On Monday a public consultation into Greater Manchesters radical expansion over the next 20 years is to be launched. It would see more than 225,000 new homes and millions of square metres in office and industry space built across the region between now and 2035, in proposals that would see the region’s green belt boundary redrawn ...

Company director Chris Stocks did not forget his roots as he fought cancer. He had left school to be an apprentice at a local engineering firm and rose to director of a telecom giant. Now after losing his battle with the disease he has left a and £50,000 legacy to give young people at the beginning of their working lives a helping hand ...

Complaints about potholes across Greater Manchester topped 16,000 in a year, according to figures exclusively released to the M.E.N. Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians across the region have reported thousands of surface marks on our roads, with councils saying they are committed to working on the problem ...