The Greater Manchester areas named amongst the 'happiest places to live' in UK

The potential regeneration of Heaton Park’s ‘jewel’ is the plan that will capture the imagination of many this week.

Figures released by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) show that more than a thousand pubs across the UK closed their doors in 2023.

On first glance, stepping into the Fox and Pine pub in the centre of Oldham is a bit like walking into a quirky antique’s shop full of nick nacks and oddities. Everywhere you look, there are signs, puppets, pots, and a large number of foxes dotted around every part of the walls. It's anything but subtle.

More than £300,000 has been raked in by Tameside Council in the last three years from bus lane fines alone.

Around 370,000 eligible voters in Greater Manchester are not properly registered to vote, a campaign group has claimed. Analysis by Unlock Democracy, which campaigns for democratic reforms, has found that 1 in 5 eligible voters in the city-region are not registered.

One in five Greater Manchester children have not had their full childhood immunisations by the time they get to primary school, new figures show. Health bosses say the trend of declining childhood vaccinations 'needs to be urgently reversed', with the ongoing measles outbreak serving as a 'reminder that these diseases have not gone away'.

Spring is upon us, bringing with it longer days and, hopefully, better weather. After months of hunkering down inside, it’s a chance to get back outside and out into nature as it wakes from its wintry slumber.

When Richard Midgley's daughter was moving up to secondary school in 2022 she applied to five places, but didn't get in any. The family, of Bowdon, later discovered they were just four metres outside the catchment zone for their first choice, North Cestrian in Altrincham.

A plan to build nearly 300 new homes in Salford is set to be decided on next week. The council's planning panel will vote on developing two plots of land off Robert Hall Street and West Park Street.

Parents in Manchester have responded to the news that fines are increasing for taking kids out of school.

We're just weeks away from the beginning of spring, hopefully a time when the grey skies give way to blue and the flowers will begin to bloom. Across Greater Manchester, there's a number of beautiful gardens, woodlands and parks to watch as the buds of daffodils, bluebells and tulips burst into action.

A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer has admitted sexually assaulting a young girl while on duty. PC Dean Dempster, who served with GMP in the Oldham division, today (Wednesday, February 28) pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child under 13 last year.

Walk around Stockport town centre and it's easy to get a sense of how quickly the area is changing.

A crocodile and a wild cat are among the ‘dangerous’ animals being privately kept in Greater Manchester, it has been revealed.

An acclaimed chef from Stockport is set to represent the North West in the latest series of The Great British Menu. The BBC’s ultimate culinary show returned to television screens a few weeks ago, and follows a group of top chefs as they go head-to-head to secure a place at the illustrious Great British Menu Banquet.

Six bank branches around Greater Manchester are set to close this year with some being the last branches available in their respective areas. Around 250 banks are set to close, or have already shut, as financial services continue to be stripped away from UK high streets.

An eye-catching property has come on the market in Greater Manchester - and it's priced at a staggering £2,250,000. The grand family home spans four floors and boasts seven bedrooms, as well as having a huge landscaped garden to the rear.

A house in Bury that has been up for sale for almost six years is the region's 'most unwanted' home. The four-bed detached property was put on Rightmove on June 4, 2018 and is yet to attract a buyer - making it the longest-standing house on the market in Greater Manchester.

A planning proposal for three new homes to be built on a pub car park has sparked outrage in a community plagued by more than two decades of parking “bedlam”. Permission was granted for the new three-bed flats to take up 15 car parking spaces outside The Grapes in Lees, Oldham.

A detective constable has left Greater Manchester Police in shame after he was found to have repeatedly messaged a 'vulnerable' victim of domestic abuse repeatedly while off duty.