Fifty-two-year-old Ms Lindsay, best known for playing the Rovers Return landlady Shelley Unwin on the ITV soap set in Greater ...

A war memorial fundraiser who has dedicated 30 years to preserving local history in Leicestershire has been appointed an MBE ...

The Christmas Blitz that came to Manchester and Salford on December 22-24, 1940, remains one of the darkest periods in our ...

One person has been killed and another seriously injured after a one-vehicle crash in Salford. A section of Cadishead Way, ...

Cranford Grange care home in Knutsford, run by Care UK, earns 'Veteran Friendly' status for outstanding support of armed forces veterans in Cheshire.

Whether it's the Pennine Way's Lancashire roots, lakeland writer Alfred Wainwright's love of Blackburn or 'disappearing ...

A LANCASHIRE writer and walking guide is highlighting parts of northern history he feels are little-known and deserve greater ...

The Imperial War Museum has been left facing festive accusations of attempting to "reframe history" with "woke appeal" through a new digital tour exploring LGBTQ+ experiences during wartime. Launched ...

There’s much more to Wigan than its notoriety as the birthplace of George Formby, George Orwell’s book The Road to Wigan Pier ...

A new film dramatizes Ann Lee’s path from 18th-century England to upstate New York, where she founded the Shakers and ...

If you have never heard of the author, there’s a reason: as revealed at this year’s Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in September, Evelyn Clarke is the pseudonym for a collaborative project by ...

Fond farewells have been said to some of the north-west of England's biggest names in entertainment, public life and sport ...