Nothing Else Matters: DJ Danny Howard sets his sights on reviving UK dance music… starting in Manchester
BBC Radio One DJ comes to Manchester’s Gorilla
Baking Bad: Two filthy Oldham bakeries prosecuted after mouse droppings, moths and grime found in storage areas
Two Oldham prosecuted were fined
It’s not too late: Campaign urges one in 40 Salfordians affected by irreversible lung disease to look for signs
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is irreversable
What the hell just happened?! The Lumineers catch breath to discuss whirlwind year ahead of Manchester gig
The Lumineers’ vocalist and cellist Neyla Pekarek takes stock
Rescue mission to typhoon-hit Philippines as Manchester charity teams up with UNICEF and Oxfam
Human Appeal has sent teams to Cebu and Bohol
He’s making a list and checking it twice! Disney Store makes cuddly toy pledge to Manchester children’s hospital
For every letter that is posted in-store they will donate a cuddly toy to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Main influences? Love, anger and dreams…oh and Jack Daniels: Cage The Gods to headline Deaf Institute
MM Caught up with bassist Mitch and guitarist Jam
Rugby League World Cup blog: England face a simple task in semi-finals – improve or fail
‘Big Four’ battle it out this weekend for place in final
Everyone’s worst nightmare: Oldham woman wakes to find night-time intruder in home – who then rapes her
The intruder broke into a home in the Hollins Road area
Littered with mistakes: Former United boss Sir Alex Ferguson under fire over autobiography errors
Fan wrote to publisher over glut of errors
It’s got to go! Defiant seller of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’ kitchen table relists item despite criticism
Ian Curtis’ family criticised the selling of the table as ‘distasteful’