Dame Sarah Storey, 11-times a paralympic gold medallist in cycling and swimming, is hopeful that a thrilling debut for women’s cycling at the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire will lead to even more integration with men’s tours and road races.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 12 months, you probably don’t need reminding that the General Election takes place this Thursday, May 7th.

A Lancashire-based game designer has taken to Kickstarter in an attempt to help get his video game off the ground.

If you’re fed up of Farage bored, miffed at Miliband and critical of Clegg and Cameron then maybe it’s time to find out about the array of minor parties vying for your vote across Greater Manchester Thursday.

Spitting Image, Private Eye and That Was The Week That Was have all provided comic relief from politics and this year’s race for Number 10 has a given rise to viral satire like never before.

Manchester Friends of the Earth are urging local council and parliamentary candidates to let voters know their views on environmental issues.

A breakdown of the figures released by Manchester City Council this week show that of the 363,005 people are eligible to vote in the local elections, 48,397 people have been registered since December 2014 with 12,014 signed up in the last month alone.

Setting off from All Saint’s Park on June 12, people will be allowed to hang out as bare as they please enjoying music, body painting and other activities before cycling through the city.

Manchester City can all but seal a Champions League qualification spot with victory over Tottenham Hotspur though PFA Young Player of the Year Harry Kane, one behind City’s Sergio Aguero in the chase for Premier League Golden Boot, will be a threat, says Eliaquim Mangala.

Irish band The Riptide Movement played an impromptu gig at Manchester’s Barclay House while the audience donated money to a Nepal earthquake fundraiser on Friday afternoon.

During visit to Bury yesterday, May also defended her record as Home Secretary, pointing to reductions in crime and the launch of investigations into child sexual exploitation.