With the office Christmas bash facing the axe this year, one theatre group has an exciting alternative: a digital whodunnit,

Manchester City Council has announced that some large seasonal public celebrations including the Christmas Lights Switch-on will be cancelled owing

The Parking Lot Social have teamed up with intu Trafford Centre to put together the UK’s biggest drive-in winter festival,

Manchester City Council are encouraging families to give their Christmas trees the send-off they deserve by recycling

A Manchester children’s charity has launched a festive campaign to collect memories from people who have been helped by the charity in the past.

Churches across Greater Manchester are asking people to come together to bring a little light into the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children, including victims of child sexual exploitation, this Christmas.

For many Christmas is a time to have fun, share a few jokes and act a bit silly. However some people have taken this silliness further than most, even as far as governmental departments, by writing funny festive Freedom of Information requests.

If you fancy some alternative advent activities to see you through to Christmas day, then here are a few in Manchester to get you excited

Step in back in time… and into Christmas as the Victorian Markets return to the Lowry Outlet and MediaCityUK for their third annual visit

Figures released today reveal 396 children contacted the city’s ChildLine call centre, during the Christmas season last year

What signals the start of Christmas for you, the John Lewis or Coca Cola ads? MM took to the streets to find out