Levels of voter apathy are soaring in Greater Manchester, a region with a rich political history, a report says.

A mobile health unit offers blood pressure checks and health advice to residents of a Cumbrian town.

A scheme offers a helping hand to people with mobility problems who want to shop in a Cumbria town.

Peel and St Georges play out a 1-1 draw in the Sure Mobile Premiership at Glencrutchery Road on Saturday.

Passengers on Glasgow's Subway network are now able to use their mobile phones underground.

Mobile phone customers in the Channel Islands will be able to switch operator and keep their number from Monday.

A Northamptonshire council is looking at the possibility of scrapping its entire fleet of mobile speed cameras.

Sending text or downloading data while abroad looks set to get cheaper as Brussels backs caps on roaming charges.

Finish mobile phone giant Nokia says it will stop selling handsets in Japan after struggling to grow its market share there.

Two teenage girls who robbed an 11-year-old girl of her mobile phone in Aberdeen are being hunted by police.

A 16-year-old boy is robbed of his mobile telephone while walking to work in central Bristol.

Hannah Foster was murdered after her 999 call was judged to be accidental and cut off. But how do police decide if an emergency call is a misdial or a desperate last plea for help?

Mobile net growth is growing eight times faster than PC-based access.

Two masked men with knives force their way into a house to steal money and mobile phones.

Douglas Royal beat fierce rivals Rushen United 2-0 to go top of the Sure Mobile Women's League.

How police put together the jigsaw which would identify Hannah's killer.

Peel defeat Laxey to move five points clear at the top of the Sure Mobile Premier League.

Prisoners caught with mobile phones are to have their sentences increased in a bid to stop crime bosses organising behind bars.

What happened to Gordon Brown's 2002 pledge to create mobile job centres to reach the long-term unemployed?

One of Oxfordshire's train operators is looking at ways to stop people using mobile phones in quiet zones.