Dirty Martini launches in City Centre

A flurry of VIP guests sipped expertly crafted cocktails and danced the night away at the glamorous launch party last night. VIP guests were treated...

Winners of Manchester Writing School announced

Sakinah Hofler has been awarded the £10,000 Manchester Fiction Prize while the Poetry Prize judges awarded £5,000 each to joint winners Romalyn Ante and...

Manchester’s First Town Hall

Manchester's Gothic Town Hall closes this weekend ......but how many people know that the building that was opened in 1877 was not Manchester's First...

Manchester restaurants raise more than £1.1 million to help combat child hunger

Manchester restaurants, including , Hawksmoor, Menagerie, Bundobust and Don Giovanni, have helped Action Against Hunger to raise an astonishing £1.1 million in the international non-governmental organization's...

Pioneering study of Greater Manchester’s waterways finds record levels of micro plastics

Researchers from The University of Manchester are calling for tighter regulations on waste flowing into urban waterways, after the first study of its kind...

A bright year for Bury based JD Sports

Bury based JD Sports has brought some light to the gloomy world of retail this morning as the Company reported its profits jumped 24 per...

Artworks inspired by Manchester’s response to terror attack go on display

Paintings inspired by Manchester’s response to last year’s terror attack will be exhibited by an alumna and former associate lecturer at Manchester School of...

St Michael’s £200m City Centre scheme gets the final go ahead

The landmark Manchester city centre  project St Michael’s will go-ahead – after the Secretary of State confirmed that the application will not be called...

Spectacular frog identified as new species and is named after curator’s three year old...

One of the world’s most spectacular frogs has been identified as a new species after 20 years of painstaking research at The University of...

The Lume hotel celebrates official opening on Oxford Road

The new 19-storey hotel development The Lume, which is dual branded with both Crowne Plaza® and Staybridge Suites® hotel brands, has officially opened and...