Silver ribbons and a disco ball sparkled above Oldham’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on election night – but which of the candidates would come away feeling like prom queens?

Labour consolidated their take-over of Trafford Council tonight winning six seats from the Conservatives and controlling the 21 wards for the first time since 2004.

The Green Party may not have gained a seat at the Salford elections last night but the environmental issue was nonetheless central to the way the results panned out.

It will be all hands on ‘duck’ this Good Friday as thousands of plastic ducks will be launched into the River Irwell – but with Greater Manchester aiming to become plastic-free by 2020, MM investigated whether the clean-up operation will still have an environmental cost.

The pair of Geraldine Coggins and Dan Jerrome re-wrote the party record books by securing the Greens’ first ever seats in Trafford.

The Great Smog of London is reportedly the worst air-pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom.

If the Conservatives can win seats like this one, Theresa May will secure the majority she desires in Parliament prior to negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Although votes won’t be cast until May 2017, the race to become Greater Manchester’s first “Metro Mayor” has certainly begun.

The victory was not as straightforward as many would have thought however as a second count was ordered in the supplementary voting.

Labour failed to sweep the board like many predicted but red half of Wigan can still be pleased.

The Salford Green Party have accused the Liberal Democrats of betraying their members after the former opposition to Labour pulled all candidates from competing for the city’s 21 seats.