The cheek! Thieves swipe drugs off COPS as £20K-worth of police property nabbed
FOI results highlighting attempted thefts from GMP in 2013 and 2014
Stress forces Greater Manchester firefighters to take almost 6,000 days off
The number of days the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) has lost to stress totals 5,981 over the last three years, with the total sky-rocketing from 2013 onwards.
Plans for Ardwick park are ‘attack on working class’ turning city into ‘Greychester’
Campaigners call for Manchester City Council to rethink their development project for Ardwick’s Gartside Gardens to turn park land into properties
Paying GPs to spot dementia won’t tackle dismal diagnosis rates, warns health boss
Senior Manchester health official brands paying NHS doctors to diagnose dementia ‘politically motivated’ and says it ‘raises ehtical considerations’
Manchester’s ‘lost generation of cooks’ learn to eat healthy and Love Food Hate Waste
Greater Manchester’s ‘lost generation of cookers’ are being given a nudge back into the kitchen as part of the Love Food Hate Waste campaign
Floods ‘bring most misery to poor areas’ but Manchester experts vow to stem the tide
Manchester Metropolitan University expert is warning that poorer areas are often the most affected by flooding as Britain faces wettest winter in 30 years
Run, rabbit, run! £2.2m wildlife grant for Manchester to Liverpool nature corridors
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside are the winners of a £2.2million Heritage Lottery Fund grant for their Great Manchester Wetlands: A Carbon Landscape project
Ex-Wigan rugby star hanged himself just four days after fiancée called off wedding
A former Wigan Rugby League player who was planning to marry hanged himself just four days after his bride-to-be broke off their engagement, an inquest heard.
Devolution will boost Manchester’s healthcare, says senior doctor
Devolution to the region will deliver massive benefits to health and social care – including the diagnosis and treatment of dementia – according to a senior Manchester health official.
Heart disease deaths plunge across Greater Manchester… yet ‘fight far from over’
Avoidable deaths from cardiovascular disease has dropped across Greater Manchester, but the figures are still shockingly high, reveals the Office of National Satistics
Child poverty charity makes Christmas about more than survival for Manchester’s kids
Manchester charity Wood Street Mission is launching their 2014 Christmas appeal with the message ‘Christmas should be about more than survival’ in a bid to help more than 4,000 children and their families this festive season