Crewe have lost five of their last six and, just two points off the relegation zone, are mired in a battle for their League One survival as Oldham seek to pull clear of the lower part of the table.

Think you found the perfect spot to watch this morning’s solar eclipse? Well think again because passengers on a flight from Manchester Airport were given a spectacular view of the natural phenomenon.

Van Gaal, who is 63 years old, says his age and spending more time with his family are the two pressing reasons for his retirement once he leaves Manchester United.

Hugo Porcher, 5, from Norfolk, was diagnosed with an optic nerve glioma brain tumour in October 2013 and began chemotherapy treatment when he was just three years old.

Bury kept their fifth clean sheet in six games away at York City midweek, a run that has coincided with them collecting 15 of a possible 18 points.

Certain religions are encouraging child abuse in the belief it will ‘get the devil out of them’, according to a support worker working alongside Manchester academics to establish the link.

Kieran Turner-Dave, Green candidate for Manchester Central, told MM that something needed to be done in light of the smog that is set to descend on the UK from Europe.

Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the coalition’s final budget earlier this week which included raised income tax allowances however, not everyone was pleased with Mr Osborne’s ‘roof fixing’.

Bolton have two wins out of two this season against Wigan, having ran out 3-1 winners at the Macron Stadium in November which spelled the end of Uwe Rosler’s reign less than a week later.

After speaking to dozens upon dozens of people, most notably former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and the Pirate Party’s Loz Kaye, to get their views on the drugs legalisation debate, MM lays bare the truths of these conversations.

Manchester has shown that integration is ‘possible’ and that other European countries should follow the city’s ‘successful’ model, according to the president of the Socialist and Democratic group in the EU, after his visit to the North West.