How Bolton Wanderers were on the cusp of Champions League football, but fell away. It is hard to believe that the same club, currently bottom of League One, were incredibly close to entering Europe’s elite competition amongst the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and AC Milan.

Bury Football Club, the 134-year-old Football League outfit, is facing a winding-up petition in the High Court, launched by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), due to unpaid debts. The case was adjourned on October 16 and is due to re-commence this Wednesday (October 30).

Manchester City Council failed to collect more than £67million in council tax since 2010.

Manchester Central Labour MP Lucy Powell has expressed concern at the number of employees from financial service companies being given ‘privileged access’ to the inner-workings of the Financial Conduct Authority.

On a day where Manchester City was congratulated by the chancellor on its community credentials and Chelsea became the first Premiership football team to obtain full Living Wage status, the spotlight has now fallen on Manchester United to follow suit, fans have said.

A Manchester online trader nicknamed the ‘Woolf of e-Wall Street’ after he made £1.4million selling CDs and DVDs on eBay has been jailed for two years for refusing to pay tax on his global internet empire.

Ahmed Salim Khezri was handed a six-year prison sentence in April along with the rest of the organised gang he was a part of after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) officers smashed their £28million cigarette smuggling conspiracy.

British Gas were condemned as ‘bullying hypocrities’ today for filching almost £17,000 from a Bolton businessman’s bank account after officials accidentally overcharged him on his monthly bill.