Unsung Manchester heroes you should know about this International Women’s Day

St Ann’s Hospice are celebrating the women that have founded and continue to grow their charity this International Women’s Day. Barbara Thackray is a nearly 86-year-old...

Wigan Patient with rare cancer inspires nurse’s marathon challenge

Paul Walker, a 45-year-old from Standish in Wigan has stage four cancer. He’s currently having chemotherapy and is taking on the London Marathon for the...

Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd is appointed Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary

MP for Rochdale Tony Lloyd, a former police and crime commissioner for Greater Manchester has been appointed as Shadow Nothern Ireland Secretary by Jeremy...

Fallen war hero has street named in his honour

A new Tameside street has been named in honour of a local soldier killed in action in Afghanistan. The family and friends of Harvey Holmes...

Christmas comes early for 98 year old William

Christmas came early this year for William Jakeman, a resident at New Care’s Ashlands Manor Care Centre in Sale, who was treated to an...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed as permanent Man Utd manager on three-year deal

Manchester United have announced that current caretaker manager and former striker, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, has been appointed as the club’s full-time manager on a...

Alan Turing to be the image of the new £50 note

Making the announcement at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney also revealed the imagery...

He will have to live with the responsibility for the rest of his life

The teenager who stabbed his friend Yousef Makki  to death in Hale will turn 18 this week and has revealed his identity to the...

Family pay tribute to fabulous son, brother, a proud father and Grandfather Gary

The family of a man who died in a road traffic collision on the M602 a week ago have paid tribute to him. 61-year-old Gary...

North West Ambulance Paramedic dies from Covid 19

A paramedic who worked for the North West Ambulance Service has died after contracting COVID-19. The paramedic, whose family has asked not to be named,...