As a new report describes the UK's paternity leave policy as "one of the worst in the developed world", we speak to a new father, a campaigner and a business …

A man who plied his girlfriend with a lethal dose of cocaine before strangling her on the night she tried to leave him has been jailed for at least 35 …

One of the most famous faces from EastEnders is playing a major recurring role throughout the new series of Doctor Who which returns on Saturday. Anita Dobson, who starred as …

A teenager accused of stabbing a man to death has told a jury he paid a friend to buy him knives online on two occasions because he was underage. Jacob …

A church-run food bank said it had one of its "craziest" donations to date after receiving food from a cargo vessel at the centre of a North Sea collision. Volunteers …

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is planning to transfer more than 1,000 jobs to Blackpool. The move, also confirmed by Blackpool Council, will be at the heart of the Talbot …

Here in the North West we are fortunate to have incredible countryside, bustling cities, award-winning beaches and not forgetting incredibly friendly northerners. This year I wanted to reflect on the …

The wife of a cancer fundraiser who died with a brain tumour has said he did not allow "the disease to define or defeat him", but rather chose to "focus …

The Daily Mail says NHS patients will soon be able to get weight-loss jabs for the price of a prescription – less than £10. It says that under a pilot …

Beatrix Potter's popular character Peter Rabbit has been chosen as the design for an art trail's money-raising statues. Forty individually decorated statues of the sketchbook rabbit will be dotted around …