Prime Minister David Cameron weighed into the TV debates saga by saying he will not take part unless the Greens are involved, while Ofcom dismissed their status as a ‘major party’.

Manchester has the lowest smoking quit rate in Britain, an NHS report has found.

Ed Miliband’s call to students to make sure they are registered to vote, has been backed by a Labour Parliamentary candidate for Manchester.

A pervert accountant who used a mirror to peer up women’s skirts as they shopped for designer clothes is thought to be the first person in the UK to be banned from carrying ANY reflective object in public.

League Two Bury have prided themselves on developing young English talent and remain in the promotion hunt, sitting 13 points behind leaders and Saturday’s opponents Wycombe, despite lacking their own training facilities.

Class-A drug abuse occurred in a city-centre takeaway during the early hours of this morning, to the shock of party-goer witnesses.

The 34-year old who was in debt due to her love of socialising illegally pocketed double the child tax credits and working tax credits she was entitled to when she moved in with a partner who was in full-time employment.

A Manchester councillor has accused half the British cabinet of tax avoidance during a council meeting this week.

A teenager who started performing the Gangnam-Style in a corner shop was killed by an Asian boy who perceived his dancing as ‘racist’, Manchester Crown Court heard today.

Britain has a ‘victim blaming culture’ and a judge’s claims that a schoolgirl ‘groomed’ her teacher into having sex only makes it worse, says a leading child sex abuse charity chief.

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk yesterday laid down a bouquet of white flowers outside Parliament in memory of victims of child abuse.