What’s your story?

A group of Manchester young carers have created an anthology, including topics from loneliness to sexuality, to be launched at a special event in...

Manchester Opera for the masses?

A new Manchester based initiative is aiming to break the stereotyping of opera and bring it to a wider audience. The Manchester Opera Ensemble, founded...

Improvements but Manchester is still lagging behinds says latest State of the City report

Manchester remains a place where people want to live, work and invest, as well as visit. However, as in previous reports, there is no...

Former Manchester student is nominated for an Oscar-for the second time

Orlando von Einsiedel, a former Anthropology student of The University of Manchester, has been nominated for an Oscar in the short documentary category -...

Compulsive buying explained

New research could explain compulsive buying, help develop a new screening tool to diagnose the condition and help people avoid the worst consequences of...

100 years ago in Manchester.

The end is not in sight was the message from King George.More men and yet more are wanted to keep my armies in the...

Happy Birthday Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born one hundred years ago this weekend. Born in Manchester, he was a writer and composer who is regarded as one of...

2017-A Time for change

The second city is in for an exciting year in 2017.In May we will have a new elected Mayor for the region, before that...

It’s Alright: A Celebration of Manchester’s Rave Heritage 1985-1995

A one-off collaborative event exploring what it means to grow up and grow old with rave culture in Greater Manchester is taking place this summer. It's...

Wordsworth-The War Poet?

A major exhibition portrays Wordsworth as one of the nation’s greatest war poets. The nineteenth century poet famous for wandering ‘lonely as a cloud’ on...