Bury suffered defeat at home to Cheltenham in League Two on Saturday while neighbours Bolton also fell at the first hurdle, losing 3-0 to Watford in the Championship.

The Shakers face Cheltenham at home on Saturday for their opening game, Bury’s 4-1 victory the last time the teams met in August 2013 still fresh in the mind.

Manchester’s Soccer ProFormance Academy is on the lookout for the next Class of ‘92 as they hold free trials for promising young footballers at their Whitefield centre in Bury this August.

The brutal attack on the 35-year-old took place at 2.30am Monday July 21 on Gawthorpe Close in Bury.

Bury Tandem Club for the Visually Impaired will ride through the night from Manchester Velodrome to the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, which was inspired by the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

Two men were seen inflicting damage to over thirty vehicles after police were first alerted to the vandals jumping on a car in Lowther Road at about 6.30am on Saturday July 5.

Manchester City’s cousins from Down Under – after Melbourne Heart were rebranded last month – are holding a 17-day training camp in the UK before returning to Australia for their FFA Cup clash against Sydney FC.

Two men were set upon by a gang of 20 men as they walked down a Bury road on Saturday evening – even being battered with a brick and baseball bat as they defenceless on the floor.

Concerns are growing for a missing 75-year-old Oldham woman suffering from severe dementia and Alzheimer’s after it’s believed she may have travelled to Manchester or further.

Dennis Whitfield, 66, managed to swindle £244,000 from eight clients through a variety of ‘manipulative’ stories, even going so far as to tell one victim he was using the money to buy her expensive medication to fight cancer.

A Freedom of Information request from the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) revealed that in 2010-11 the number of fares issued stood at 226, with five fewer in 2011-12