It’s Cooking Good-Crowdfunding scheme launched to produce an Ancoats and Northern Quarter cookbook

A Crowdfunding venture has been launched In Manchester to raise funds to produce an Ancoats and Northern Quarter cookbook, “It’s Cooking Good!” Featuring over 20...

Young musicians at Chetham’s School of Music are sharing a major new Christmas concert...

Young musicians at Chetham’s School of Music are sharing a major new Christmas concert with schools across the UK, in a bid to bring...

Winner of RSPB founder Emily Williamson statue to be unveiled in Didsbury is announced

After the casting of thousands of public votes Eve Shepherd has been chosen as the sculptor who will create a statue of RSPB founder...

Bill’s Gin and other stories

Bill Collinson, the man behind Bill's Restaurant on John Dalton Street has been in Manchester this week as the chain launches its summer menu...

First location announced for Manchester’s 50 Windows of Creativity project

Dandara Living’s Chapel Wharf development has been announced as one of the first locations for this year’s 50 Windows of Creativity – a new...

A Manchester first-Marvellous machines and the charm of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang inventor...

From wonderous mechanical creations springing to life and turning your body into a machine, to toy making and lifting a mini, there’s a perfect...

Manchester Velodrome is hosting a special event on World Book for a thousand children

World Book Day, the charity behind the world’s biggest celebration of reading for pleasure, in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, has teamed up...

Cerys and Clinton talk food in Salford

Back in the 1990’s if someone had said that in 20 years Clint Boon of the Inspiral Carpets and Cerys Matthews of Catatonia would...

Introducing Around Manchester

New  book reveals forgotten stories of Manchester and its surrounding areas people and places About Manchester has published its first book, Around Manchester, uncovering forgotten...

Review-Great Expectations Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester

Do we really need another production of the Dickens Classic "Great Expectations" asks Paul Smalley?  Well this adaptation transposes ourselves from the mid 19th Century...