Life

A fashion design student from Leigh is sketching, cutting, and stitching her way to the top of Manchester’s fashion scene.

Cancer, or the C word as some would rather call it, is something of a taboo.

From daring designers to brazen brewers, they carried out interviews are some of Manchester’s most creative folk to find out what makes the city such a hotbed of activity.

James McCarthy, 33, has set up a community company – an organisation just short of being a charity – with the aim of raising vital funds to carry out research into brain cancer and the effectiveness of proton therapy.

The Cities of Hope street art gallery has given social justice organisations in Manchester a voice, both in the UK and across the world, says the event’s co-founder.

A Levenshulme volunteer has put a face to the divisive and difficult immigration process many face coming to the UK – by writing a new book.

A 13-year-old girl living in Ashton is raising money to create her own short film adaptation of Hansel and Gretel.

In a world of people grotesquely craving celebrity status, there are others who steer refreshingly well away from it.

Imagine meeting Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine Howard and Marie-Antoinette together in the afterlife. Unlikely?

When, in 1983, the final specks of vision receded from John Hull’s eyes, he found his dreams haunted by recurring nightmares where, trapped in a coal truck, he plunged deep into the depths of a mine shaft, staring up as the light above him shrunk to nothing.

In the aftermath of the Brexit body blow, many of us have been left reeling at the prospect of costly foreign travel.