Domestic abuse offenders are more likely to be successfully prosecuted in the North West than anywhere else in the country, claims to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Cancer Research UK is bringing together leading researchers from the University of Manchester and London in a ground-breaking Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence that launched yesterday.

If you’re sick of the frenetic, stressed out pace of the Big Smoke and the sky-high prices of the south then pack your bags and head up north.

Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne stopped by Manchester Victoria train station and the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) following the announcement of a proposed HS3 high-speed railway line to connect northern cities from Liverpool to Hull.

Sandals Resorts’ tropical treasure hunt aims to make Mancunians search low and high for the brightly-coloured sandals after five were released into the wild nationwide.

Manchester’s diners will soon be able to snap themselves a free meal – simply by taking a picture of their food, courtesy of pop up restaurant The Picture House.

Muslims from around Greater Manchester lined the streets outside the country’s diplomatic base on Dickenson Road to display their disgust at what they see as a ‘massacre’ carried out by police

MM picks the top quotes from Sale-born Idiot Abroad star Karl Pilkington

A group of Muslim cyclists pedalled their way through Manchester and the rest of UK in a gruelling 600-mile trek in just seven days – all in the name of charity.

The Archbishops’ Council has warned that current plans for constructing the line between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds mean human remains will not be treated ‘in a decent and reverent manner’

A oil painting of a former bustling railway station by Salfordian LS Lowry, entitled Station Approach, Manchester, is set to fetch £3million at auction.