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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?

As the Conservatives arrived in Manchester for their annual conference, protesters responded by warning that they would ‘lay siege’ to the event, so Tories knew they ‘were not welcome in the city’.

The creations from fashion legend and innovator from the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli will be exhibited at Manchester Costume gallery in Platts Fields for a year, opening on October 8 2015.

After ten years in and out of prison for drug-related crimes, Haydn Smith was signposted to Mustard Tree, a charity helping the homeless.

MM looks at the best fringe events taking place this year’s conference, to give activists a peak beyond the security fence and help delegates to decide where to go.

A Hazel Grove mother-of-two has gone from washing pots to ‘baking’ an empire.