Piccadilly Gardens reopens for business

The fencing has come down in Piccadilly Gardens marking the end of the major programme and a new beginning for the public space as...

Let’s get Manchester reading

A campaign to inspire more people in Manchester to get reading has launched today, as part of the Read Manchester campaign from Manchester City...

Green light for £60m Citylabs campus expansion

MANCHESTER City Council has approved plans from leading science and technology park operator Manchester Science Partnerships for a £60m investment in a two-phase expansion...

Meet the Prestwich women living on £1 a day to raise money for a...

Madeleine Penfold, a photographer from Prestwich in Manchester, is on a mission to raise £10,000 to renovate the Erenjang nursery school in Kotu in...

Greater Manchester Mayoral Candidate Interview Jane Brophy

In the next of our interviews with just a week to go before the Greater Manchester Mayoral elections, we talk to the Liberal Democrat...

It’s Alright: A Celebration of Manchester’s Rave Heritage 1985-1995

A one-off collaborative event exploring what it means to grow up and grow old with rave culture in Greater Manchester is taking place this summer. It's...

New £3m wing at Gorton Monastery is open for business

The new £3m Welcome Wing at Gorton Monastery, in Gorton, Manchester is now open, enabling community and learning activities to take place every day...

Rare 1960s photos of LS Lowry ‘at home’ discovered in attic of celebrated photographer

Intimate photographs of LS Lowry at his home in Mottram-in-Longdendale in 1966 are to go on display at The Lowry for the first time...

Former Hyde businesswomen joins Dragon’s Den

A former Hyde resident who left school at sixteen and later set up a multi million pound business is to join the panel at...

Manchester Modernist Society explore four decades of Manchester’s changing landscape in new publication 

Friday 21 April will see the Manchester Modernist Society launch ‘Decades’, an original publication tracking Manchester’s journey from Victorian industrial sprawl, emerging from the...