After a busy seven days for our team of dedicated reporters, these are the stories that caught your attention the most.

Kyren Wilson shrugged off a slow start to take a commanding lead over Lei Peifan at the end of the opening session of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.

Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, was taking a woman out for a first date when the crash took place near the Denton roundabout on April 9.

Magistrates were told that a woman in the car with Mazyar Azarbonyad was on her first date with him and he was taking her home.

A PUBLIC consultation into the future of Cumbria’s democratic makeup has ended. The consultation was launched to gather the views of Cumbrians over the plans to have a directly elected mayor of the ...

A report in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper published on Saturday said the quake’s death toll had reached 3,726.

Francis and Mr Vance have tangled over migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy and his progressive ...

The sun will largely be covered across Saturday, but the rain will also be kept at bay, with temperatures reaching 14 degrees.

Ministers hope the tool will perform in 40 seconds tasks that take around one to two hours for planners to complete.

A British Hindu monk is running her first London Marathon to help challenge stereotypes and to inspire a new generation with ancient wisdom. Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya, a spiritual leader at ...

Furness and District Tractor Run have announced that there will be a summer event this year. Kicking off the start of summer, the tractor run will return on Sunday June 1. The tractor run will support ...