Salford comedian Jason Manford has enlisted the help of his Mancunian mates and comedy chums to join dying teen Stephen Sutton in his fundraising battle.

Selfie is a word that is new to many Britons after it exploded into the public’s collective consciousness last year – but the craze has caused new driving dangers.

Checkemlads, a survivor-run charity, has received over £600 in donations from the campaign so far

Cancer Research UK support the new craze but say they are not behind the campaign

Claire Minehane, 26, from Coventry studies special effects for film and television at the University of Bolton

We are inviting readers to send us YOUR selfie snaps and we have already collected a host of pictures from all over Manchester

Time magazine discovered that there are 114 selfie-takers per 100,000 people in Manchester – which is head and shoulders above London, who have less than three times as many

Chris Edwards was jailed yesterday

Nina Nesbitt’s ‘Peroxide’ remains at Number 1 in the UK album chart