The day the bodies floated down the river

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Salford Quays will be lit up in February as The Christie Charity’s Night of Neon returns next month. The family-friendly 5k walk is taking place on February 3 and will see participants light up the night in dazzling fluorescent colours.

Discovering the ideal city in Britain to live in means weighing factors like well-paid jobs, reasonable housing costs, amenities and a vibrant cultural scene.

The Japanese House has been announced as the support act for The 1975‘s upcoming UK headline tour.Matty Healy and co. are due to embark on their ‘Still… At Their Very Best’ tour next month.

Manchester has been named among the best places to visit in 2024 by The New York Times in its annual guide. The US publication has listed 52 places to travel to in the coming year, with the likes of Paris, Singapore and Florida also making the cut.

Well, Big Santa has come down, and Christmas in Manchester is officially over. Until next time.

The Met Office has predicted where snow could fall over the UK amid a yellow weather warning for ice and sub-zero temperatures this week.

Frank Sidebottom’s talk show. Check out the footage below.Soul, best known for playing Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, died on Thursday (January 4), following what his wife Helen Snell described as a “valiant battle for life in the loving company of family”.He went on to have his own music career, with the UK Number One singles ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’ and ‘Silver Lady’, but it is a very different musical performance that has been doing the rounds on social media this weekend.Soul once appeared on Frank Sidebottom’s Proper Telly Show, a short-lived anarchic chat show that was broadcast on Channel M in Greater Manchester in 2006 and 2007.The show, hosted by the absurdist comedian Chris Sievey’s persona Frank Sidebottom, welcomed Soul as a guest on the December 1, 2006 episode, with the two of them ending the show by playing a seemingly impromptu version of The Fall’s 1987 single ‘Hit the North’.“He’s playing it, can you believe it!” Sidebottom says as Soul takes to the keyboard to open the track.

Residents whose homes have been left devastated by the tornado that tore through Stalybridge last week have hit out at the council in the aftermath of the freak weather event.

Some of Greater Manchester's biggest names spent their formative years as pupil's of the regions now vanished schools.

Bury continues to move forward with various town centre projects, with several other major developments in Radcliffe and Prestwich. Developers also continue to table plans for schemes that catch the eye and promise to bring new homes, leisure and medical facilities to the borough.

Manchester's development boom, which has seen the city's skyline transformed in under 20 years, showed no signs of slowing down in 2023. It's the same story for 2024.

The owners of Altrincham Market are among those who have both been honoured with with MBEs in the King's New Years Honours list.

A grieving son sorting through his mum's affairs the day after she died discovered a heartbreaking note.

A primary school has been placed in special measures and told it cannot recruit newly-qualified teachers after being inspected and deemed ‘inadequate’. Cadishead Primary School in Salford got the lowest available overall grading by Ofsted following a visit by inspectors in November.

It's been nearly 40 years since a fatal train crash rocked Greater Manchester. The rail tragedy happened in Eccles when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train carrying oil tankers.

Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy thought Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho looked 'more comfortable' and 'more productive' on the right-wing during Boxing Day's 3-2 win over Aston Villa at Old Trafford.

In May 2017, BBC Children in Need made a phone a call to Action Fraud - a national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.

The drive down the windy roads towards Denshaw is a beautiful one. But they have been at the centre of tragedies too many times.

Each morning, Mia starts her day by carefully wiping down her walls and windowsills for mould.