An LGBT charity has backed calls from a Manchester City Council report to improve services available to victims of domestic abuse in same-sex relationships.

Domestic abuse victims will be united tonight at a candlelit vigil in remembrance of their fellow victims who died at the hands of their partners.

An actress who starred in a series of Manchester theatre productions whilst secretly hiding a string of beatings from her violent fiance went public today to reveal how she helped put him in jail.

The government’s Universal Credit scheme could cause a rise in domestic and financial abuse, claim grassroots groups following Deven Ghelani’s talk at Manchester Policy Week

A deaf and mute girl – who was trafficked into the country aged ten and was repeatedly raped and forced to do domestic chores by her Eccles-based captors – has been awarded more than £100,000 in compensation.

A Manchester woman who sufferers ‘horrific’ hallucinations and was subjected to physical and mental abuse as a child is attempting to show what living in her body is really like… through music.

More needs to be done in Manchester to encourage people of domestic abuse to come forward from the LGBT community, according to a panel of the city’s representatives.

In the run-up to Pride’s Big Weekend, Greater Manchester Police are inviting members of the LGBT community to join them in a panel discussion on domestic abuse on Monday August 18.

Meet the Neighbours is the brainchild of family solicitor Laura Hitchen, from WTB Solicitors LLP,who specialises in cases involving domestic violence.

Domestic abuse offenders are more likely to be successfully prosecuted in the North West than anywhere else in the country, claims to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Forcing someone into marriage is now a criminal offence