Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has slammed David Cameron in a Manchester speech today –branding the Prime Minister ‘not honest’ about his plans to privatise the NHS.

Police have questioned 14 men as part of a new investigation into alleged child abuse at the Rochdale school where Sir Cyril Smith is accused of preying on boys.

A women’s magazine survey has revealed that the gender pay gap between men and women in their twenties has doubled in the past three years.

Matthew Gough, 19, suffers from interstitial cystitis (IC), a chronic inflammation of the bladder for which there is unfortunately no cure

Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down for publishing posts containing hate speech – but an hour later they were back online.

It is expected that Richard Farnell, who represents Balderstone and Kirkholt ward, will have his position ratified at a full council meeting on Wednesday.

A petition calling for an end to the BBC’s ‘media blackout’ against the Green Party has reached 38,850 signatures – and counting.

After the council became a ‘Tory-free zone’ back in 2012, Labour finished off their other main rivals to take all of the 32 wards as the Liberal Democrats surrendered their nine seats with 95 out of 96 seats now held by Labour and just one by Independent Labour councillor Henry Cooper..

Labour managed to keep hold of every one of their 52 council seats following the local election results, seeing off a strong threat from several UKIP candidates

Former Stockport Council Leader Dave Goddard, who lost his seat in the last round of local elections in 2012 after 22 years at the helm, was re-elected to the Offerton ward after a bitter contest with the local Labour candidate Charlie Stewart.

Ian Stewart blasted the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government for making around £100million in cuts over the last two years