Breakfast Club in Wigan: how volunteers are helping recovering addicts to get on the road to sobriety and back into society

Breakfast Club in Wigan: how volunteers are helping recovering addicts to get on the road to sobriety and back into society

For the fifth year now, Radio Manchester has given awards to some exceptional individuals for their community work

Wordsworth’s home Rydal Mount, in the Lake District, looks forward to a stimulating future in the hands of the Wordsworth Trust

We have entered the era of Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism, but what is it and what could it mean for the country as a whole?

Using a video doorbell to see where your delivery went or who tried to break into your car? Wigan council says tenants need permission for filming

Many places are trying out AI technology, but we need to ensure ethical use and have strong safeguards in place before we seriously implement it

Trump bans three news outlets, loses his press microphones, launches Trump TV, threatens fishing and gets “marked” on his UN speech

Trump bans three news outlets, loses his press microphones, launches Trump TV, threatens fishing and gets “marked” on his UN speech

Our voting system needs reforming to make sure democracy does not suffer from the multitude of parties we have now

Search continues for possible Wirral site of the Battle of Brunanburh where Englishness may have begun

Sober film buff says we need more complex depictions of addiction in film ahead of Stockport screening 29 September

Dusty drawers are hiding an e-waste fortune – so how do we recycle them and help the environment?

A free-to-use Hilbre Island safety website has been used by more than 20,000 people in 6 months

Crime has changed, and policing has to respond to catch criminals involved in horrendous crimes such as online child abuse and fraud scams

Wigan Council's new 24/7 AI assistant for adult social care advice raises questions about reliability and oversight

The Government has announced that forty-two new Young Futures Hubs are to open across England – including in Knowsley and in Greater Manchester

11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

When private fortunes buy political influence, the wealthy shape the argument – but the public is left to live with the consequences

Funding of political parties is a hot topic at the moment, so what is really going on with donations to Reform UK? Part one

When private fortunes buy political influence, the wealthy shape the argument – but the public is left to live with the consequences

Funding of political parties is a hot topic at the moment, so what is really going on with donations to Reform UK? Part one

11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

The Government has announced that forty-two new Young Futures Hubs are to open across England – including in Knowsley and in Greater Manchester

Air Force One inflates, Trump offers voters $5,000, Ireland protests and Space Force discovers Starship Troopers was satire – Earth, please

Life after Ed Sheeran: Aaron Rowe has announced new headline UK & Ireland tour dates starting in November – and extra Dublin dates

With pictures of Heather Small at the Retrospective Festival added

Adult care consultation in Westmorland and Furness: what happens to local care when the buildings are no longer deemed fit for the future?

Sybil, Carol Decker, The Fizz, Nadine Coyle, Pete Waterman, B*Witched.. All at the Retrospective Festival in Sherdley Park, St Helens

After the atmospheric pull of ‘New Ocean’, Manchester’s SCATTERCHILD now present a track that shows another shift in their ever-changing sound

Martin Kemp with support acts Leroy Lurve, Hassle and Nathan Moore, brought to the Stockport Plaza by Strawberry Radio

We owe coal a lot, but there are good reasons why it is getting a bad press recently

Haydock Library’s reopening highlights SEND inclusion, but the lead designer questions whether full inclusivity is even possible to achieve

The White House launches a deportation video game, Trump discovers brunette, and apparently the Moon now belongs to America

Ten Rossendale heritage sites open doors for Heritage Open Days

First-past-the-post gave Reform St Helens 73% of council seats in May 2026, even though only 34% of votes were for Reform

Reform-led Lancashire County Council has decided to stop delivering support to refugees who have been granted legal right to remain

A new documentary for BBC Two explores how young girls are being groomed, trafficked and sexually exploited by drug gangs across the UK

Two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years turned out to be a new squid species, a Jurassic squid-like cephalopod

Two exceptionally rare fossils dating back around 160 million years turned out to be a new squid species, a Jurassic squid-like cephalopod

A new documentary for BBC Two explores how young girls are being groomed, trafficked and sexually exploited by drug gangs across the UK