Tragedy as man dies after collapsing during Great Manchester Run

There aren’t many places in the UK where you can experience opera inside a cave, see a hotel where Mary Queen of Scots reputedly stayed and drink the freshest mineral water available (although you might want to add an ice cube or two), yet you can do all of this in Buxton. You’d be forgiven if your mind first springs to the bottled water when you think of the town, but there’s so much more to this beautiful town on the edge of the Peak District.

Greater Manchester would not need to introduce a Clean Air Zone under a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, the Labour leader ruled out forcing the charging scheme through.

Radical plans to abolish the Greater Manchester mayor’s role and for Leigh and Atherton to be ‘cut adrift’ from Wigan council control have been put forward by a Conservative candidate. Former Wigan town mayor Michael Winstanley is vying to replace Tory MP James Grundy, who is not seeking re-election in the seat he took from Labour in Leigh and Atherton for the first time ever in 2019.

full report into the state of the sector for 2023, showing the “disaster” facing live music with venues closing at a rate of around two per week. Presented at Westminster, the MVT echoed their calls for a levy on tickets on gigs at arena size and above and for major labels and such to pay back into the grassroots scene, arguing that “the big companies are now going to have to answer for this”.The Music Venue Trust has pushed for this system to be introduced as a way of safeguarding the UK’s talent pipeline, similar to how the Premier League funds local football clubs.

A woman who was fighting for her life following a crash in Trafford has died from her injuries. Emergency services were called out to Stretford Road, in Urmston, at around 8.30pm on Thursday, May 23, after a Ford Fiesta collided with a lamppost.

Tributes have been paid to the former England international Rob Burrow who has sadly died at the age of 41 after a lengthy battle with motor neurone disease.

A man has died after firing a 'gun' on a town centre street. Police say the man, in his 50s, suffered serious injures after discharging a firearm in Stafford on Friday evening (May 31).

On Thursday July 4, Britain will get to vote for the first time since 2019 on which party should lead the country.

Tens of thousands of runner have taken part in the 2024 AJ Bell Great Manchester Run. The huge running event includes one of Europe's biggest 10km races as well as a half marathon.

A man has died more than a month after falling from an electric bike. Police do not believe any other vehicles were involved in the incident, which took place in Cheshire on Friday, April 19.

A spectacular drone display to mark seven years since the Manchester Arena bombing and to remember the 22 innocent victims killed in the tragedy has been cancelled due to weather concerns.

A ‘generation of new towns’ modelled on areas including Hale will be built if Labour wins the next election, according Angela Rayner. The party’s deputy leader was setting out her party’s plans at the UK Real Estate, Investment & Infrastructure Forum in Leeds on Tuesday (May 21).

Manchester City are to hold a victory parade through the city centre following the club's historic fourth-successive Premier League title.

Manchester Victoria station will fall silent to mark the seventh-anniversary of the Manchester Arena terror attack.

It is known as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of the NHS. The lives of many in the UK 'continue to be blighted' by the horrific scandal, which saw thousands given contaminated blood or blood products between the 1970s and 1990s.

A spectacular drone display is set to feature as part of events to remember the 22 innocent people killed in the Manchester Arena bombing. Wednesday will mark the seventh anniversary of the atrocity, which happened on May 22, 2017.

An elderly man died after he was struck by a motorbike when crossing the road in Oldham.

Two British Transport Police (BTP) officers who went on a two-hour dinner break on the night of the Manchester Arena attack have been handed final written warnings.

The full result of Greater Manchester’s mayoral election has been revealed — and it shows there is just one suburb where Andy Burnham didn’t win.

Bolton has launched its year as Greater Manchester town of culture with an event at the town’s famous Octagon Theatre. Performances from the theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors were among the highlights of the celebration alongside a showcase of local arts and culture.