A 29-year-old man is in a serious condition after being attacked with a machete in Salford – making it the third stabbing to have happened in the area in just 24 hours.

When you dispose of your empty wine bottles at the end of a boozy weekend, you may be unaware that somebody out there is waiting to get their hands on them as part of their day job.

A film starring a Rochdale school pupil with cerebral palsy has been nominated for a national award sponsored by leading production companies.

Hospices like St Ann’s are in need of funding from the £6billion NHS budget devolved to the city, a Manchester MP has told Prime Minister David Cameron.

Four Greater Manchester districts feature in the UK’s top 20 job seeker sanction hot-spots – making it one of the most heavily penalised regions in the country.

Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.

Like millions of teenagers across the country, former Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form student Nathan Cousins had to make the difficult decision on whether to persue a university education or to find a full time job.

An anti-facist group have branded English Defence League supporters ‘Nazis’ as they attempted to counteract a rally in Manchester at the weekend.

With the looming general election and prospect of devolution the city is ‘at a very important point in our history’ according to the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) chief executive.

Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that British economic recovery has reached a ‘major milestone’ is naïve, according to a Oldham MP.

FC United’s accreditation as a Living Wage employer in October last year, when they became the first club in England to pay their staff a minimum £7.65 an hour rather than the £6.50, is just one reason the non-league Manchester side are making waves in the national consciousness.