Life

Cultural and political icon Will Self will be giving an insightful talk about his memoir, Will, at The Lowry this November.

You may have already heard the news that our collective spiritual home, Manchester’s Old Trafford, looks set to receive a serious technological upgrade.

Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton highlights his upbringing as the key factor that drove him to success both inside and outside the ring.

There aren’t many places where Manchester’s brutal industrial heritage brushes up against its modern infrastructure.

Everybody’s talking about Layton Williams, but last week it was my chance to chat to the versatile actor and bonafide West End star.​

Two years ago, Catalonia’s bid for independence plunged Spain into a huge political crisis when the autonomous Catalan government held an independence referendum.

Having bought and read Olivia Gatwood’s Life of the Party in advance of reviewing her live show and having seen poems in the contents titled Ghost story for masturbating at sleepovers, The boy says he loves Ted Bundy but doesn’t laugh about it and Blowjob elegy, I knew I was in for an evening of powerful poetry.

It’s easy to point out a problem however it takes hard work and determination to help create a solution.

Recalling the day that changed his world, he said: “Two years ago on my last day in Manchester I was an unfortunate victim of a machete attack and was slashed six times.

Archer Hazel Chaisty admits she is starving hungry for her chance to shoot on the sport’s biggest stage after missing out in 2016.

Last October Freya Slack, who studies Interactive Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, launched the initiative Don’t Cramp My Style as part of a university project. It soon blew up into something much more important: period poverty campaigning.