Not Quite Light Festival Returns: Art, Debate, Music and Architecture for the People of...

The award-winning Not Quite Light Festival has announced that its revival edition will be taking place in Swinton at various locations across the Salford...

“It is perfect madness”-How the Liverpool to Manchester Railway was built

This week saw the Mayors of Greater Manchester and Liverpool meet at Rainhill Station to announce  that they will create a Liverpool-Manchester Railway Board...

Angel Meadow launches HOME’s new season

The name Angel Meadow conjures up the worse side of rapid industrialization, it was to Engels simply 'hell on earth', but this month it...

100 years old: Ewan Maccoll -one of Salford’s Greatest

This Sunday is the one hundredth anniversary of Salford's own Ewan Maccoll, whose Song Dirty Old Town would immortalize the city. Born James Henry Miller...

Crowds gather to commemorate Peterloo anniversary

A crowd of around one thousand gathered outside Manchester Central this afternoon, commemorating the events of one hundred and ninety six years ago near...

Government unveils plans to mark centenary of The Third Battle of Ypres

Descendants of those who fought at the Third Battle of Ypres will be invited to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Tyne Cot Cemetery...

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...

More than just a war artist-Wydham Lewis at IWM North

It's the biggest exhibition of Wydham Lewis' work since 1956 and it's come to Manchester-we went to take a look One story about Wydham Lewis...

Coffee cups saved from landfill come back to life to make Manchester’s gardens greener

The first recycled products to be made from Manchester’s used coffee cups have been put into use in Old Trafford’s Centenary Gardens. Almost 30,000 used...

Tea for Two with a View

They say that good things don’t last a lifetime, but I firmly believe that afternoon tea will last forever. Whilst it may have been...