Manchester-based Bradley Wiggins backs Chris Froome ahead of World Championship road race title tilt
Relations strained between Wiggins and Froome this year
Manchester’s Tyson Fury goads David Haye after highly-anticipated boxing battle rescheduled for new year
Haye and Fury will clash on February 8
The final length: Stockport’s Double Commonwealth champion swimmer James Goddard announces retirement
Goddard made the announcement on Twitter
Battle of the soaps: Coronation Street edge out Emmerdale in Manchester charity netball match
Team Corrie edged out Emmerdale 33-28
Crime wave (goodbye): Rochdale’s burglary, violent crime and robbery rates fall
Report reveals some crimes fell by more than 21%
Suarez in, van Persie out: Manchester United without star as Liverpool talisman returns for cup clash
United clash with old foes Liverpool in the Capital One Cup
Wigan Athletic boss claims Manchester City’s ‘elite £200million squad’ ensured 5-0 demolition
Owen Coyle believes Wigan were up against the world’s elite squad
David Moyes ready to ‘take more blows’ as Manchester United struggle to adapt to life under new boss
Moyes expects rocky road ahead
‘Only the blind say no to me’: Conor Maynard on girls, hating One Direction and reveals… his girlfriend
Pop sensation Conor Maynard reveals all in exclusive interview with MM
Is it a zebra? Is it cocaine? No, it’s an Ancoats art mural about Manchester’s industrial heritage… apparently
Chris Edmunds’ art appears like lines of cocaine to some