Two Salford dog wardens worked through the night to help rescue animals trapped inside the blaze at Manchester Dogs Home – despite having to be on shift at 8am this morning.

The world could be wiped out by an asteroid at any point and we are not taking the threat seriously, according to Oldham Professor and former D-ream member Brian Cox

Greater Manchester Police have swapped truncheons for trombones as their band have provided the general public with numbers from Frank Sinatra and Shirley Bassey over the years.

Film Hub North West has secured a massive £51,100 grant from the British Film Institute (BFI) to take part in Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season this autumn.

Tameside Council plan a complete rebuild of the current station and will move it closer to the new Metrolink tram stop and teaming up with the redesigned train station to form a ‘transport hub’ by the end of 2017.

Luke Hupton has written, directed and produced 27 Memory Lane, a ‘whimsical but dark northern fairy-tale’, thanks to backing from Kickstarter and Mark Dunnett, song-writer for the Oprah Winfrey Show.

The charity’s findings also showed that 3.8million working families from across the UK could not pay their rent or mortgage from their savings for more than a month if they lost their job

BBC3 television channel is to close – with shows to air solely online via iPLayer from August 2015.

Nurseries Estate Home Watch Association is lobbying Greater Manchester MPs

Professor Fanni Bogdanow one of 100,000 Jewish children rescued by the UK

The council has issued 825 certificates for cycle-to-work scheme