The Latest Breaking News from BBC Radio Manchester

Andy Burnham to back electoral reform if he becomes prime minister

Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate wants to make politics ‘less point-scoring, more problem-solving’

The Guardian - UK · May 21

Rishi Sunak refuses to endorse Suella Braverman’s claim multiculturalism has failed – as it happened

The PM instead praised the UK’s ‘fantastic multicultural democracy’, saying the nation has done an ‘incredible job of integrating people’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

BBC Radio Manchester star sparks calls for him to join Strictly Come Dancing line-up for 2023

Broadcaster Jsky is looking to tear up the dancefloor with his best asset - his legs

Manchester Evening News · May 31, 2023

BBC radio star releases new song inspired by experiences of racism in Manchester's Gay Village

Singer and songwriter Jsky had early negative experiences of the Canal Street area

Manchester Evening News · Jan 28, 2023

Andy Burnham will 'pull out all the stops' to save bus services under threat

Diamond announced cuts to services in and around Bolton last week

Manchester Evening News · Jan 27, 2023

The £276m of key Greater Manchester projects snubbed for Levelling Up cash

Three schemes were successful, but many more were not

Manchester Evening News · Jan 22, 2023

The Mancunian Way: Strangeways, off you pop

A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours - Manchester Council Strangeways prison out of city

Manchester Evening News · Dec 3, 2022

'We prioritise cars and vans too much in Greater Manchester', Andy Burnham says

The mayor said people won't drive right into the city centre in future

Manchester Evening News · Dec 2, 2022

BBC radio presenter shows off fabulous legs in racy new video as he announces 'huge honour' in his career

The LGBTQ+ star is showing off one of his best assets

Manchester Evening News · Nov 30, 2022

'Housing in Rochdale needs investment': Andy Burnham asks why £1m pulled following Awaab Ishak death

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, which owns and manages the Freehold estate where Awaab Ishak lived, has been stripped of a £1m government grant after the housing association was found to have failed to fix the mould which led to the two-year-old's death

Manchester Evening News · Nov 24, 2022