Photo archive reveals life in one week of England’s lockdown
Images of lockdown England are to enter the nation’s historic archive.
Historic England has released 200 images from over 3,000 submitted.
The call-out was the first...
Build back better with our markets plea to Manchester’s leaders
The people behind Levenshulme Market and Grub have written a open letter to the people of Manchester today well as those people in local...
£50 billion Plan for Nature’ should be at the heart of Northern recovery plan
The government should work with local leaders to put nature at the heart of its plans for economic recovery in the North, the leading...
Keep It In The Day – A poem for now by the people of...
Working with award-winning writer and theatre-maker Chris Thorpe, the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Local Exchange Ambassadors from Leigh, Tameside and Cheetham Hill have come together...
Music stars and residents join together for mass doorstep singalong
Thousands of residents from across the city-region threw open their windows and took to their doorsteps and balconies to join Together in One Voice,...
Dead Sea Scrolls: how we accidentally discovered missing text – in Manchester
We really didn’t mean to find any missing texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The 2,000-year-old scrolls were found in the Qumran caves next to...
Review: Scarlett Moffatt’s Wants to Believe podcast
In one of my previous diary updates, I mentioned Scarlett Moffatt and her boyfriend Scott Dobinson have a new podcast about uncovering the truth...
Dippy virtual tour launched
The Natural History’s Museum’s famous dinosaur cast, Dippy, which is currently under temporary lockdown at Number One Riverside, Rochdale, has been brought into people’s...
UK needs a ‘transformational’ post-pandemic green economic rescue package – here’s what it looks...
The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic should not disguise the necessity of tackling the climate emergency, says research from Manchester Metropolitan...
Bells of Manchester Cathedral will ring out to remember the 22
Manchester Cathedral’s bells will ring out 22 times to remember the victims of the Arena Bombing – despite restrictions caused by the coronavirus.
But this...