Life

In a former Victorian fish and poultry market on a quiet Northern Quarter backstreet, a Man Met graduate is preparing to launch her debut exhibition.

If you stumbled across money in the street, would you take it? That’s exactly the dilemma the people of Manchester were faced with when journalists from The Lad Bible set up an experiment in Piccadilly Gardens and filmed the responses.

Manchester’s Roma community are soon to be given a new voice through a project aiming to dispel negative perceptions and stop them ‘being dependent on others’.

Finding your next partner over that watercooler conversation might not be such a bad thing, if new research is correct in showing that office romances can boost employee productivity.

The venue recently celebrated being named the best comedy club in the North by Chortle comedy magazine, and their ‘Beat the Frog’ amateur nights are perhaps their most renowned feature.

A Salford photography and make-up studio who aim to provide a confidence boost for women and make visitors feel ‘ten foot tall’ have been nominated at this year’s National Vintage Awards.

Peter James-Robinson, from Radcliffe, heard his brother utter those fateful words as he led in a coma.

This is a sad day for Britain. We weren’t expecting – or even asking for – a revolution, but a lot of people I know were looking for some kind of change to a system with which millions feel extreme disaffection.

We’ll be keeping you bang up to date all night with the latest results and reaction from across Greater Manchester and beyond.

A new tumblr has got the whole world seeing red, re-imaging all your favourite celebrities with ginger hair, eyebrows and even freckles so here at MM we decided to give some of Manchester’s parliamentary candidates our own (incredibly amateur) makeover.

Flying under the radar in MM’s own backyard are a number of remarkable stories, one of which revolves around a man called Jeff Smith.