Manchester Storm this week announced their first pre-season matches following their return, 18 years after the original team closed due to financial problems.

Liam Phillips, 2013 BMX world champion, moved to Manchester seven years ago and is currently preparing for the July 21-25 World Championships to be held at Circuit Zolder in Belgium, a site better known for its Formula 1 pedigree.

Evans is now the top paid BBC employee, in contrast to a culture of minimum wage, zero-hour contracts for the man on the street.

Manchester’s shopping and eating district is launching a new monthly market later in June and the first event is to feature a Lego Walk to raise money for the Christie.

A Danish politician this week bared all in a selection of nude posters ahead of the country’s elections later this month.

In the UK, 99.9 per cent of businesses are as classed small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with the city’s RedBank Co one such business.

Former Hollyoaks star Carley Stenson today posed with a prop fox corpse outside the city centre Harvey Nichols in a protest against the end of the company’s ‘fur-free’ policy.

Finding your next partner over that watercooler conversation might not be such a bad thing, if new research is correct in showing that office romances can boost employee productivity.

Manchester’s first gaming festival is to arrive in the city next month, with organisers wanting to put the emphasis on the social side of gaming over hardcore competition or the latest triple-A titles hoovering your wallet.

Greater Manchester’s Police & Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has put his name in the hat to become the region’s Interim Mayor as part of the devolution of powers to the city.

With the banding planning to visit Manchester for the first time later this month, MM posed Pete from The Devil Makes Three some questions.