour’s Ann Coffey won the seat in 2017 with a 34.9% majority, with 26,282 votes, up 13.4% from the previous election in 2017.
‘A call to arms’: Better Buses demands a transport system that works for everyone
Last Friday’s final consultation on whether Greater Manchester’s buses should be returned to public authority control was extremely convincing.