Manchester teens are doing their bit to stub out smoking amongst their peers after Action on Smoking on Health (ASH) figures revealed 18,000 young people take up cigarettes each year in the region.

Ahead of plans to force slaughterhouses across the country to install CCTV cameras, the campaign leader of the UK’s largest Animal Rights group speaks out on the issue.

South Manchester MP John Leech is joining the rebellion to get the government ‘beer-tie’ scheme scrapped in a bid to get local pub landlords off the breadline