While CAP didn’t gain any seats at Thursday’s council elections, recently appointed party leader Michael Moulding is ready to push ahead with plans to get Wigan city status and break from Greater Manchester.

Labour took two wards from the Conservatives and one from Liberal Democrats in the council elections.

Happy Mondays star Bez explained that fracking is the biggest challenge that the country has faced since the Second World War.

There could be tough times ahead for Wigan ward, Ince, according to re-elected Labour candidate James Moodie, who stormed to a fourth consecutive victory.

After the council became a ‘Tory-free zone’ back in 2012, Labour finished off their other main rivals to take all of the 32 wards as the Liberal Democrats surrendered their nine seats with 95 out of 96 seats now held by Labour and just one by Independent Labour councillor Henry Cooper..

The new Failsworth West councillor Warren Bates was voted in with a slim 132 majority ahead of Labour incumbent John Battye who received 988 votes.

Liberal Democrat candidate for Castleton, Anthony Smith, believes Brit’s should leave the country if UKIP start taking seats in Parliament.

Claremont Conservative candidate Bob Goodall has insisted that the UKIP election push will not cause Labour’s grip on the ward to slip – and that his party are not to blame for the protest vote.

Trafford Council Leader Sean Anstee has urged young voters to join him for a pint as he battles for the Bucklow-St-Martins seat.

Voters in Salford, Greater Manchester did a double take when they were asked to place their vote in a green 20 feet long crate normally used to ship cargo overseas

A controversial UK Independence Party (UKIP) poster has been vandalised in Salford by branding party leader Nigel Farage a ‘lying motherfucker’.