Commuter Eugene passes the Turing Test

Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed a test, which requires that a computer dupes thirty...

Holocaust survivor Meyer Hersh , who settled in Manchester, dies at the age of...

The Holocaust survivor Meyer Hersh who came to live in Manchester after the Second World War, has died at the age of ninety. Hersh, who...

Rotarians’ recipe for tech success

If you love food but find computers a recipe for disaster, a group of local Rotarians has cooked up a solution.  The three former professionals...

Oh Pity Reddish South

A new book, Britain's forgotten railway stations, is highlighting one of Manchester's gems Reddish South. Writing in today's Daily Telegraph, Dixe Wills lists Reddish as...

Bravery Award young sisters visit police horse and dog unit

Two young sisters who were given a Chief Constable’s bravery award for calling 999 when their mum suffered a seizure while driving have been...

Four Royal Northern College students given chance on pioneering programme

Four Royal Northern College of Music vocal students have been accepted onto the 2014/15 Genesis Sixteen young artists’ scheme. The scheme is the UK’s first...

Memorial for Inspector Ray Codling twenty five years on from his murder

Twenty five years ago this week, Inspector Ray Codling was undertaking routine patrol duty at the Westbound Birch Services on the M62 motorway when...

Searching for the stars of World War Two films

THE North West Film Archive are looking for WW2 veterans who appeared in the famous “Calling Blighty” films of 1944 and 1945. Calling Blighty was...

Chapple named as new Lancashire coach

Glen Chapple has been confirmed as acting head coach at Lancashire following Ashley Giles' move to Warwickshire with Mark Chilton appointed as Acting Assistant...

Lucy Powell joins the exodus and walk out of Corbyn Shadow Cabinet

Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell has become one of eleven shadow cabinet ministers to quit Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet as the crisis following Thursday's...