Five Live signs Freddie Flintoff for new podcast
BBC Radio 5 live has signed former Lancashire and England all rounder Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff to host a new podcast as the station launches...
Pendlebury’s 96 year old Joseph Thomas receives France’s highest honour
Ninety six year old Joseph Thomas, who helped liberate southern France as a teenager, has received France’s highest honour this lunchtime.
In a ceremony at...
I think I’m getting more political as I get older
'I am a Socialist' says playwright and folk singer Lizzie Nunnery. " and if there is one good thing about the rise of Corbynism then...
“I deeply regret what happened” says “Boob job cop” who keeps he job at...
The Greater Manchester Police Chief who mocked a colleague over her "boob Job" will be allowed to keep her job.
A disciplinary panel ruled the...
Former Manchester student is nominated for an Oscar-for the second time
Orlando von Einsiedel, a former Anthropology student of The University of Manchester, has been nominated for an Oscar in the short documentary category -...
Speaker Bercow is University’s Honourable Politics Professor
The speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow MP has been appointed as an Honorary Professor of Politics by The University of Manchester's...
Manchester’s Radical campaigner Betty Tubbs dies at 98
The Activist Betty Tebbs, who led women in the first strike for equal pay at a Bury mill, has died at the age of...
Councillor Kev to stand down
Manchester's City Centre Labour Councillor Kevin Peel has announced that he will not be standing for re-election in 2018.
Peel was the the first Labour...
Eamonn Boylan will be recommended as Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
The first ever Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will be Eamonn Boylan the current Stockport Chief Executive
Boylan began his career in...
Lying Criminals Crocodile tears put Manchester Linguist in the spotlight
Manchester Linguist Professor Dawn Archer has been making media waves after she appeared in a documentary analysing lying criminals and their crocodile tears.
The two-part...