Pioneering study of Greater Manchester’s waterways finds record levels of micro plastics
Researchers from The University of Manchester are calling for tighter regulations on waste flowing into urban waterways, after the first study of its kind...
Manchester Theatre Awards 2017 revealed
Sheridan Smith and Danny Mac were among the winners at the Manchester Theatre Awards which were announced at The Lowry on Friday.
Presented by comedian...
Manchester based author once dismissed for being “too African” has won a major literary...
Dr Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has been awarded the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, which includes a grant of $165,000, to support her writing.
Jennifer, a...
Could otters be returning to Greater Manchester?
Recent sightings of otters are suggesting that the heavily industrialised rivers in Greater Manchester are showing signs of significant improvement, encouraging them to come...
Mayfield’s Winter Wonderland
Plans for a proposed new park in Manchester city centre will be going on display as part of a public consultation into the masterplan...
Review-Madama Butterfly at the Lowry
Someone once said that people don’t like opera,they only come for the interval.
Well if you came for the interval for Opera North’s adaptation of...
A Hattrick of exciting new retailers announced for Oxford Road’s hatch
Hatch, Manchester’s intriguing new pop-up retail and leisure destination, is welcoming three new exciting retailers to its ever-evolving line-up.
Beautiful bespoke florist The Beehive, organic...
Tiny 127 million year old fossil sheds light on early birds
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists at the University of Manchester understand how early avians came into the world...
The man whose legacy in Aircraft production in Manchester will live on
One of the memories that Eric remembers is that of his grandfather just three months before his death at the age of cycling around...
Call to people to hunt for our secret, forgotten or unknown memorials
A call for people to reveal the region's more obscure memorials has been made by Historic England.
The organisation wants photographs and information about lesser-known memorials,...