At MM we decided we would spend International Older Person’s Day choosing our top five elderly Mancunians – after much debate, here’s our list!

Ageing experts at the University of Manchester are trying to prevent thousands of injuries each year and save the NHS more than £2billion a year, for International Day of Older Persons.

Thousands of young people from all over the world have descended on Greater Manchester to embark on their journey into higher education and join the city’s population of almost 350,000 students.

Students living in private halls of residence on central Manchester’s Chester Street pay £648 more to insure their cars than students living just a four minute drive away, MM can reveal.

Manchester has been shortlisted for European Youth Capital, becoming the first UK city to make the list.

Manchester students are almost twice as likely as other tenants to face deductions in their deposits, according to figures from the Deposit Protection Service.

A Masters student is in critical condition after being left for dead by a hit-and-run black cab driver in the early hours of the morning last weekend.

Syrian refugees talk of their ‘dangerous journey’ to the UK, ‘blessed refuge in Manchester’ and thoughts on UK migration policy, as they feature in a new documentary showing the lives of Syrian refugee families living in the city.

A University of Manchester professor is urging the city’s cyclists to join in the Manchester to Blackpool Night Ride to raise funds for the British Heart Foundation on September 26.

The Bishop of Manchester has spoken out against the legalisation of assisted dying, saying that British society should not become one that sees vulnerable people as ‘a burden’.

The 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, which killed 200,000 in 1945 as WWII came to a close, will be commemorated in a service led by The Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Paul Murphy OBE at Manchester Museum on Thursday.