Best spas in Greater Manchester you can book for a Christmas present

It is expected to be a wet but warm end to 2021, with temperatures reaching double figures across Greater Manchester.

Boxing Day is here which means sandwiches stuffed with leftover turkey, indulging in yet another mince pie and arguing over who should eat the toffee penny in the chocolate tin.

'A remorseless' teenager who brutally murdered a dad-to-be in the street and a perverted primary school deputy headteacher and her rapist boyfriend were just some of the offenders jailed in our region over the last week - just in time for Christmas.

Covid cases are continuing to skyrocket across the country, prompting health leaders to encourage people to seek a jab over the Christmas period.

With Christmas right around the corner, you're likely to soon have plenty of rubbish from all the presents you've had to wrap up and open.

Cristiano Ronaldo was one of the Manchester United players to return to Carrington on Wednesday for the first time since a Covid-19 outbreak forced the training ground to be closed.

The lead up to Christmas tends to be a slower period for the property market as people turn their focus to the upcoming festivities.

Forecasters are divided over the chances of a white Christmas in Greater Manchester this year.

BBC's Strictly Come Dancing returns to our screens tonight for its grand final, as two celebrities take to the dancefloor in a bid to win the coveted glitterball trophy.

A Tory rebellion received much of the attention from this week's vote on new controversial Covid rules, which required Labour votes to be passed into law.

Staff at vaccination clinics across Greater Manchester will be giving booster jabs on Christmas Day.

Greater Manchester’s top public health chief has warned the region only has a ‘small window’ in which to jab as many people as possible before the Omicron variant becomes the dominant strain here.

With it being impossible to order a lateral flow test, and tedious at best to book in for a PCR test, you could be forgiven for finding the Covid-19 testing process a hastle - but new guidance urging people to get tested to slow the spread of the Omicron variant makes it a necessary process.

Councils across Greater Manchester have outlined their plans for bin collections over Christmas and the New Year.

We’re now just two weeks out from Christmas — which means it’s party season.

Omicron cases have risen sharply over the last month in Greater Manchester, the latest figures reveal.

A star of Channel 4 show Educating Greater Manchester who was locked up for hiding a gun and ammunition for her boyfriend has had her jail sentence cut.

A Conservative MP from Greater Manchester says he will vote against the government's proposed vaccine passport plan.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been charged with conspiracy to commit police corruption.

His work has been the talk of Tameside since it suddenly appeared over the weekend.