Smoking in front of children costs NHS £103million a year in North West, claims Manchester City Council leader
Sir Richard Leese: ‘Let’s cut off new supply of smokers’
David Cameron’s u-turn on cigarette packaging branded ‘weak and pathetic’ by Manchester MP and health experts
Furore over plain packaging ‘u-turn’
Manchester youth smoking shame: Six children take up cigarettes EVERY DAY
More than 10,000 children across region took up habit in 2012
Unnecessary firefighter call-outs slashed after ‘time-wasting’ false alarms at Tameside Hospital tackled
False fire alarms once numbered between 20 and 30 each month