Manchester researchers map out the city’s diverse language landscape

A team of researchers from The University of Manchester has embarked on a project to map multilingual signs around the city, in an effort...

Tatton Hall continues its climb in the country’s visitor attractions

Cheshire's Tatton Park is now the 17th most visited paid for attraction in England, according to new figures released by Visit England. The park enjoyed...

Northern Quarter Company’s Shipping Container plan for pop up Car Parks

When the former Dobbins store on Northern Quarter's Oldham Street burnt down three years ago and replaced with a pop up car park, Mancunians...

I think I’m getting more political as I get older

'I am a Socialist' says playwright and folk singer Lizzie Nunnery. " and if there is one good thing about the rise of Corbynism then...

Region’s Ash Trees are under threat from as Dieback makes heads north.

The disease that has been destroying England's ash trees has arrived in Greater Manchester. The publication of updated maps from the Forestry Commission has confirmed...

Early Burgess on show at Central Library in new Exhibition

A new exhibition charting Anthony Burgess's early years in Manchester has opened. Manchester Made Me follows the writer's early years in the city from the...

Lowry Theatre to celebrate thirty years of Shirley Valentine 

Willy Russell’s heart-warming comedy Shirley Valentine premiered in 1986 and took the world by storm. In celebration of its 30th Anniversary the first major...

The story of the 1949 Saddleworth air crash

The 1949 air crash of  DC-3 above Dovestone's Reservoir has been in the news in recent days over speculation that a man found dead...

Beckett trilogy heads to the Lowry

A trilogy of Samuel Beckett plays performed by actress Lisa Dwan, will be coming to the Lowry Theatre in September for their only northern...

An exhibition on the thingness of things in the age of the thingless medium.

A new exhibition opening at Castlefield Gallery explores the potential that the digital world has for giving art works a second life Much of our...