As a city, we’re renowned football fanatics, but new research has shown that our sporting allegiances could even influence our interior design.

Working from home is a rapidly growing trend in the North West as the number of people doing paperwork in their pyjamas has increased by more than 70,000 in the last 10 years – and 200,000 more would like to join them, according to the Trade Union Congress.

North West residents spend an average of two months a year on the sofa, according to a new poll.

Disabled people will have a chance to play out their sexual fantasies when a network of charity members and sex workers gather in Manchester for a special event next month.

More than half of people with Parkinson’s in the North West have experienced hostility and rudeness from members of the public with one professor explaining that it makes sufferers feel like a ‘zoo exhibit’.

New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveal obesity hospital admissions were higher in the North West than anywhere else in the country last year.

According to Drink Wise, Manchester and Salford are the ‘binge drinking capitals of the North West’ and their survey has found that nine out of ten people in the region want the government to do more to protect young people from alcohol

Almost two thirds of disabled people in the North West face greater barriers making and sustaining friendships compared to non-disabled people according to a report commissioned by a UK disability charity.

Gorton-based West End AFC girls’ team are appealing for the public’s help to raise £6,000 to get their team to France to defend their Challenge Des Etoiles tournament title.

Terror squads arrested two teenagers in Mossley yesterday and two Tameside addresses are still being searched by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit.

Julie Ward MEP, a member of the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality committee, believes that more ‘compassionate’ forms of politics are needed to achieve ‘zero tolerance’ towards FGM.