The picturesque village just an hour from Manchester where you can explore caverns and a ruined castle

A small village in Wigan is having its moment in the spotlight.

Cricket legend Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff joined Drag Race UK icon Tayce to make a loud and proud arrival in Manchester city centre as they joined revellers in celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. The dynamic duo pulled into the city to toast the arrival of Manchester Pride with Tayce treating partygoers at the Oast House pub to an impromptu lip-sync performance.

Asda has increased the price of another yellow Just Essentials range product - just weeks after its launch.

A week can be a long time in football.

After what feels like the hiatus of a lifetime, the Manchester Pride parade is finally coming back to the streets of the city centre for the first time since 2019 in what is set to be a glimmering ray of colour, celebration and activism.

Throughout the Peak District are dozens of picturesque villages which are perfect for a day trip or to visit while out on a hike. With charming stone cottages surrounded by gorgeous countryside, they feel like a welcome escape from the hustle and bustle of city life.

A south Manchester woman feels ‘lucky to be alive’ after she was diagnosed with England’s deadliest cancer. Karen McCarthy went to see her GP after suffering a bad chest infection for two weeks.

Manchester United fans are split amid the latest reports which are linking Yannick Carrasco to the club.

Property agents are recording a rise in people looking to enjoy a more quiet life in Britain's lush green countryside.

Commuters at Piccadilly Station this morning were fed up with more rail disruption — which they say happens ‘every week’.

She turned heads as a bombshell arrival in the dreaded Casa Amor stage of Love Island and bombshell Mollie Salmon wowed as she stepped out in Manchester in just her lingerie. Make-up artist Mollie, 23, from Southampton, wowed in a zesty orange lingerie set as she posed for a racy photoshoot.

A journalist has described the shocking moment an 'aggressive drunk' hurled vile homophobic abuse at him and a friend then shoved him into the side of a taxi.

Love Island favourite Molly-Mae Hague regularly shares insights into her life with followers on her social media. The star, who was runner-up on the ITV2 reality show in 2019 with her man Tommy Fury, is generous with her fan Q&As on Instagram.

For years the Energyworks team, based on an industrial estate on Rochdale, have been doing their best to help people in Greater Manchester be "warmer, healthier and better off in their homes".

Leaders in Greater Manchester have joined the Mayor of London in condemning Avanti West Coast to cut the number of services to and from the capital. City-region mayor, Andy Burnham, leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig, and London mayor, Sadiq Khan, have penned a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, asking for an urgent meeting to restore the full timetable.

The village of Emmerdale will not be the same again from October onwards as a wind storm is set to shake up life in the Dales for every single resident. As fans know, the ITV soap's 50th anniversary is edging closer and there's set to be a month's worth of dramak with one very dramatic episode in amongst it all.

When the Lionesses began their delayed Euro 2021 campaign this summer, they set out with two goals in mind - to lift the trophy and to make more people fall in love with women's football.

The number of kidnappings in Greater Manchester has risen by more than 70 per cent in a year. Latest Home Office figures show there were 579 such crimes recorded in 2021 - a massive 73 per cent increase on the 334 for 2020 and the highest number in the last decade.

A sharp fall in the number of anti-Semitic incidents so far this year across Greater Manchester was reported today by a charity.