Two men from Greater Manchester among four arrested at Rishi Sunak's home

The road from Manchester to Marple is littered with political signs popping out from the gardens.

You can’t beat a visit to the park when the weather’s nice. Luckily when it comes to parks, gardens and green spaces there are loads to choose from in Greater Manchester.

Oldham has seen one of the biggest increases in car parking costs across the UK in the last two years. The council has doubled its fees since 2022, making it the third biggest increase among local authorities.

Major road works are set to begin in Salford, taking months to complete at a cost of £700,000.

Former gang leader Daniel Gee has been arrested in Greater Manchester after more than a month on the run. The former Merseyside gangster, who turned his own estate into a 24 hour drug trading zone, absconded from Kirklevington Grange prison in North Yorkshire on May 27.

Police have issued a new image of Daniel Gee showing the fugitive smiling following his arrest. The former Merseyside gangster, who turned his own estate into a 24 hour drug trading zone, absconded from Kirklevington Grange prison in North Yorkshire on May 27.

Temperatures will soar to highs of 26C in Greater Manchester today - as a heat health alert kicks in for much of England.

NHS hospitals in Greater Manchester have paid out more than £181m in damages over cerebral palsy claims in the last 11 years. The figures come as one of the region’s hospital trusts will pay out nearly £30m after ‘accepting their negligence led to a baby girl suffering catastrophic injuries’ in court last week, according to a family’s lawyers.

Across Greater Manchester are dozens of amazing parks, gardens and green spaces which are just waiting to be explored. While some are always on your radar - think Heaton Park or Fletcher Moss - there are others you might not have heard of.

NHS waiting lists and the number of people stuck in A&E for over four hours rose across England in April - and now you can see how they have grown at your trust over the last 13 years.

It's almost inconceivable that two photographs taken of Amelia Bird taken a year apart are depicting the same young girl. One shows a six year old Amelia in hospital, her tiny body riddled with over 30 gruesome injuries, a result of an attack by a group of suspected XL Bully dogs.

The rail service from Bolton’s smaller towns has been branded a ‘disgrace’ after four of them were included in the top 10 worst train stations in the UK. Over the four weeks leading to May 29, Kearsley train station had a staggering 81 per cent of services delayed or cancelled.

His fringe English Democrats party is perceived by the political mainstream to be far-right, even fascist, but Leigh and Atherton candidate Craig Buckley is at pains to argue: “I’m no racist neo-Nazi.” The 38-year-old factory worker is bidding to upset the political applecart in a constituency that turned blue for the first time in more than 100 years in 2019.

The yellow Bee Network buses, surging past rush hour traffic, are perhaps the most obvious sign of Greater Manchester’s dance with devolution.

For many of the people of Oldham East and Saddleworth, it appears no party leader is exciting them. When the Manchester Evening News visited the constituencytoask people to describe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a few words, people on the streets of Uppermill uttered a familiar few words - 'out of touch'.

The Met Office has issued a thunderstorm warning for today - including for parts of Greater Manchester.

There was a 'carjacking' and a huge brawl involving 30 people on a quiet residential street in Bury this afternoon (Friday). Police were called to the corner of Brierly Street and Richmond Street, south of the town centre close to Holy Cross College, at around 12:15pm to reports of a large group fighting.

Aldi has announced big changes to over 30 stores across the UK this summer, including two in Greater Manchester.

A Greater Manchester hospital trust will pay out nearly £30m after ‘accepting their negligence led to a baby girl suffering catastrophic injuries’, according to a family’s lawyers. The case is the ‘second largest settlement the NHS has ever made in a medical negligence case’, it is claimed.

More heavy rain is forecast this weekend in Greater Manchester - amid a 'sad, very showery' weather picture across the UK.