The life-saving vaccine is currently available privately, but Manchester meningitis ambassador Christine Etheridge, whose son Ben contracted the disease in 2004 when he was just three, believes it should be provided by the NHS.

Greater Manchester Police’s initiative to Bin the Blade is a success as more than 1,500 weapons are removed from the city’s streets in a month-long amnesty.

Only 1200 people in Manchester are signed up the blood stem cell donor register. In response to those statistics, Delete Blood Cancer UK have launched a new campaign to increase the numbers of donors.

Plans to build a £15million Margaret Thatcher museum would be ‘utterly insensitive’ given the ‘harsh’ austerity measures being imposed on the ‘bottom end of society’, argues a Manchester campaigner.

Gorton-based West End AFC girls’ team are appealing for the public’s help to raise £6,000 to get their team to France to defend their Challenge Des Etoiles tournament title.

Manchester Metropolitan University professor Cathy Urquhart – who launched an online petition against the spikes last weekend – revealed to MM that there could be up to two protests across the weekend and early next week.

Like 72% of the UK, the team at MM are suckers for love so we’ve decided to pucker up for charity and take part Ladbrokes Bingo’s #EverlastingKiss social media campaign to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

The chair of a Manchester transgender discussion group has praised national charity Stonewall for its decision to finally start campaigning for the trans community.

A Manchester activist is encouraging people to donate their pillows to people sleeping rough in a fight against Selfridges’ controversial installation of ‘anti-homeless’ spikes outside their city-centre store.

Scope’s Kiss the awkward Goodbye campaign uses tongue-in-cheek Valentine’s Day cards to highlight that there is no need to be awkward around someone just because they have a disability.

Stalking and murder victim Katie Boardman’s sister speaks out on the importance of taking stalking more seriously and education for unaware victims in light of new online campaign.