Manchester is in the top-five worst-affected areas for honour crimes in the UK – and Cosmopolitan are tackling the issue with a proposed day of memory for victims.

The Canal Street festival, the Village People Weekend, will see the great and the good from Manchester’s most celebrated LGBT postcode turn out to have some bank holiday fun and raise some money for HIV charities.

Band’s charity cover of Don Fardon’s George Best-inspired 70s hit Belfast Boy will be backed by the band’s own ode to the football hero Georgie (The Brightest Star)

Russell Selby, Mark Phillips and Jake Mellor are eight months into the charity fundraiser challenge

A-level student Harry Dubois collapsed while watching TV at home and died earlier this month

A Mottram charity set up in memory of a tragic Manchester tot are aiming to raise £1million in his 23 months’ lifetime – and have been handed a boost from holiday firm to help them on their way.

Stephen Sutton’s fundraising page smashed the £1m target this morning

Festival goers attended the Sale Bicycle Festival with all proceeds going to the charity Simply Cycling, who modify bikes for disabled people.

The city’s most glamorous women will battle it out to be crowned Miss Manchester at the Palace Hotel next Thursday

Bez’s bees residing on top of Manchester’s Printworks now have some company – as a clutch of chickens are the latest edition to the roof-top menagerie.

The charity’s findings also showed that 3.8million working families from across the UK could not pay their rent or mortgage from their savings for more than a month if they lost their job