Most expensive supermarket has Aldi price matched almost every item in our shopping comparison

From working 70 hour weeks due to staff cuts, to turning off lights and the heating on quiet days or shutting altogether, the cost of living crisis and rising energy bills are forcing pub landlords to take drastic measures in a bid to stay afloat.

Pep Guardiola says Manchester City cannot afford to think about their Champions League quarter-final with Real Madrid because of their dangerous position in the Premier League.

Phil Foden says Pep Guardiola told him to add more rhythm to his game when he plays centrally for Manchester City, something he feels he's now doing.

One of the UK's 'most wanted' fugitives has been arrested at an airport after 27 years on the run.

The M.E.N recently reported on the scale of demand for high school places in Trafford, the only Greater Manchester borough which still has a state grammar school system decided by the 11-plus exam. Here, the M.E.N's Damon Wilkinson writes about how Trafford came to be the only borough in our region which kept a selective school system which defined post-war Britain - but only survives in a few parts of the country today.

A Match of the Day pundit has questioned Erik ten Hag’s tactics after Manchester United’s draw with Brentford.

If you're someone who likes to count calories then this time of year is probably a challenging one for you - or something you choose to ignore altogether.

A supermarket which has been most expensive for basics over the last month has slashed prices for Easter.

Police have renewed an appeal for help to trace a 17-year-old boy who has been missing for almost four weeks.

Jack Grealish has told his Manchester City teammates that they have to beat Arsenal if they want to win the Premier League.

Residents living on a street have all been told they must leave within weeks.

Kobbie Mainoo, the rising Manchester United star, has a very famous brother who made his name on Love Island. Kobbie's own quick rise to fame continued this week when he got his first call-up to play for England.

A farmer says he has been left ‘in limbo’ over plans for a major link road to tackle congestion which has dogged commuters between Wigan and Bolton for decades. Farm buildings in the Hindley area of Wigan, where Brian Lee grew up, were demolished in the late 1990s after they were compulsorily purchased by the council. But the road has never been built.

Yellow buses will now be seen buzzing through Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Bury and north Manchester following the launch of the Bee Network’s second phase.

It's the clash between the old Northern Quarter and the new.

A mum who was homeless with two children is hoping to be crowned a beauty queen after getting through to the finals of a major pageant.

Salford Quays is at the forefront of Greater Manchester's transformation, but it has a serious litter problem.

A supermarket which has been the cheapest for these shopping essentials every week for more than a year is almost neck and neck with its main rival.

A man accused of murdering a woman whose body has never been found has been appeared in court. Alisha Apostoloff-Boyarin, 24, from Ashton-under-Lyne, disappeared more than two years ago.

There will be a 'real, urgent and complex' situation facing Manchester’s teenagers next year.