Manchester children in need of adoption face 20% longer wait to find families
Children hoping to find new families across Greater Manchester are facing a 20% longer wait to be adopted than three years ago, according to latest government figures.
It’s in the (hand)bag! Single mum wins Stretford SHOP in Dragon’s Den-style contest
A single mum-of-two wins Stretford Mall’s competition for budding entrepreneurs, Win A Shop, with her business The Girl for Bags
Anyone for a game of disc golf? Frisbee aces aim for first North West course at Trafford
A group of Manchester ultimate frisbee veterans are bringing their discs to the golf course – and need your help to make their idea fly.
Davyhulme fracking: Council postpone decision as activists reveal holes in drill plans
Trafford Council fracking plans in Davyhulme have been stopped after lobby group Friends of the Earth (FotE) drilled holes in their plans.
Funds to save lungs: Clean air group plead for donations to sustain tests into ‘unsafe’ M60 toxic gas levels
BCAG have already started a programme to monitor the air pollution in the Davyhulme and Urmston area, so that they can get a base line before the Davyhulme incinerator becomes operational
Manchester’s ‘avoidable death’ shame will only get worse if Barton energy plant goes ahead, warns eco group
The Breathe Clean Air Group contacted the council after MM revealed that, in 2012, male avoidable deaths in Manchester were at almost double the national average – 42% higher than the rest of the UK
Every little helps: Art dealer fined for unloading paintings too slowly – while Tesco deliveries get double time
Chris Brooks, 43, uses a loading bay outside his premises to carry inside prestigious works worth up to £45,000 each by artist including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Sir Peter Blake to showcase at his shop
From pub to polls: Youngest council leader in UK Sean Anstee is ‘drinking’ of ways to engage youths in Trafford politics
Trafford Council Leader Sean Anstee has urged young voters to join him for a pint as he battles for the Bucklow-St-Martins seat.
Where do you draw the line? Trafford Council splash £4,000 on strip of double yellow lines in Sale
Trafford Council spent almost £4,000 in a scheme introducing double yellow lines to a small area of Sale last year.
Poisonous gas levels around Trafford are ‘shocking’ and breach EEC legal limits, claim pollution protest group
Trafford’s Breath Clean Air group began testing the levels of NO2 three months ago
‘Step back for democracy’: Davyhulme biomass incinerator given green light by High Court judge
England faces fines of £300million per year due to pollution levels