Speaking ahead of the Fire and Ice Cycle Challenge, the Great Dane revealed he had feared a repeat of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, which left millions stranded

Linus Lind almost doubled his target and could yet treble it, having seen nearly 26,000 Swedish krona (£2,250 approx) flood in: a staggering rate of almost £1 per kilometre cycled.

Alzheimer’s Research UK plans to unite researchers from the University of Manchester with fellow scientists from the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster as part of their £100million Defeat Dementia campaign

Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh will be appearing before Parliament seeking for more funding and awareness of pancreatic cancer – after an e-petition requesting a debate into the disease received over 100,000 signatures.

In the week running up to the Pride Big Weekend, Manchester City Council applied to the Department for Transport for a traffic restraining order (TRO) to restrict access to anyone the streets around the village over Pride

Boogy on down amongst Manchester Museum’s stuffed animal collection in support of The Neuro Foundation,an official charity of the year backed by the University of Manchester’s Equality and Diversity group

Staff from St Mary’s Hospital braved snow-covered peaks and rubble-strewn paths to ascend the 3,407metres of the three highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales

A pedal-pushing pub manager will to cycle to all of Manchester’s 124 Joseph Holt pubs collecting scratch cards to raise money for the new Christie cancer centre later this month.

With an initial target of 10,000 Swedish krona (around £870) for his 1,600-mile journey from Uppsala to Manchester in aid of Doctors Without Borders, FC United of Manchester fan Linus Lind is approaching 20,000 krona.

Encouraged to wear white, participants are invited to get covered head to toe in powder paint whilst raising funds which will help support the local community

Kevan Downey and David Cracknell will scale 8,848 metres, the height of Mount Everest, by repeatedly climbing up a ladder to raise money for the When You Wish Upon A Star foundation