Four-time Olympic medallist Rebecca Adlington believes Keri-Anne Payne’s smarter approach will see the Stockport swimmer battling for a medal at Rio 2106.

Stockport skiing sensation Sofia Iglina admitted she was overwhelmed to have secured a top-three finish at English Alpine Championships having battled back from injury.

A Manchester care provider has been slammed as ‘poorly organised and no good’ amidst allegations of bullying.

A 100-year-old World War One diary has inspired a retired engineer to take up his hobby, writing, as a career.

Barry Thompson, a Stockport-based insurance director, turns 60 in March, and to mark the day, he is launching ‘60 Dos with Barry’, with an event to mark each year.

Stockport Council is warning people to be on their guard against a scam business targeting consumers in the area.

A man who consistently gave a ‘pack of lies’ to everyone has been jailed after he murdered a woman and left her wrapped in a duvet for emergency services to collect.

Viv Anderson has hailed the world’s first black professional football as an ‘incredible’ inspiration, in the week that marked 150 years since his birth.

Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors in Stockport have criticised government plans to change electoral registration could see up to a million people fall off the register.

Thousands of people gathered outside Manchester Town Hall to show their support for President Xi Jinping as he joined David Cameron, George Osborne, and other key figures from across Manchester for lunch today.

After signing a major record deal with Virgin EMI, the self-confessed working class Stockport five-piece are now in the process of recording their debut album.