Overbudget Factory arts centre in talks over selling naming rights for £25m

A convenience store could be stripped of its alcohol licence after being caught selling illegal tobacco for the sixth time in just over three years. Trading standards bosses found 400 Richmond cigarettes hidden in empty cereal boxes at Heaton Off Licence, in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, during a raid with a tobacco detection dog. A sample of the cigarettes was sent for examination which confirmed they were counterfeit. The packaging also failed to comply with regulations which state the colour must be ‘drab dark brown with a matt finish’.

A motorway services on the M62 has been named by a transport watchdog as the worst in Britain following an extensive customer survey.

A brand new Pokémon treasure hunt style event has launched at the Trafford Centre just in time for half term. The event launched on Monday with Pikachu on board a Pokémon bus to welcome the first guests.

A Japanese technology investment giant has sold all its shares in Manchester-headquartered software and retail group THG to co-founder Matthew Moulding and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.

The teenage boy tragically killed in a car crash in Audenshaw on Saturday night has been named in floral tributes at the scene.

Shocking video footage has captured screams as lit fireworks were launched towards a tram in Manchester city centre on Sunday (October 16). Footage taken from Exchange Square, outside the Arndale, show the fireworks going off, shooting along the ground and even beneath a tram.

Police have issued an urgent appeal to find a missing teenage girl who was last seen on Friday evening (October 14). Destiny Garvie-Roberts, 15, is originally from Winsford but is known to have links to Greater Manchester.

A Ford Focus driver returned to the car park after shopping to find his car had been stolen.

There has been a rumour in Manchester this week. Initially, few dared to believe it.

A pub in Manchester has been labelled a "cost of living crisis hero" after it dropped its prices to £2 a pint - in a throwback to the 90s.

The centre of Manchester is a bustling place, with trams, cyclists, cars and pedestrians all vying for space as they look to get from A to B.

Owen Hargreaves says four players currently have their positions nailed down in the Manchester United team.

When you are ill or injured the last thing you want to do is sit around in A&E waiting to be seen.

A five-year-old girl and her dad are among ten dead after an explosion at a gas station in County Donegal.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Three days in the office bookended by two at home. It's a pattern of working that, post-covid, has become de facto for many. In fact it's now so common it's even got its own acronym, but it's too crude to print in a family newspaper like the M.E.N.

Naga Munchetty, 47, said she was "putting the world to rights" as she shared a series of pictures of her catch up with a friend on Twitter. The BBC Breakfast star posted an insight into her dinner date with broadcaster pal Katherine Downes, whom she met while working together at the BBC, as they discussed "top drawer gossip". Naga reposted a tweet shared by Katherine, who left her job at the BBC in 2021 after 14 years, that was captioned: "Sometimes you need a treat of a night out with a good friend.

In the 1970s and 80s, Manchester city centre had an underground shopping centre with almost everything shoppers could ever want and need.