Life

From adult-only ball pools to musings on food, Manchester’s Science Festival is sure to be a hit with locals, with 170 events set to be held between October 22 and November 1.

Halloween is just around the corner, and whilst some will be content to close the curtains and ignore the trick-or-treaters, many around Manchester will be looking to get into the spirit.

“It’s devastating. I thought my son was going to bleed to death, and it just doesn’t stop. At one point the bleeding was even longer than eight hours.”

What if I told you I know a place where all your troubles will turn to glitter? It’s Disney On Ice and, as the fellow adult who came along to the show at Manchester Arena with me pointed out, it is the campest thing you will ever see in your life.

Steven Taylor, who toured with Ginsberg for almost twenty years until his death in 1997, performed and spoke at Still Howling, an event which took place at The Wonder Inn.

The annual Gothic Manchester Festival will return for another weird and wonderful outing this October.

Viv Anderson, the first black footballer to represent England on an international stage, shares his hope for greater black representation.

The recent trial of a woman, who used a male persona online to trick her female friend into having sex with her using a fake penis, raised many questions.

Today is World Mental Health Day and, with one in four adults suffering from some form of mental illness, now is the time to start talking about it.

From cashmere jumper mittens to vodka bottle lamps and scrabble clocks, upcycling has gone mainstream in Manchester.

Are the reasons behind male suicide ‘many and varied’ or does the cause of such tragedies lie primarily in the fact that men are ‘no longer the provider’ for their families?