Line-up revealed for 2024 Rochdale Borough Festival of Ideas
The line-up has been revealed for the new Rochdale Borough Festival of Ideas, which is being staged from Monday, 4 March 2024 to Saturday,...
I had two pieces of luck in my life and one was being born...
"Along the way, I went from a chain-smoking student living hand to mouth, always in danger of having my phone cut off, a visit...
The difficult birth of the Royal Manchester College of Music
The Royal Manchester College of Music once occupied the site on Oxford Road where the current Contact Theatre now occupies.Often confused with the Royal...
A journey back into Blitz Britain at Imperial War Museum North
It's nearly seventy five years since German bombers attacked Manchester and memories of the event are fading with only children of the time still...
2016 at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry
As Manchester begins its year as European City of Science 2016, the Museum of Science and Industry is putting the finishing touches to its...
Manchester’s Hilton Deansgate launches Junior Masterchef programme
Podium Restaurant at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate has launched a chef-mentoring scheme that aims to develop young emerging talent in the kitchen.
The Junior Chef...
Environmentally-friendly graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics
Manchester's wonder material Graphene could be used for a new method for producing conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based inks.
The discovery opens up new possibilities...
Manchester Museum responds to refugee crisis with its latest acquisition
In collecting and displaying a refugee’s life jacket, Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, is actively engaging visitors with one of the...
Mexican extravaganza coming to Manchester’s Albert Hall
This summer, Mexico’s iconic masked superheroes will be coming to the UK to take part in “The Greatest Spectacle of Lucha Libre”, an electrifying...
Monty the bee lands in Monton
A giant bee has landed in Monton to celebrate the buzz of the up and coming village.
The two storey high piece of street art...