Mayor’s ambitious bed every night scheme claims success

NEW figures reveal hundreds of people previously sleeping rough in Greater Manchester have been helped off the streets and into accommodation as a result...

Manchester Decides: The Social Chain Group launches Interactive Billboard to Help the City’s Homeless

An interactive billboard posed to answer Manchester’s most divisive questions has just been unveiled by The Social Chain Group, in support...

Salford City Mayor welcomes ‘national heroes’

National heroes' who protect residents from the worst effects of poverty have come together in Salford.100 welfare rights advisers from across the...

Burnham calls for Martyn’s Law to be implemented in response to Arena Terror attack

Nearly two years after the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena, a report by Greater Manchester’s Mayor Andy Burnham has recommended that the Government should launch...

Police used unreasonable force when they tasered a Wythenshawe man

Police used "unreasonable and inappropriate" force when they Tasered  a Wythenshawe man who had autism according to a High Court judge. Fifty nine year old...

Funding boost for Greater Manchester’s groundbreaking A Bed Every Night scheme

Greater Manchester’s groundbreaking A Bed Every Night scheme, which is providing accommodation every single night for people sleeping rough in the city-region, has received...

Oldham Council abolishes Library fines

Library fines were abolished at the meeting of Oldham Council’s Cabinet on Monday 22 July. This means that library users will no longer be fined...

GMP welcomes 100 new police officers to its ranks

The new officers were sworn in at an attestation ceremony at Manchester Grammar attended by Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, the Lord Mayor, Councillor Abid...

21 year old pedestrian killed on M56

A 21 year old man has been killed after being hit by a car on the M56 near Sharston in the early hours of...

Greater Manchester to get 347 new Police recruits as Government announces first tranche of...

The Home Office has released details of how the first tranche of new police officers will be allocated to forces in England and Wales...