Manchester’s a wonderful place to be during the summer months.

Ask a random person to describe burlesque dancing, and after a short giggle, they’d probably come up with a mangled picture of musical theatre and stripping.

The Sexhibition Expo will be hitting the streets of Manchester to showcase some of the world’s well known sex industry names and businesses this summer.

The 26-year-old was looking forward to an article about her singing in a tribute to her three-year-old daughter Summer, who tragically died of bronchial pneumonia in February.

Burlesque dancers have claimed Facebook is suffering from stage fright by banning saucy adverts – and have hit back with an e-petition that racked up more than 1,000 signatures in a day.

Meet Tom Harlow, one of the country’s premier UK boylesque artistes. The lesser-known style of boylesque is the male version of burlesque which include male striptease, comedy, singing, dancing and even clowning and miming on the stage.

Manchester burlesque dancer Shireen Ashton, better known as Cherie Bebe caught up with MM ahead of her latest show Cherie Bebe’s Burlesque Revue at Matt and Phred’s on Sunday.

Kiki DeVille sang Paloma Faith hit Stone Cold Sober

Kiki performed on the hit BBC One show on Saturday