A picture of a callous thief, who snuck into an elderly woman’s car to steal her sat nav moments after she was badly injured in a collision in Hulme, has been released.

A new creative reading initiative to aid dementia sufferers and their families in coping with memory loss will arrive at Central Library next week.

Sad films may be ten-a-penny, but it’s very rare to find one that can hit you right in the gut like this without feeling heavy-handed or overly-manipulative.

Best-selling author, ingenious world creator and solid example of how to be a decent human being, Terry Pratchett, died on Thursday at the age of 66 ‘with his cat sleeping on his bed’.

Senior Manchester health official brands paying NHS doctors to diagnose dementia ‘politically motivated’ and says it ‘raises ehtical considerations’

The funding will help improve clinical sample testing and understanding of basic cell biology, George Osborne announced yesterday

Staff from the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will hit the streets this Sunday as they run The Big Stockport 10k to raise money for dementia care

An Oldham MP shared the struggles of her dementia suffering mother, and encouraged the community to educate themselves on the debilitating disease at a Dementia Friends session.

Manchester carers are being forced to pay ‘dementia tax’ as the tax they already pay to the NHS won’t cover the cost of care if they fall ill, say the Alzheimer’s Society.

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

Joy Watson, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease on her 55th birthday, was joined by her husband Tony and their two dogs Chloe and Artaud at Heaton Park to launch this year’s Alzheimer’s Society’s Manchester Memory Walk, which takes place on Saturday, September 27