Two teenage girls were raped in a city centre car park on Saturday, in the middle of the afternoon.

The FIS European Indoor Moguls Championships returned to Manchester last week, with competitors from all over Europe descending on the Chill Factore.

Wigan will hope they have nurtured a new star in the making after they put Fleetwood to bed, continuing their strong home form.

A married couple from Heaton Mersey have been hosting refugees since 1997, when they took in their first asylum seeker.

Manchester blogger and Lord of the Rings fan, Will O’Hara, has spotted links between Metrolink and Middle-earth during his morning commute across Manchester.

On a weekend crammed full of memorable sporting occasions, football let itself down once again.

Kieran Brookes knows there is room for improvement after England’s opening Rugby World Cup victory over Fiji but the prop is adamant that successfully securing a bonus-point triumph means it was mission accomplished.

Oldham’s interim boss David Dunn has insisted there is more work to be done after Latics came away from Doncaster with their first point since the end of August at the weekend.

Manuel Pellegrini reflected on what has been a ‘difficult’ week for his City side, as they conceded their first Premier League goals in 572 minutes in a 2-1 defeat to West Ham.

On Thursday 24 September, The Real Junk Food Project will host Manchester’s premier screening of the multi-award-winning documentary, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, in association with the Northern Quarter’s Wonder Inn.

Don’t Miss A Beat is here to recommend five tracks a week. Rather than being a standard ‘five new tracks you must hear’ it will comprise a selection of music that fall into five categories.