How smoking weed can affect your sperm size say Manchester scientists

Young men who use cannabis may be putting their fertility at risk by inadvertently affecting the size and shape of their sperm according to...

Indy Book market returns to St Ann’s

The Manchester Indie Book Market, now in its sixth year returns to St Ann's Square this weekend. It is the largest open-to-the-public book market specialising...

New book aims to explore memories of D Day

The story of D-Day has become very Americanised according to a Manchester historian, who has contributed a chapter on how Britain remembers the historic...

Manchester voluntary Groups honoured in the Queens’s awards

Thirteen Greater Manchester groups have been honoured in Queen's Award for Voluntary Service 2014. This unique UK national honour was created over a decade ago...

It’s all black and white for latest Graphene research

Researchers at the University of Manchester have discovered that combining black and white graphene can change the electronic properties of the one-atom thick...

Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

A new show, Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box is coming to Manchester Museum in June. Written and performed by the...

Iconic 1960’s Manchester Lowry expected to fetch £2-3 million in Sotheby sale.

An painting by Lowry unseen for many years is expected to fetch between two and three million pounds at an auction at Sotheby's in...

Whitworth Park Pleasure, play and Politics

A new exhibition is examining how Manchester’s Whitworth Park has changed over time. Manchester Museum’s Whitworth Park: Pleasure, Play and Politics is the result...

2006 vintage Chelsea is greatest English football team of all time, says Salford University...

It probably won't go down too well across the region but after inputting the results of more than 200,000 football matches into his highly...

The pitter patter of tiny trotters

Chester Zoo is celebrating some new arrivals this May with the birth of a Visayan Warty Pig. The sex of the zoo’s latest youngster, which...