Manchester’s first fully electric buses are set to be sparked into life and will soon be on the city centre streets as part of Metroshuttle’s free hop-on hop-off service.

Oldham MP Michael Meacher has launched a vicious attack on Conservatives after the launch of a website showing criticism of Labour leader Ed Miliband – from his own party.

Two Manchester chefs are bringing fish ‘n’ chips with a large side-order of classic hip hop to the country’s festivalgoers with their mobile ‘Hip Hop Chip Shop’.

Charlton, who described new manager Louis van Gaal as a ‘really clever man’, says this year’s morale-boosting pre-season tour will work wonders on United.

Recent developments in the middle-east have seen a rising death toll and worsening tensions between Israel and Palestinian Gaza.

Michael Adebolajo, 29, who along with Michael Adebowale, 23, was convicted of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby near Woolwich Barracks last year, and both are serving life sentences for the crime

Police are hunting a gunman who blasted the front of a house in Wigan and then fired at two bystanders early this morning.

Honorary lecturer at The University of Manchester Dr David Penney and researcher James E. Jepson at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany are both fellows for the Royal Entomological Society and have studied insect preservation in rock and amber.

RSPCA Manchester and Salford are holding a dog competition in partnership with Dig The City Festival on August 10 at Exchange Square, Manchester city centre.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has slammed David Cameron in a Manchester speech today –branding the Prime Minister ‘not honest’ about his plans to privatise the NHS.

Premier League champions City have their own hardcore faithful in America courtesy of the Pittsburgh Supporters Club