TV weatherman Fred Talbot has received a five year prison sentence after being found guilty of two counts of indecent assault.

Greater Manchester Police have apologised to more than 40 vulnerable girls across Rochdale and Heywood after failing to realise the extent of child sexual exploitation in the area.

The winner of the Birth Rites Bi-Annual Award will receive a residency at the Women’s Art Library in London, and the winning piece will be included in The Birth Rites Collection.

Oldham Athletic interim manager Dean Holden has warned his players not to get too ‘emotionally involved’ when they face former boss Lee Johnson’s new side Barnsley on Saturday.

A 64-year-old drugs smuggler, who risked his life swallowing 300g of cocaine, is handed a four-year jail sentence after being detained at Manchester Airport.

Man City midfielders Fernando and Fernandinho tried their hands at blind football and sitting volleyball, along with 30 students from Crossacres Primary School in Wythenshawe on Thursday.

Agender promotes a ‘genderless’ approach to clothing, one which explores the free play of gender performance and ‘blurs’ the male-female dichotomy.

Bury manager David Flitcroft is optimistic about bouncing back this weekend against Mansfield Town, especially as his team – at one stage without a decent training setup which he feared would plague them – have taken to their new facility.

Placebo’s Manchester O2 Apollo set-list of oldies-but-goodies like Infra-Red and Every You Every Me and soon-to-be classics from their 2013 album Loud Like Love was never going to disappoint.

Super League 2014 grand finalists Wigan were beaten in convincing fashion at Castleford Tigers last weekend and coach Shaun Wane insists his side must show their true grit in order to get back to winning ways.

Darren Orrett, 32, died after being stabbed in the neck by his ex-girlfriend, Dawn Barr, at her house in Cheadle on November 20 2012.