Entertainment

Writers including Margaret Atwood and Anthony Horowitz are sharing pictures of themselves aged ten to celebrate Manchester Literature Festival’s tenth anniversary.

Amongst the closure of gig venues, the cancellation of events, and the near demise of the city’s underground music scene, Manchester Punk Festival is bucking the trend and thriving – returning in 2016 for its second year running.

We’re more than halfway into Festival Number 6 in the beautiful North Welsh tourist village of Portmeirion. With the end drawing close, here’s a recap of our favourite acts from day two.

Harold Pinter’s first play is to be reworked to include a woman with Alzheimer’s as the lead character in support of World Alzheimer’s Month, with the production being brought to Manchester’s Joshua Brooks Theatre.

So, the first day of Festival Number 6 in the beautiful North Welsh village of Portmeirion is over. Here are our favourites – new and undiscovered – from yesterday’s event.

Coronation Street chiefs have whetted fans’ appetites for this month’s live episode with a thrilling trailer depicting bad boy Callum Logan in pursuit of the Platt family.

Get ready for a real feel-good show at the Manchester Academy on October 2 as Canadian internet sensation Walk Off The Earth play their first show in the city.

Local comedy writers and performers are open to register for the Greater Manchester Fringe Comedy Festival, as the event returns for the third successive year.

Harriet Dyer, who originally hails from Cornwall, has been running the Barking Tales comedy night at Joshua Brooks since the start of the year with a very simple – yet affective – goal.

Greater Manchester’s biggest free celebration of food and music – the Rochdale Feel Good festival – returns this summer for its eighth instalment with its best line-up to date.

Top street artists behind some of Manchester’s most recognised graffiti will compete in public for the first time ever at this year’s underground art battle event, which is set to really ‘raise the bar’.