Manchester’s people and business are being encouraged to become more age-friendly and pledge to increase awareness of the needs of the city’s older citizens by the Lord Mayor himself.

Tom Daley is back diving in his comfort zone and charting exactly the right progress towards Rio next summer, according to Olympic silver medallist Leon Taylor.

Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 crashed into the Alps last Tuesday, killing all 150 passengers and crew.

Police are appealing for a man identified in a CCTV image, who they would like to speak to in relation to a rape in Manchester’s Student Village seven weeks ago, to come forward.

Johnny Leota and Josh Beaumont scored the tries for Sale while Danny Cipriani showed his quality scoring 13 points with the boot in tricky conditions as Sale prevailed 23-6 over Gloucester.

As #EndTamponTax does the rounds on Twitter and the petition ‘Stop taxing periods. Period’ gains more than 200,000 the University of Manchester is looking into ways to make sanitary products cheaper for their female students.

Goals from Rhys Bennett and Jack O’Connell gave Rochdale a 2-1 victory over Yeovil Town on Saturday to put Keith Hill’s men sixth in League One with a game in hand on their closest rivals, only increasing the expectation of promotion surrounding the club.

Captain Tim Phillips insisted King’s School, Macclesfield could still hold their heads up high despite missing out on the top prize at the 76th Rosslyn Park HSBC National Schools Sevens last week.

Three local politicians will come head-to-head when they present their parties’ education manifestos to the public in preparation for May’s general election.

A new, back to basics conference trying to break down the barriers preventing average people from getting engaged with economics is to take place at Manchester University next week.

Manchester Pride is under fire from members of the LGBT community for its increased commercialisation.