Manchester’s anxious, Salford’s unhappy and Rochdale’s unsatisfied with life: Stats say you’ve got to get out to the country to be happy
Happiness ratings revealed
Artist of the week: Stockport painter’s homage to abandoned places sheds light on lost worlds
Anne Aspinall will showcase her talent at Cheshire’s Gorstella gallery
My Big Fat Gypsy Clean-up! Cheshire East Council fear ‘paperwork mountain’ so don’t keep track of six figure costs
Cost of clean-up from travellers moving on is not monitored by council
Motorists stranded on M56 toward Manchester for hours as collision and oil spill closes road – expect delays
Lanes not expected to re-open until 3pm
Drug and alcohol addicts and experts hail UK-first ‘interventionist’ treatment now available for Manchester users
Bill Stevens advocates the alternative therapy
Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow actor Bill Roache ‘vigorously protests innocence’ at five child sex charges
Roache’s lawyer spoke outside Preston Magistrates’ Court
Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow actor Bill Roache charged with five indecent assaults – joining two rape charges
Charges relate to four girls aged 11-16
‘Deeply horrified’ Coronation Street actor Bill Roache vows to fight rape charge – but still cut from show
Roache ‘strenuously denies’ rape claims
Passenger ‘flips out’ and fractures cheekbone of taxi driver in Altrincham following dispute over directions
Man got in taxi at Suburbia night club
Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez escapes prison but given 250 hours community service for driving offences
He appeared at Macclesfield Magistrates’ this morning