Adopt a bee for the honey in your life this Valentine’s Day
Don’t just wing it with flowers and chocolates this Valentine’s Day, give your loved one an un-BEE-lievably unique gift, all in aid...
Was Ewan MacColl spying on his mates for Special Branch?
2016, and I’m interviewing the late musician and musicologist CP Lee. The subject of Ewan MacColl comes up, whereupon the air turns suddenly blue....
A fantastic Salfordian food festival is heading our way
Glasses of a new Salford beer will be raised to toast the launch of Salford’s Food and Drink Fortnight.
The popular foodie fortnight is now...
Music lovers uniting to create track from 1980s toys and memorabilia
Manchester’s iconic music production school, Spirit Studios, is kicking off a year of special events centred around creating, making and curating, to celebrate its 40th anniversary, starting with...
There’s an elephant in our railway station
Commuters travelling through Manchester’s Piccadilly Station will be in for a surprise over the next few days as they will be confronted by the...
Toast rack makeover
Plans have been revealed to refurbish and re-use the post-war grade II listed Hollings Park Campus buildings into residential use including retail space at...
Danny Moran: how come this fear?
A long few weeks. How come this fear? How come everything that once seemed certain seems now just one mis-step away from the clown...
It was far from blue on a Monday at the Ivy
Much as I enjoyed watching the chocolate bomb being served on the next table, my brain won the battle over my eyes.
Yes just two...
One big summer in Manchester
Manchester Jazz Festival, Science in the City, The Manchester Picnic, sponsored by the Co-op, and Manchester Specialist Markets come together to celebrate the start...
Nanobots pass first stage in ‘fantastic voyage’ from fiction to fact
A team of scientists have created a new generation of tiny remote controlled nanorobots which could one day allow doctors to diagnose disease and...