Eight different players from Manchester’s big two have netted a combined ten goals as the competition enters the quarter-final stage – add one more goal from Wigan’s Jean Beausejour and Greater Manchester is comfortably the country’s most dominant region.

Little William is ‘obsessed’ with waste disposal and idolises the bin men who collect his family’s rubbish.

The free service is delivered by Beacon Counselling on behalf of GamCare

Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down for publishing posts containing hate speech – but an hour later they were back online.

Lieutenant commander Ian Molyneux, 36, was killed in April, 2011, as he tried to disarm fellow crew member Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 22, on board the HMS Astute in Southampton

Breast-feeding mums across Wigan are saying ‘thank you’ to the borough’s businesses who made them feel at home when coming back from maternity leave.

The fixtures were released at 9am, giving football fans across the region an ideal view of their post-World Cup hangover cure

Manchester is still playing a leading role in the Commonwealth Games 12 years on with eight athletes heading to Glasgow.

Charlotte Melling, from Wigan, had been riding her white Yamaha motornike when she collided with a gold-coloured Vauxhall Agila, driven by a 49-year-old woman who was travelling in the opposite direction

There was commuter ‘chaos’ near Bolton earlier this morning – as a horse brought rush-hour trains to a standstill.
Some services were delayed by up to 35 minutes when the horse entered the track between Farnworth and Moses Gate stations shortly before 6.30am this morning.

A masked man wielding a sledgehammer who stole thousands of pounds during a cash-in-transit delivery in Wigan is being hunted by police.