Greater Manchester County, England News

GASCOIGNE Halman in Altrincham is hosting a charity cake sale on Friday, June 21 in aid of Pictor School in Timperley.

A WIGAN man who developed a drinking problem after being made redundant died following an accidental fall, an inquest heard.

Wigan Council inspections carried out under Food Standards Agency guidelines show that a number of takeaways, restaurants and nursing homes along with a school canteen needed to clean up their acts.

THE fire service's latest four-legged recruit is now ready to help save lives after passing a rigorous testing process for doggy helpers.

Supreme Court judges will rule later on whether relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the government for damages under the Human Rights Act.

An attorney says slavery charges against three people in Ohio are ludicrous and says the woman at the center of the alleged forced-labor plot moved in and out as she pleased.

Despite being a coalition it has proved to be a government with a clear unity of purpose, committed to a neoliberal agenda of austerity, deregulation and a smaller state.

David Cameron and David Walliams meet children including pupils from Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School outside 10 Downing Street STANDING on the steps of 10 Downing Street, pupils from Sir Thomas Boteler CE High School called on the Prime Minister to tackle global hunger.

Leeds city council's chief executive, Tom Riordan, has called for Whitehall to have a much closer relationship with local government or face "huge unease and a backlash" from those in the north of England who feel disempowered.

ALTRINCHAM based Loose Change Buskers raissed A 480 when they performed at Paradise in Wilmslow on Saturday and A 702 when they played at the Tesco store in Altrincham on Sunday.

Labour Housing Group used its annual policy day in Manchester to discuss a 50-point plan to offer positive ways for an incoming Labour government to begin to tackle the housing crisis.

THE fire service has issued a warning about cooking-related fires after a series of kitchen blazes in Bolton and across Greater Manchester in on 12-hour period.

In his regular column, Greater Manchester Police Federation chairman Ian Hanson remembers the events that followed the deaths of two much-loved colleagues.

With that ban, an owner that has raised, then smashed expectations with the start-stop nature of the cash flow and a new manager coming in, what is a nailed-on Spanish international to do? A move seems inevitable and the choices are very clear: stay in Spain with Real Madrid or change scenery to England and Manchester City .

A LEIGH man who could not cope with the break-up of his relationship with the mother of his child has been given a restraining order.

The project is being tested locally to see if a whole community can change their travel habits, raise money for local schools and win prizes all at the same time Muslims shared flowers of peace with the community as they worked to build harmony in their neighbourhood after terrorist horrors in London.

COMIC book capers were brought to life for pupils across the borough when author and an editor of Dandy, Beano and Marvel dropped in to talk to them.

A new theory suggests the picturesque scene could be the chosen burial spot of 12-year-old Keith Bennett and four more of the killers' unknown victims.

Changing demands for care of the elderly has put pressure on Jewish welfare agencies to adapt their properties.

A PET dog has been reunited with his owner after being found wandering in Little Hulton - more than three years after going missing.