New Project to create a Greater Manchester Wildlife Park
A zoo in Salford? It's more than just a pipe dream for thirty three year old recruitment manager Daniel Mortell. About Manchester talks to...
Historic Dunkirk Evacuation footage found at The University of Manchester Library
Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The...
Lasting legacy of First World War Hospital at Dunham Massey to launch at RHS...
A rose commemorating a First World War hospital and its patients is being launched at RHS Chelsea this afternoon.
Rosa ‘Stamford’s Sanctuary’ takes its name...
100 years ago in Manchester
As more news about the sinking of the Lusitania arrived, anti German riots break out across Manchester.
Cunard's offices in Manchester were continually besieged as...
Oldham uncovers tales of its Lusitania residents
One hundred years ago today the Lusitania set sail from New York. Oldham Council archivists have unearthed details of a maritime tragedy 100 years ago...
World’s biggest Radio telescope to be run out of Jodrell Bank
More than two hundred jobs could be coming to the region following the announcement that Jodrell Bank will be the new home for an...
Much more than Mother’s Ruin
About Manchester travels to Warrington and looks at the remarkable history of one of the oldest gin distillers in the country
When fire took hold...
World’s oldest angling club casts a new line in Manchester
Dozens of anglers will soon be a familiar sight on the Rochdale Canal through Manchester city centre, thanks to a new fishing agreement between...
Manchester team creates detailed guide to spotting dark matter.
It might well make up much of our universe and now the largest single high definition map of mysterious dark matter has been produced,...
Tambora-how an Indonesian Volcano 200 years ago would effect Manchester
It was two months before the final defeat of Napolean on the battlefield of Waterloo, but on the faraway Indonesian island of Sumbawa an event...