Life

A group of powerlifters from Greater Manchester are undertaking a Titanic challenge this weekend.

A devoted Spice Girls fan who has collected over 5000 items of memorabilia over the years is bringing an exhibition of her goods to Warrington to mark the 20th anniversary of the band’s first single.

A Salford theatre group will blur the line between fantasy and reality by staging a real anti-austerity march during an upcoming play.

Butterfly in Blood, based on the memoirs of Fania Fénelon, tells the story of a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp in WW2 and a member of its orchestra.

The women of Women’s Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) are united by a common past.

Music and written art has long been at the centre of Manchester’s illustrious heritage, producing many legendary figures.

When we think of areas of Greater Manchester associated with modern music, some wouldn’t feature highly on the list.

From accountancy to Zumba, gardening to piano lessons, a new Manchester-based organisation is encouraging people to be ‘wonderful’ by donating their time to charity.

Early morning’s seldom seen magic will be on show for all wide awake eyes in Manchester this weekend, with an exhibition that’s a chronicle for the future.

A seamstress, designer and shop owner is giving a ‘feeling of empowerment’ back to Mancunians by working with charities and taking her trade to various festivals this summer.

A campaign launched to fund a new book that teaches children about Islam and The 99 Names of Allah has reached its target, but the author has no intention of stopping now.