Charity campaigners invited Mancunians to score goals against extreme poverty and preventable diseases, ahead of the Conservative Party Conference coming to Manchester tomorrow.

Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA) have praised the Manchester Airport campaigns to raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

David Dunn is eyeing a first away victory of the season at Gillingham on Saturday, despite the Gills chasing promotion, and boasting a 100% home record so far.

A Sunday League footballer has been jailed for one year after intentionally breaking an opponents leg before verbally abusing him as he was ‘lying in agony on the pitch’.

There will be an ‘exodus of doctors’ from the NHS, if proposed changes to doctors contracts go ahead, a junior doctor in Manchester has said.

NHS Employers cancelled all scheduled meetings, at which junior doctors were hoping to voice their concerns about new contracts, one day before the Manchester meeting was due to take place at the Midland Hotel.

The number of reported sexual offences in schools in Greater Manchester has risen by 54%, according to an FOI released by the GMP.

Four men who broke into a home and threatened a family with axes, leaving them in ‘shock’ and ‘distress’ are being hunted by police.

Six new cycle hubs have been opened at Greater Manchester railway stations, doubling the number of bike parking spaces in the region, as councilors push for Manchester to become a ‘flagship Cycling City’.

The number of deaths in Manchester related to drugs poisoning has soared by 46% while the North West has risen by 28%, making our region the worst in England for an eighth successive year.

The Bishop of Manchester has spoken out against the legalisation of assisted dying, saying that British society should not become one that sees vulnerable people as ‘a burden’.