As Manchester gets used to the idea of being earmarked as the centre of a ‘Northern Powerhouse’, Chancellor George Osborne has been busy outlining his vision for a metropolitan reform.

Rochdale Hedgehog Rescue Society speak to MM about the plummeting population of hedgehogs around Greater Manchester and give advice as to what residents can do to help preserve the species.

Greater Manchester is set to have a directly elected mayor who will preside over regional issues, George Osborne has announced.

A Manchester mother-of-nine speaks out on being wrongly treated as a suspect by detectives during a secret 17-month investigation in the death on her 11-month-old baby Heidi

The Greater Manchester side go into the game with the second best home record in the league, with six wins from seven outings.

Rochdale’s leading ghost walker is hosting a special treacherous tour of the haunted town for Halloween

Greater Manchester’s troubled families are having their lives turned around by a new government programme

The trade-in chain now accepts Bitcoin in more than 30 shops in the UK, with plans to expand to 256-plus shops in the future. Their Glasgow store has also installed a Bitcoin ATM

After a series of strange incidents, Printworks staff decided to inspect CCTV footage where they spotted what appears to be the shadow of a person moving across their offices

The British flag was lowered and Camp Bastion was handed over to Afghan troops as all British soldiers left the camp

Around 12am, October 27, two men armed with a trench shovel and a baseball bat burst smashed their way through the double glazed patio doors of the Bandy Fields Place house in Higher Broughton