Radio stations were demolished, instruments burned and musicians driven into exile through threat of torture or even death as Islamists Ansar Dine imposed their terrible will. But the Malians refused to yield.

A Stockport councillor has criticised the government’s response to floods in the borough last month and urged flood victims to take advantage of financial support from the council.

When, in 1983, the final specks of vision receded from John Hull’s eyes, he found his dreams haunted by recurring nightmares where, trapped in a coal truck, he plunged deep into the depths of a mine shaft, staring up as the light above him shrunk to nothing.

The day is upon us, pollsters have desperately thrown numbers into spreadsheets for the last time and the voting boxes have been dusted off for their moment of glory and, still, the Brexit debate is as fearsome as ever.

With polls set to open tomorrow morning at 7am through until 10pm you might be searching for that last-minute insight into the EU referendum.

A campaign group has claimed that Britain has ‘far greater influence’ over LGBT agendas across Europe while in the EU, as they set their case out against a Brexit in the upcoming referendum.

The Mayor of Oldham has said that more must be done to increase voter turnout following the local elections, despite criticism of the postal vote from UKIP.

With this year’s Record Store Day sweeping into record shops across the country today, MM spoke to Patrick Ryder, manager at Piccadilly Records.

The women of Women’s Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) are united by a common past.

Self-styled as ‘an idealist mixed with a goofball’ and ‘an intellectual with no common sense’, Dane Baptiste is a comic who has no intention of withholding his opinion.

A new student-run record label is aiming to help more young people take their first steps in the industry.