Greater Manchester has a rich social history, but did you know that it can boast the title of the city that launched the most celebrated career in British public life?

Mancunian jobseekers will be handed free bikes to help them to get back on the job ladder by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).

Ofsted’s recognition of the University of Manchester’s (UoM) Teach First programme as ‘outstanding’ has been described as ‘extremely pleasing’ by the director of the scheme.

Mecca Bingo is searching for the longest-married couple ahead of Valentine’s Day.

The French Prime Minister’s comments saying that migration poses a ‘great risk’ to the EU have been described as ‘frustrating’ by a Manchester charity.

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has fired back at Lib Dem Leader Andy Kelly after the councillor labelled him a ‘hypocrite of the highest order’.

January 25 is Burns Night, the anniversary of the birth of Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns, Scottish poet and revolutionary.

Chadderton pensioners are catching the computer bug, after Age UK Oldham and Oldham Council united to provide them technology classes.

A £2million training centre with in-house accommodation is to be created in Salford for young people with unstable living arrangements.

A Stockport care home has been slammed for being unsafe and inadequate, just five months after it was given a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

A care home in Greater Manchester has slipped from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘inadequate’ within six months after an inspection in October by the Care Quality Commission.