Stark difference in public health spending across Greater Manchester

New figures show a stark difference the investment in public services across Greater Manchester boroughs.

According to GP magazine Pulse, 90% of councils in England are slashing weight management, sexual health and addiction services.

In Stockport, public health investment has gone up by more than three million pounds in the last five years, with an overall improvement of 1%.

While in Rochdale, drugs and alcohol services have been impacted, with a 28% cut in funding, a drop of more than two million pounds since 2014.

Elinor's mum struggled with alcohol abuse when she was growing up, she said they needed help to deal with it:

"I managed to pull through with my education and I had a lot of anxiety about friendships and I was very paranoid. I never gave my feelings validation so I never thought that I had the right to feel this way because it wasn't me going through the problems, I was just around it.

" I was worrying about my brother. There was a case when I came home one night and there were police at the door because my mum had made my sister concerned, but obviously that was not her.

"I was in denial basically about the whole situation for a really long time and I was, sort of, as it came towards college, I suffered a lot with anxiety and had really bad anxiety attacks."