Sunday saw the culmination of the first-ever NBL season with four teams, including Macclesfield’s Matthew Nottingham’s Surrey Smashers, vying for the chance to lift the trophy.

Sam Groth, the world number 72, defeated compatriot Luke Saville 7-5 6-1 in a sell-out final that lasted just 62 minutes at The Northern Lawn Tennis Club in Didsbury.

A Manchester expert has claimed that more research needs to be done into finding treatments for schizophrenia that don’t add to the likelihood of sufferers dying prematurely.

Manchester’s shopping and eating district is launching a new monthly market later in June and the first event is to feature a Lego Walk to raise money for the Christie.

A Manchester fitness expert thinks that campaigns such as Women’s Sports Week is the perfect time for more women to celebrate and champion their right to participate in and benefit from sports.

The footage, filmed on a mobile phone at Manchester Airport on Thursday, shows a man of Asian heritage with a thick black beard being restrained on the floor by a female police officer as three members of airport security assist her.

Aimee Pratt, 17, was recently crowned the top athlete in England in her age group, and leapt onto the global scene at the Loughborough International Athletics meeting on May 17.

The inaugural Manchester International Film Festival 2015 is fast approaching and its full line-up has just been released.

After spending time in the US in the wake of their extraordinary success with 2012’s Bones, Young Guns had returned to Manchester as part of their UK tour – in philosophical, yet emphatic style.

Konstantin Kravchuk, the 30-year-old Russian, edged past Australia’s Matthew Ebden 7-6 4-6 7-5 in the quarter-finals and will now go on to face Luke Saville at The Northern Lawn Tennis Club.

Manchester city centre will host ten days of free cycling events starting on Friday June 5 and ending on Sunday June 14.