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MM took to the streets of Manchester to find out whether Mancunians were going to vote in the May elections.

People in Manchester city centre are not even expected to reach the traditional retirement ages of 60 and 65 before moving into a phase where their health is neither very good nor good.

As the tension and the media coverage builds in the final leg of the race to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, MM have got in touch with a local politics expert to get his views of how the atmosphere surrounding the General Election has changed in Manchester over the last 32 years.

The A Clockwork Orange author was born in Manchester in 1917, the son of a pianist and a pub landlady, and has often expressed great pride his Mancunian roots. He even claimed to have introduced the word ‘Mancuniense’ to the Italian language.

Heaven-17’s Martyn Ware is to join a host of artists and musicians including Jon McClure of Reverend and the Makers for an evening to support creative communities in areas of conflict and war.

On April 17-18 a non-stop hacking event comes to the Old Granada Studios for this year’s mammoth edition of ‘The Great Uni Hackathon’.

A significant number of Manchester women have revealed they are torn on whether they will share cosmetics following the news a mum was left paralysed after using her friend’s makeup kit.

With General Election day rolling steadily closer, it’s looking increasingly as though Scotland – and the Scottish National Party in particular – could have a decisive influence on its outcome.

Manchester has has produced some world renowned authors, who leave behind them a great literary legacy with classics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Secret Garden and Confessions of an Opium Eater

Archaeologists from the University of Manchester are continuing to defy Islamic State militant efforts to ‘culturally cleanse’ Iraq by making new discoveries near the ancient city of Ur.

Alan Dyson, who attended a state grammar school, believes that children who come from privileged backgrounds shouldn’t be able to buy advantages when it comes to education.