A huge crowd-funding campaign is underway to restore an Edwardian Tameside theatre to its former glory.

Bury was sixth and Tameside ninth in the league table of areas of the UK ranked by the number of takeaway restaurants they have per 100,000 residents.

Figures, requested under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that the cash-strapped council spent £62, 205.75 in 2014/15 alone, despite proposing 122 job cuts in December.

Benefits are being stopped for ‘ridiculous’ reasons, punishing the poorest and most vulnerable, according to Ashton MP Angela Rayner.

Twenty four people have been sentenced – with over half a century’s time in prison handed down – in a widespread clampdown on drug dealers in Tameside.

After finally being announced as the winner, at around 9am the morning after the election count had started, Ms Reyner became the first female MP for not only Ashton-under-Lyne, but for the whole of Tameside

The shadow deputy health minister told MM how his day started with some 5am leaflet distribution, but ended up in hospital, where he was forced to obtain an emergency proxy vote for a stricken family member.

GMP have recovered a gun and chemicals allegedly acquired to make an explosive device during a series of house searches in Tameside.

People in Manchester city centre are not even expected to reach the traditional retirement ages of 60 and 65 before moving into a phase where their health is neither very good nor good.

A 16-year-old Tameside boy has today pleaded guilty to attempting to acquire a deadly biological toxin with a view to taking his own life.

New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveal obesity hospital admissions were higher in the North West than anywhere else in the country last year.