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It’s a sunny Friday afternoon and I’m sat in the foyer of the Royal Exchange with Jack Lord on a rare day off.

A Salford brewery has created a limited-edition beer in collaboration with Salford Pride to help raise money for the LGBT+ community.

It’s frustration with the male-dominated DJ scene that inspired Tracy Duah, Anna Cooper, Sophie Hayter, and Rosa Méthol to form All Hands on Deck (AHoD): the perfectly named DJ collective creating an inclusive platform in Manchester for women and non-binary people to flourish on the turntables.

From student spinning to the Track Cycling World Championships, Manchester is quite simply where it all started for Alice Sharpe.

Haytham Alhamwi’s head was turned towards bettering his nation’s broken politics as a university student. Through peaceful protests and a brutal prison stretch, he now runs one of the country’s most vital Syrian support groups from Longsight, Manchester. This is his remarkable story.

Three times a week, different groups of Mancunian men, women and children alike make the journey to Manchester Universities’ Catholic Chaplaincy – home to Manchester Central Food Bank, a Trussell Trust site founded by a group of university students in 2013.

In the June 2016 referendum, the city of Manchester had the fifth highest vote to Remain in the EU with 60% – here MM take a look at what the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester have done in preparation for the March 29 European exit.

It’s been two decades since Sudanese political activist Yagoub Matar, 49, first became a refugee when escaping the clutches of the one-party, oppressive state of Sudan.

Since the Bank of England signalled its intention to feature a scientist on the new note, mathematician Alan Turing is being floated as a potential candidate.

When singer-songwriter Novo Amor, real name Ali Lacey, plays at Gorilla in Manchester on October 16, it will kick-off a career-high 29-date tour.

No, Gorilla is not a primate, it is one of Manchester’s edgiest concert venues – and on Thursday night Catherine McGrath owned the place.