There’s plenty to do with the kids in Manchester this weekend, so MM gives you the lowdown on some of the best options.

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital has launched an appeal to secure a new scanning suite that will revolutionise brain surgery at the hospital.

City in the Community has launched its first all blue colour run to help give 50,000 Manchester kids a better shot at life this year.

Renowned poet Lemn Sissay MBE has enough African spirit in him to encourage Retrak in completing their ultimate goal of a world without street children.

After watching the news and reading stories of the desperate migrant situation in Calais, a Mobberley teacher and mother of four has decided to join the volunteer movement there.

There can’t be many jobs that can inspire joy in most of the people they meet, but wide-eyed terror in others.

A week of Indian cultural events being held to raise money for charity will begin in Manchester on Monday.

A Bolton preschool has turned itself around in record time, jumping from an Ofsted rating of ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’ in just four months.

A group of Manchester teachers and professionals are raising money to launch a school for black minority ethnic and under-privileged children.

A Tameside nursery’s outdoor play area is so dangerous that the welfare and safety of the tots is at ‘significant’ risk, according to Ofsted after an inspection last month.

Two budding Greater Manchester chefs have impressed celebrity Irish cook, Paul Rankin, on route to the final of his competition to crown the UK’s best mini-chef.