Police seize £20K of illegal vapes and issue warning

Police in Bolton and the Council’s Licensing and Trading Standards services have seized 2800 suspected illegal vapes. The vapes, estimated to be worth £20,000, were...

Manchester: going the ‘extra mile’ with a £750,000 investment to expand the local gas...

Major work starts soon to extend Manchester’s underground gas network by around one mile to meet rising energy demand as the city grows. Engineers will...

Greater Manchester libraries launch new initiative to help local people start their own businesses

Greater Manchester libraries are introducing a new initiative that aims to help people across the city region launch their own start-up businesses. The Big Ideas...

New ‘levelling up’ research predicts ‘Northern brain drain’ of younger generation

Nearly half  of 16–21-year-olds in the North expect to move from their area of whom 44% are seeking better employment prospects and 40% expect...

300,000 children hit in NW by public sector pay cap

Region’s children one of the worst hit in the country by ‘cruel’ Government pay pinch Shocking new figures from GMB, the union for public sector...

Greater Manchester’s Fire service propose additional fire engines and two new enhanced rescue stations...

GREATER Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is inviting the public to share their views on a series of proposals that would see an increase...

Have you seen 74-year-old Geoffrey Ralph who has been missing for four days?

  Geoffrey was last seen near to his home on Arbroath Street in Droylsden at around 2pm on Monday 24 July. He is white, of slim...

Trafford Park Vape manufacturer fined after worker lost two fingers and a thumb

vape liquid manufacturing company in Manchester has been fined after a worker lost two fingers and a thumb while clearing a blockage in a...

Olympic medalist Katie Archibald joins up with Manchester charity platform Wonderful.org

Fundraising platform, Wonderful.org, has today announced that Olympic cyclist Katie Archibald MBE and Team WNT are backing the organisation’s inaugural fundraising event ‘The Wonderful...

Final jigsaw piece in transformation of Wigan Town Centre is approved

Wigan Council have approved the final stage of its masterplan to revamp the Town Centre The council’s planning committee approved plans for a new multi-function cinema...