Greens call for re-joining the EU “as soon as political situation is favourable”

The UK should make a speedy return to the free movement of people between the UK and the European Union and re-join the customs...

Government must act to boost future saving rate and scheme enrolment or risk inadequate...

More than 60% of people are at risk of missing out on an adequate standard of living in retirement1 despite the introduction of auto-enrolment,...

At least 174 dead after riot at Indonesian soccer match

At least 174 people died overnight after police fired tear gas at an Indonesian soccer match to drive away rampaging fans Violence broke out after the...

34 year old charged with Olivia’s murder

Two two men have been charged following the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel on 22 August. Thomas Cashman, 34 years from Grenadier Drive, West Derby,...

Police searching on Saddleworth Moor says no identifiable human remains found so far

Police searching Saddleworth Moor say that they found no sign of identifiable human remains In a statement released this afternoon the force said: Following information received...

Universal credit changes: increasing pressure on part-time workers is the wrong move at the...

Lisa Scullion, University of Salford; Katy Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Sharon Wright, University of Glasgow Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has laid out the government’s “mini...

Energy plans to make Greater Manchester carbon neutral by 2038 agreed

Detailed plans have been agreed for how Greater Manchester will change the way it consumes and produces energy in order to reach net zero...

Police digging on Saddleworth Moor for potential remains of Moors murder victim

Police are digging on Saddleworth Moor after possible human remains were discovered by an author who has been researching the murder of Keith Bennett,...

Reneging on benefits pledge would be “a harmful act of historic pledge

New analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has shown that if the Government chooses to renege on the pledge made in April by...

Manchester Health Chief’s plea avoid Covid and Flu double whammy

Manchester’s public health chief is urging people to take up the Autum Covid booster offer and the flu vaccination to avoid the potential ‘twindemic’...