In the latest of our series on notable figures who called the borough home, Neil Brandwood looks at where comedy legend Victoria Wood spent ...

Parents are being urged to prioritise vaccination as measles cases continue to rise in the region. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) North West is encouraging families to take advantage of the ...

Heys Road, Prestwich, forms part of Bury Council's £30m highways programme to repair roads throughout the borough. Work will take place until August 29 from 8am to 5pm, and will cost £152K. Traffic ...

The top names for baby girls and boys in the Bury borough in 2024 have been revealed through newly released ONS data ...

Sunnah Hiking Group raised £7,500 for an ICU in Yemen by summiting. Funds go to Al-Mudaffar Hospital via Global Relief Trust.

Three-year-old Boxer cross Rosie is looking for her forever home, having spent more than 500 days so far in the care of Dogs Trust Manchester ...

Rescue teams have found a body inside a section of a copper mine in Chile that collapsed two days earlier during a moderate earthquake, the mine’s director said on Saturday.

Lucy Hargreaves, 22, was asleep on the sofa when three men burst into her home in Walton, Liverpool, on August 3 2005 and fatally injured her.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also said she plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog.

The NHS maintained care for an estimated 10,000 more patients during the latest doctors’ strike compared with last year’s industrial action. Early data shows that 93% of planned operations, tests and ...

As numbers surge this year, Butterfly Conservation said sightings in unexpected places tell an important story about climate change.

Countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, where they will hope to break a deadlock in talks for a legally binding agreement on plastics.