The lights drew down on tightly packed, cosy concert hall; all for but one solitary trickle which caught by the glinting steel bar stool which stood in isolation.

Ricky Hatton has continued his reputation as a joker by purchasing a Manchester City cake for his United supporting brother on his birthday.

Manchester has been voted in the top 50 student cities in the world – and top three in the UK, according to the QS Best Student Cities poll.

A top five of alternative Christmas holiday destinations

Community artists reach out to Manchester’s homeless with Matchbox City art project to explore notions of home and place within a city and raise awareness

A new £620,000 state-of-the-art football pitch it is hoped will help earn Manchester the prestigious honour of being named ‘City of Football’.

A Salford author is taking a visual journey through the city’s history in his latest book – and shedding light on the long-standing competition with neighbour Manchester.

Manchester has been named among the top ten ‘most disappointing’ places to visit in Britain in a new poll among UK holidaymakers.

The UK’s cemeteries are expected to be ‘full’ within 25 years – so Manchester Metropolitan University have proposed ‘burial cities’.

Manchester has become one of the epicentres of English football in recent years, perhaps fitting for a city that has been influential since the beautiful game first took the world by storm

Ahead of the Manchester derby this evening and with the World Cup fast approaching, MM takes a look at five Brazilian flops to play for either United or City