Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is calling for gay and bisexual men to be granted the freedom to donate blood.

Almost one hundred academics have joined the fight to get the University of Manchester to cut all ties with the fossil fuels industry.

As #EndTamponTax does the rounds on Twitter and the petition ‘Stop taxing periods. Period’ gains more than 200,000 the University of Manchester is looking into ways to make sanitary products cheaper for their female students.

Neighbours Darren Mellor and Andy Harris pulled a 63-year-old woman and the man, 55, from the blaze on Brooklands Close around 6am on Wednesday morning.

A petition launched by a Wigan politician aims to have Wigan leave the borough of Greater Manchester to re-establish links with Lancashire.

Making headlines once again for his string of controversial antics, Jeremy Clarkson has now been suspended from the BBC after allegedly punching a producer. But should this be the final straw for his Top Gear career?

Mrs Urquhart, whose online petition gathered over 10,000 signatures, said she was ‘delighted’ with the outcome and that ‘common sense had prevailed’.

Plans to build a £15million Margaret Thatcher museum would be ‘utterly insensitive’ given the ‘harsh’ austerity measures being imposed on the ‘bottom end of society’, argues a Manchester campaigner.

Manchester Metropolitan University professor Cathy Urquhart – who launched an online petition against the spikes last weekend – revealed to MM that there could be up to two protests across the weekend and early next week.

Manchester Green Party have branded ‘anti-homeless’ spikes ‘dehumanising’ and called on Selfridges to abolish the ‘heartless’ tactic.

A Manchester activist is encouraging people to donate their pillows to people sleeping rough in a fight against Selfridges’ controversial installation of ‘anti-homeless’ spikes outside their city-centre store.