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The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories will take place at Texture on Lever Street in the city’s Northern Quarter on 23 August.

With series like Danger Mouse, and Chorlton and the Wheelies, and with their animated film of Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall made a pioneering and lasting contribution to the animation industry in Manchester and in Britain as a whole.

Engels lived right here in Manchester for several decades, the city where his radical philosophies were truly born.

Jerome Caminada, the Manchester-born detective who apparently inspired Sherlock Holmes, is set to have a city centre pub named after him.

They may have come up just short at SW19 but Manchester did its best to back the Wimbledon challenge of British No.1s Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the weekend after taking part in a nationwide tennis programme.

Paralympic cycling medallist Crystal Lane was busy this week trying to inspire the next generation of British cyclists.

VR is a growing industry, with audiences ranging from children to older adults and the headsets are forecasted by 2021 to be worth $18.8 Billion.

The exhibition was commissioned and produced as part of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest of a series of collaborations with the gallery, following Ed Atkins’ Performance Capture in 2015.

Gordon Reid has a lot to shout about. In 2016 the world number three wheelchair tennis player accumulated a host of honours in a single year that most dream of achieving in their whole career.

Manchester’s ex-offenders are being offered a much-needed helping hand when it comes to re-adjusting to their freedom.

Manchester is still buzzing following the second ever edition of the country’s largest game jam.