Jodrell Bank UNESCO global Nomination for World Heritage Site

Jodrell Bank Observatory is aiming to join the Taj Mahal and Stonehenge on the international heritage stage. The University of Manchester’s site in Cheshire has...

Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies

They say life begins at 50. And for artist Steve Capper, everything came into focus when he took early retirement at 52. Spending 30 years...

Simon Armitage, the UK Poet Laureate, convenes 30 poets to create a new response...

  Simon Armitage, the UK Poet Laureate, has convened 30 poets from around the world to create a new response to the Universal Declaration of...

From Prison to Playwright – Micky Dacks brings artistic opportunities for young people to...

Salford Loading, the collaboration between visual arts charity The Art House and Quayside MediaCity, has welcomed Salford-based charity I4YPC through its doors to deliver...

New campaign urges Greater Manchester businesses to support region’s young people led by their...

It will be hard to miss a new campaign launching today featuring some of the young people who have been helped by Manchester charity Greater...

Making post-war Manchester: visions of an unmade city

WE THINK we are familiar with Manchester’s skyline and city centre landmarks. But what about the alternative Manchester that might have been? During the 1960s...

Eerie reminders of a nuclear Armageddon in Oldham

The Cold War may have thawed out many years ago but a new collection of images released by Oldham Council takes a step back...

The Manchester Charity Turning back the Tide in Yemen

n the days after the UN once again highlighted a Yemen on the brink of famine, the world’s eyes have turned to the work...

New photography exhibition to show unseen images of Salford and Cheetham Hill

An exhibition of photographs from the 1950s and 1960s is set to open in Manchester that is sure to bring memories flooding back for...

Review-Shed Exploded View at the Royal Exchange

"There was a fork in her face. An actual fork. He dug a fork into her face. A fork stood on end in her...