Man-chester v food: Celebrity chef Simon Rimmer hosts Stockport’s PIE-normous eating challenge
Contestants will have fifteen minutes to eat four gut-busting pies
Mental health cuts fury: Unison campaigners plan Stockport protest as health chiefs promise reinvestment
Mental health services are facing proposed £650,000-worth of cuts
Stockport journalist’s petition calling for Daily Mail to ‘stop sexualising children’ hits 17,000 signatures in hours
Owen Jones, a columnist for the Independent,
‘It will be gruelling’: Ricky Hatton reveals cycling death mountain La Mont Blanc may be tougher than fighting
Former boxing world champion will take on the 140km route to raise funds for Barnabus, a charity that provides shelter to Manchester’s homeless.
‘Not good enough’: Gender inequality in Greater Manchester politics and lack of female councillors
Across Greater Manchester’s ten boroughs, figures for the number of female councillors compared to male leave a lot to be desired
A film of biblical proportions: Stockport film director scoops prize for futuristic take on Jonah and the whale
Aurora Fearnley won top prize in The Pitch
Mother of Manchester soldier stabbed to death in nightclub scuffle on squaddie holiday breaks down at inquest
David Collins, 18, was set to fly out to Afghanistan the day after he was killed
French town bombed during WW1 raise glass of specially-brewed beer to thank Stockport for rebuilding homes
Haybes was bombed and burnt down, killing 60 people
‘These evil games are ruining my life’: Stockport gambler on mission to get HIMSELF banned from all UK bookies
Radical move in bid to curb ‘high-stakes’ addiction
Heaton Moor’s Death Cafe: Party where guests talk about ‘life’s last taboo’ set for inaugural meeting
The Moor Club set to play host
What’s your secret? ‘Highly successful’ Manchester adoption drive gives loving homes to 50% more children
Tameside, Trafford and Stockport have teamed up with Cheshire East