Entertainment

Rowdy Roddy Piper graced Manchester with his presence last night for his A Tour to Settle the Score at Deansgate’s Comedy Store.

No Devotion, made up of the former band members joined by ex-Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley, will perform at Sound Control following their live début last night in Cardiff.

Manchester’s largest dance music extravaganza is back in its traditional city centre location with a bigger line-up than ever – and the race is on to snap up tickets.

Alan Turing’s hotly-anticipated biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley will open the British Film Festival it has been revealed alongside the film’s first trailer.

Mollie, Una, Vanessa, Rochelle and Frankie will all be launching their greatest hits tour later this year, reliving some of the songs that catapulted them into stardom and onto dancefloors up and down the country

Based in Trafford Park, groups of eight survivors are tasked with navigating through various terminal points spread across the industrial estate

Working towards Arts Award Explore, the children will be encouraged by a partnership involving Tameside Cultural Services, the BBC, a forum of the borough’s music teachers and Stone Soup, a Tameside Creative Industries organisation

Film Hub North West has secured a massive £51,100 grant from the British Film Institute (BFI) to take part in Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder season this autumn.

Warwick Davis played wok Wicket in Return Of The Jedi and Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies.

The gender swapping pioneer has gone largely unrecognised in modern pop culture, but a new play, part of Manchester Fringe, looks to explore the conflicted diva along with three other significant LGBT figures

The launch event will take place at Thwaites Festival Pavilion in Albert Square tonight for a sultry evening of smooth jazz.