Cotton, Brazil and Manchester
With the 2014 Football World Cup starting in Brazil, About Manchester takes a look at the region's connections with the South America Country.
In a...
100 years ago in Manchester
A Beswick man who had been invalidated home told the story of how he had come face to face with the enemy on the...
Bacteria could help peat’s climate change challenge
In one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) demonstrated how microbes living in peat can help conservation...
1914 Day by Day in Manchester.
Over the weekend, The Manchester First Battalion had marched to Heaton Park and was reported to be settling down well after a seven mile...
New report sets out plans for integrated Northern transport policy
A new report out this morning provides a blueprint for an integrated transport system that could transform the North's economic prospects. Transport for the North,...
DifRent launches luxury new build private rental apartments in Eccles
A leading provider of homes for private rent in the North West, is all set to launch 74 new private rental apartments at its...
100 years ago in Manchester
New blackout regulations were introduced instructing that all windows and skylights be affectively shaded or obscured so that no. Right light be visible outside.The...
£73m plan to transform Stockport
As part of the ambitious programme of investment and improvements underway by Stockport Council, a major plan to transform the access and transportation in...
100 years ago in Manchester
The effects of war on the cost of living were being felt , the price of meat in particular had seen increases of 1...
September 1914 Day by Day in Manchester
The news reaching Manchester this morning was of three British cruisers sank in the North Sea by German submarines.
Reports from the scene about survivors...