A talented young entrepreneur from Oldham has earned the chance to pitch his baking business to star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones CBE.

A masked gang who raided a post office in Wigan armed with crowbars and a knife are being tracked down by police.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 17-year-old boy was robbed at knifepoint in Eccles.

Oldham Council has helped to take down a Russian crime gang who are believed to have been selling fake CDs, documentation and computers.

Looking for a challenge, Manchester? How about four of them? A new city-wide charity event is looking for teams to sign up and take on the challenge to raise £400,000 for four charities through four challenges.

There’s not much room for epic journeys in and around Manchester – but don’t worry, because THE epic quest is coming to the city.

Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has come out all guns blazing in his Mirror column, claiming that the Conservative Party have ‘got away with murder’ during their time in power.

In what is actually a fairly uninspiring and tepid episode Thrones continues to stumble towards its season finale.

Emma Timmis and Emily Pitts already four days into a trek with a difference – skating the 120 miles from Overdinkel on the eastern border with Germany to Ijmuiden on the west coast of the country.

The Sexhibition Expo will be hitting the streets of Manchester to showcase some of the world’s well known sex industry names and businesses this summer.

Clermont Auvergne full-back and European Champions Cup player of the year Nick Abendanon plus Toulon forward Steffon Armitage, who won the accolade last year, did not get a look in for the 50-man World Cup training squad, something Mark Cueto has little sympathy for.