A Bolton MP has hit out at the government’s ‘broken promises’ to improve the train service and add more carriages on the journey to and from Manchester.

Funeral costs have nearly doubled in the last decade – yet a bill to seize control of prices and ensure ‘simple funerals’ is being heard in Parliament today in a bid to tackle to spiraling crisis.

Pro-Palestine groups demonstrated in Piccadilly Gardens on Saturday to protest against Barclays bank and its investments in companies that supply weapons to Israel.

The British Government is ‘complicit in war crimes’ for selling £7million-worth of military equipment to Israel just months before attacks on Gaza, claims a Manchester pro-Palestine group.

Lord Freud, the government’s welfare reform minister, told a meeting at the Conservative Party conference last month that disabled people are ‘not worth’ the full minimum wage of £6.50, and could be made to work for as little as £2 an hour

Manchester’s MPs must vote to recognise the State of Palestine as an independent nation, according to the Manchester Green Party.

Betting company Ladbrokes believe more Conservative party members could defect and have set odds of 10/1 for Bury North MP David Nuttall to be the next to jump ship to UKIP.

Oldham MP Michael Meacher has condemned David Cameron’s anti-jihadist measures and has accused the Government of undermining core British principles.

Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh will be appearing before Parliament seeking for more funding and awareness of pancreatic cancer – after an e-petition requesting a debate into the disease received over 100,000 signatures.

North West MEP Afzal Khan has condemned all anti-Semitic behaviour after volatile pro-Palestine demonstrations outside a Jewish-run store in Manchester.

A Manchester University professor believes that doctors will one day legally be able to issue drugs to give terminally ill patients the ‘right to die’ – but won’t be allowed to administer them.