BBC’s ‘Men Who Sleep in Cars’: A poignant look into undiscovered homelessness 

'They catch Mancunia's infectious yawn, and this great city holds them in its palm'. As the title suggests, BBC Four’s ‘Men Who Sleep in Cars’...

A piece of history returns to Manchester’s Mayfield Station

The Mayfield Partnership, with help from its social media followers, has restored and reinstated an original wooden name sign on the disused Mayfield Railway...

Jurys Inn Manchester unveils £2.9 million new look, following a major refurbishment, complete with...

Jurys Inn Manchester unveiled its brand new look following an extensive £2.9 million transformation. The hotel is completely unrecognisable; with stylish new bedrooms, open...

Can the human voice really shatter a wine glass?

That butt of many jokes and film scenes is being examined by the BBC with the help of Manchester Science Festival and the University of Salford. Trailing...

All Aboard the New Bar! Slug and Lettuce to Shake Things up in Manchester...

Mancunians will be excited to hear that a brand-new Slug and Lettuce bar is opening in Manchester Piccadilly! Formerly a Missoula bar, the venue...

There’s a buzz around the Ordsall Chord

There was no sting in the tail for 30,000 honey bees that made their temporary home on the site of the major railway upgrade...

Lockie: Regrets … part II

Where were we? Oh, yeah ... So, we decided to launch a record label. Pete Fulwell our manager helped us do all the real, complicated business...

Hulme Manchester – the proper story of a social housing disaster

Archive footage, unseen photos and real life community interviews make up a  stunning new film, HULME: the documentary, telling the proper, unheard story of Hulme...

A call for people’s memories of Manchester Town Hall has been issued on the...

The Grade I-listed masterpiece, considered one of the nation’s finest examples of Victorian architecture, has stood at the heart of the city’s life since...

Lockie: 12 reasons to visit The Printworks

Following some unfair criticism of the Printworks on other websites recently, we at 'About MCR' decided to redress the balance with these 12 points...