New beginnings as first baby is born at new birth centre in Salford
A new birth centre has officially opened at Ingleside in Salford – 80 years after it was first proposed – and has seen its...
People of Manchester asked to tell the story of the city’s Black and Asian...
Historic England is calling on individuals, families and communities in Manchester to help tell the story of the city’s Black and Asian heritage over the last...
How digging up a Moss Side nightclub led to a Lottery Award
MANCHESTER’s Moss Side district has had its’ share of social turmoil but a University project to recognise its historic multicultural music scene has been...
Forgotten Lancashire poems written during misery of cotton famine found
Hundreds of moving poems written by desperate Lancashire cotton workers facing hunger and homelessness because of the American Civil War have been uncovered by...
To Stop Her Mouth Contemporary art installation exposes 1800s scandal that shocked society
In 1826,an heiress Ellen Turner was kidnapped by a fortune hunter,taken to Gretna Green and forced into a marriage.
The scandal shocked the country and...
Disappearing into Black Holes
If you took the mass of our sun and stuffed it into a space the size of Manchester, you would create an area so...
Creating a buzz-Bee-themed paper straws have been launched at bars and restaurants across Greater...
Their arrival is part of a growing range of initiatives that all contribute towards the Mayor’s aim of a plastic-free Greater Manchester by 2020...
Canon Wray’s Sock Appeal for the homeless returns to Manchester Cathedral
The Canon Wray Sock Appeal is back for its fourth year.
Manchester Cathedral can find a good home for any pairs of new, warm socks...
Manchester scientists use Nobel-prize winning chemistry for clean energy breakthrough
Scientists have used a Nobel-prize winning Chemistry technique on a mixture of metals to potentially reduce the cost of fuel cells used...
Spot the knife-GMP launches campaign for public to ‘open your eyes to knives’
Following recent events across Greater Manchester and the rest of the country, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is urging members of the public...