Online gaming has become a significant part of social life, transforming how communities interact and connect. In Manchester, ...

Football legend Gary Neville has worked with Manchester City Council to develop a new office space housing the likes of ...

Natalia Schwartz runs monthly all-female comedy night ‘Bitches in Stitches’ at The Fitzgerald in The Northern Quarter, and ...

Manchester Fashion Week returned to the city this week after a ten year absence. The opening panel, hosted by sustainable fashion consultancy Eco Age set the tone by framing Manchester as a “catalyst ...

On 2 January 1975, six members of the Manchester Gay Alliance 1973, set up a helpline. Through pamphlets handed out at gay-friendly hubs, they discreetly advertised a phone number offering free, ...

People in the north of England are the most dissatisfied with Sir Keir Starmer with 77 percent feeling this way and data shows support for Reform, but not so, for the Green Party. The Prime Minister ...

Independent music venue Retro is being demolished in August 2025 to make way for a major £1.7 billion project called the ‘Sister Masterplan’. Retro, formerly known as the Swinging Sporran, has stood ...

UK universities saw their first decline in student enrolment rates in nearly a decade in the academic year 2023/2024. The overall decrease was 1.1%, with a greater decline in the North West of England ...

Manchester-based organisations received more Arts Council funding than those in any other UK local authority over the last year. Arts Council England funded 607 projects based in the city of ...

It seems unfortunate to say it, but John Steinbeck’s classic novella Of Mice and Men is just as relevant today as it was when it was first written. This excellent new staging from director Sarah ...

Greater Manchester Police, GMP, has held an event to engage with the LGBTQ+ community while Manchester City Council have sought to rectify graffiti and vandalism in the area, as part of its action ...

ADHD is no laughing matter. But for Trafford-based comedian and musician Edy Hurst, it’s provided the material for a new one-man show which he hopes will show an audience the inner-workings of his ...