Welcome Bishop Walker

Manchester has a new Bishop it might have escaped your notice. The Right Reverend David Walker was enthroned as the 12th Bishop of Manchester at...

MMU Professor is shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize

Manchester Metropolitan University Professor of Poetry Michael Roberts has been nominated for another award for his latest poetry collection, Drysalter. Michael has been shortlisted for...

Hotpot comes tops on Lancashire Day

It may have escaped your notice but today is Lancashire Day.However if we believe the findings of a local agency survey it seems that...

Competition to photograph Manchester’s hidden gems

The Manchester office property consultancy GVA has announced that it is to sponsor an inaugural Open Photography Competition. The Company has created the competition in...

United Legend Foulkes dies

This morning Manchester United confirmed the sad news that Bill Foulkes, former team captain and survivor of the 1958 Munich Air Disaster has died...

Culture in Manchester:Institutions and Urban Change

A new book that is out this week brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an...

Manchester wonder material set to help the fight against AIDS

Manchester discovered wonder material Graphene that is set to revolutionise the twenty first century is going to be used to create thinner and stronger...

Morrissey’s tirade on modern Britain

Hot on the heels of his biography, Manchester's Stephen Patrick Morrissey has launched a tirade against against everything from the monarchy to Sarah Palin...

Revealed-Manchester’s Singing Tree celebrates the birth of Christ

Those who have passed through the Christmas street markets in Manchester's St Ann's Square may have noticed a glaring omission from the usual...

Hull named Britain’s 2017 Capital of Culture

The land of Philip Larkin, William Wilberforce, The Ferens Gallery and the HouseMartins has been named as the country's next capital of culture. It beat...