The team behind Manchester’s Lung Health Check Programme has been named Cancer Care Team of the year at the BMJ Awards, the UK’s leading medical awards. Launched last month, the project will drastically reduce poor early diagnosis and survival rates for lung cancer by providing
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has attended an event to mark the end of a major project which has researched the experiences of marginalised young people in ten countries across the EU. Young people are often at the forefront of social, cultural and political
10 talented learning disabled ceramicists from the Venture Arts studio in Manchester are taking part in a special 10-Clay ceramics event in the run-up to the Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run 10k. The participants will each create a souvenir cup that will symbolise celebration and ‘cheers’,
Full planning permission was granted for the scheme by Bolton Council’s planning committee last week (April 18). Homes will be a mixture of apartments and town houses in the Croal Valley part of the town centre. The residential scheme, from Bolton-based company Forshaw Land &
Eight members of a Salford organised crime group have been jailed for their roles in separate plots to shoot two men in cold blood as part of a feud with a rival gang. The first incident took place outside a carwash on Bolton Road in
Idiotic vandals who threw lifebuoys into Salford Quays over the Easter weekend put people’s lives at risk. Salford City Council has issued the stark warning after most of the life saving devices were pulled from their posts and hurled into the water while children and
Did you witness a robbery in the Dukinfield area of Tameside? Police are appealing for information after a man threatened staff at Martins Bakery in King Street on Saturday 20 April 2019. Shortly after 2:30pm the offender entered the shop with a knife and demanded
A former Leicestershire Police Special Constable who threatened to burn down a family’s house has had his sentence increased after intervention by the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP. Shahib Asan, 23, engaged in a lengthy course of threatening conduct towards former family friends. This
Free sanitary products will be offered to girls in all primary schools in England from early next year, under plans announced today by the Department for Education. The Government committed to provide access to free sanitary products in England’s secondary schools and colleges in last
GOOD Friday will see firefighters from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) join Bolton Mountain Rescue Team to help keep people safe and prevent moorland fires from breaking out. Crew members will be present in Rivington on Friday, April 19, 2019, talking to members
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