Manchester City Council has thrown its weight behind a campaign to put restrictions on addictive roulette machines dubbed the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’.

Manchester City Council revealed details this morning of options available to address a funding shortfall of £59million citywide.

A glass lobby which has been built on Library Walk – the walkway between the Central Library and the Town Hall – may have to be dismantled if the Council lose an ongoing public inquiry against the closing of the public walkway.

Motorists have reclaimed £1.38million from Manchester City Council over the last four years, as over a third of all contested Manchester city centre parking tickets were overturned.

Litter louts in Manchester can expect to be slapped with a hefty fine if they are caught dropping rubbish as a new team of litter busters get set to clean up the city centre.

A damning report from Stockport MP Anne Coffey has revealed that more than 3,000 children in Manchester have gone missing over last year.

Manchester Libraries and The Lesbian and Gay Foundation have joined forces to make LGBT archives publically available at Central Library.

A Manchester father is encouraging others to adopt a child after his own inspiring story has created a bond that is ‘stronger than anything else I have known’.

The Director of Children’s Services at Manchester City Council has quit – months after a damning report from Ofsted labelled the child protection unit ‘inadequate’.

While Manchester’s city centre appears to be undergoing constant regeneration, in areas walking distance from the city centre, such as Moss Side and Hulme, nearly half of children live in poverty

The side face stiff competition from Didsbury Cricket Club and Wythenshawe Sports Club in the Manchester City Council 2014 Sports Awards