Shourjo starts your day with news headlines, business, sport and music.
Alison and Phil find out why we are turning from black tea to herbal offerings and look at green bins in Trafford three months on from the charge imposed to collect garden waste.
Mike chats Paul Boon from Salford who has just completed the so-called Superhero Triathlon to raise money for the charity Caudwell Children.
Becky speaks to fiction writer, Maggie O'Farrell, about his memoirs including how she tells the story of her 17 brushes with death.
Emma finds out how work will continue on the M60 smart motorway until next summer.
Jimmy Wagg is live at Houldsworth Working Men's Club talking about Manchester City with former City goalkeeper Tony Coton and the Reddish Blues branch of the City supporters' club.
Johnny hears from the hotel where you can hire a goldfish to keep you company and one which survived after being nabbed by a cat plus bollards designed to look like children.
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