Life

Manchester are more sex savvy than the rest of the country, separating the myth from the muff when faced with a list of fanny falsities.

MM chatted to a Manchester Metropolitan University fashion graduate about the narrative, characters and Japanese influence behind her designs after she was named Young Designer of the Year 2015.

In September 2015, The Independent devoted their front page to three-year-old Aylan Kurdi – a Syrian refugee, whose dead body was washed ashore in Turkey after his boat capsized before it could reach the safety of Kos.

When most Mancunians think of ‘Blue Monday’, they think of a certain 1983 hit song by a certain band but many people believe that the term has another meaning.

It was announced yesterday that Alan Rickman died of cancer at his home in London surrounded by his family, aged 69.

In light of David Bowie’s death, a popular nightclub in Rusholme is putting on a themed charity fundraising night in tribute to the late music icon.

The family and friends of a 26-year-old Huddersfield man have started a fund raising campaign, to help pay for any treatment he may need while he recovers from a life-threatening car crash.

Even the mention of curling in this country can draw looks of confusion and a shrug as if to suggest that it is an undertaking very much meant for elsewhere.

Dress Your Pet Day, a calendar observance that gives animal lovers the incentive to dress their pets, from cats to piglets, is on the horizon.

A show consisting of music banned by the Nazis will be brought home by Manchester-born producer Peter Brathwaite later this month.

The fact that the new Star Wars movie has opened to almost universal mass hysteria and with British astronaut Tim Peake heading to the International Space Station, millions across the UK and beyond have become re-acquainted with the notion of going into the realms of science fiction.