Manchester’s ‘ex-smokers’ are the worst in the country for LYING about their success at ditching cigs, according to a new report – while every Mancunian forks out £62 every year to pay for their hospital fees.

Studies uncovered a worrying north-south divide, as last year more than six times as many people died due to liver disease in Manchester than they did in Maidenhead and Windsor

Senior health officials are reassuring those in Manchester and the rest of the UK that the risk of Ebola spreading across the country is ‘very low’.