Chris Icely, from Trafford, picked up the esteemed ‘Unsung Heroes’ award at the annual event, now in its 19th year, in London on Tuesday.

Andrew Western, who previously held the deputy leader role and currently serves as Labour Councillor for Trafford’s Priory Ward, was voted in at last night’s selection meeting.

Manchester’s ‘ex-smokers’ are the worst in the country for LYING about their success at ditching cigs, according to a new report – while every Mancunian forks out £62 every year to pay for their hospital fees.

A list of the best places to go for a bonfire this year.

Religious and city leaders across Salford united to pay a touching tribute to murdered aid worker Alan Henning last night.

Anti-fracking campaigners in Trafford are concerned their ‘voices are not being heard’ despite collecting 1,500 signatures opposing plans to drill for gas in Davyhulme.

It’s all doom and gloom across Greater Manchester as new statistics claim the region is below the UK average for happiness and life satisfaction.

Coming back to make this new journey for parents a little less daunting is The Baby and Toddler Show which will be returning to Manchester for the second time this year on September 26-28.

A Lotto jackpot worth almost £400,000 is still unclaimed in Trafford – and has been handed 180-day deadline until it’s given away to fund charity projects.

The former Chelsea winger has become the patron of a new scholarship founded by Laureus Sport for Good Foundation at the University Camilo Jose Cela in Madrid

Doctors discovered in 2009 that James McCarthy, 31, from Trafford, had been living with a brain tumour the size of a fist, possibly for several years, after he suffered a fit at the wheel causing him to lose control of his car