Don’t bin it, donate it: that’s the message from Salford Royal today as they launch their new campaign urging 50,000 Salford smokers to hand in their empty packs.

Looking for a challenge, Manchester? How about four of them? A new city-wide charity event is looking for teams to sign up and take on the challenge to raise £400,000 for four charities through four challenges.

If you stumbled across money in the street, would you take it? That’s exactly the dilemma the people of Manchester were faced with when journalists from The Lad Bible set up an experiment in Piccadilly Gardens and filmed the responses.

Get your leads at the ready and pooches get steady as Manchester Dogs’ Home announces their annual ‘Go Walkies’ sponsored event – their first event since the fire that killed 59 dogs.

A cerebral palsy sufferer is set to tackle a 1.5km Swimathon in aid of late Bury teenager Josh Wilson – otherwise known as Super Josh.

Peter James-Robinson, from Radcliffe, heard his brother utter those fateful words as he led in a coma.

The dying art of restoring classic cars is getting a brand new, souped-up engine and much needed paint job thanks to a specialist Manchester mechanics and an apprenticeships charity.

Staff and students at The Manchester College are coming together to raise money to send a student with a rare syndrome to a specialist retreat in America this June.

Geordie Colin Plews is just one of more than 3,000 participants in the Manchester 10k next month – but one of very few who’ll be running the quarter marathon in a dress.

Mystery Mancunian artist Mancsy – a Northern take on the internationally celebrated satirical street painter Banksy – has announced his biggest ever exhibition at Trafford’s Victoria Warehouse.

A giant toilet roll is coming to Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium – and it’s all in the name of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month as it aims to ‘Lift the Lid’ on the fatal disease.