An Oldham primary school has been blasted by Ofsted for not dealing with bullying effectively during a recent inspection.

Kate Cross, Lancashire’s first female professional cricketer and Jennifer Laycock, Women’s Cricket Development Officer for the county both agree that the recent development of women’s cricket will help it share a similar status to their male counterparts.

Three local politicians will come head-to-head when they present their parties’ education manifestos to the public in preparation for May’s general election.

Bobby Denning, who has held his position since October 2013 and has worked for the LCB in various roles for 14 years, accepts that cricket faces serious challenges to arrest decreasing levels of participation.

Schools are being urged to combat high levels of physical and mental illness in young people and teachers by nominating themselves for a new national health and wellbeing initiative.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), says the body would need to work with the ‘whole of education’ to create a culture for their own needs and not the government.

A Manchester councillor has pledged to ensure every person in the city centre is within four minutes of life-saving defibrillator equipment.

Bolton West MP Julie Hilling is backing the British Heart Foundation’s push to make it compulsory for children to learn life-saving skills in school.

Professor Ian Jacobs, Director of Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), believes that young people can have a ‘profound impact’ on health outcomes for future generations.

More than half of Tameside’s secondary schools are inadequate or require improvement, according to Ofsted’s annual report.

Canoeist Tim Baillie, who won gold with partner Etienne Stott in the men’s slalom C2 at London 2012, and Paralympic swimming bronze medallist Natalie Waddon handed Failsworth youngster Rebecca Thomson an award to commemorate the youngster’s Get Set to Make a Change legacy programme efforts.