The University of Manchester has underscored its status as the world’s leading centre for graphene research, as the first artist’s impression of their new £60million centre has been released.

David De Gea will stay at Manchester United beyond the current transfer window after Real Madrid opted against appealing to FIFA over their paperwork catastrophe.

Manchester United attacking pair Javier Hernandez and Adnan Januzaj will be plying their trade in the Bundesliga this season, after they sealed moves to Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund respectively.

Ashley Giles is excited ahead of Saturday’s T20 Finals Day, and hopes that his Lancashire side can enjoy a ‘dream day’ to banish the memories of last year’s failure.

Manchester’s commuters will soon have to find something new to moan about, as Transport for Greater Manchester have announced that normal Metorlink services will resume at the end of the month.

FC United of Manchester’s first competitive match at Broadhurst Park ended in disappointment last night, as they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Stockport County.

The number of Japanese civilians killed in the Second World War could have been higher had nuclear weapons NOT been deployed by America, a University of Manchester lecturer has claimed.

England under-19 star Alex Davies made his debut in 2012, but has emerged as a Lancashire first team regular in 2015, with first-choice glovesman Jos Buttler now behind the stumps for the national side.

Thieves threw a wheelie bin through the shop window of Timperley Aquatics, and then a fish tank through the glass of the bird’s enclosure, before wrestling ‘Baby’ away – as evidenced by the bird’s tail feathers which were torn out in the struggle.

The 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, which killed 200,000 in 1945 as WWII came to a close, will be commemorated in a service led by The Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Paul Murphy OBE at Manchester Museum on Thursday.

Lancashire boss Ashley Giles had strong words for his men in the wake of their narrow home defeat to Warwickshire in the Royal London One-Day Cup on Sunday.