“We always got told we’d struggle here, but no. As soon as we walk through the door, football is out the window and we’re f***ing cousins,” Courteeners frontman Liam Fray affirmed to the room.

Jane Dennison unpacks her bag out onto a table in the Sale Waterside Plaza. Out come the cones for the evening’s warm-up, each with ‘MileShyClub’ boldly written on in thick felt-tip. She’s there early, as she is every week, to set up for her cohort of runners that will be filtering in at any moment.

Still Corners are set to perform an intimate gig in Manchester.

Once a treat purely for children, the advent calendar is now a staple in every home – with brands offering calendars stacked with everything from booze to cosmetics.

Sun, sea and sangria is brought to Mancunians this week – and forecasts say this will last until the end of the week….

“You start to forget yourself. It was incredible to be reminded of who I am again.”

The six-part series focuses on one Manchester family’s complex lives over a turbulent 15-year period.

Stephenson’s Rocket has come home to Manchester after being away from the city for 180 years.

UK Battle Rap is in a peculiar place right now within its history.

With sites already in Harrogate and Edinburgh, Manchester is now the third in the country and it’s been designed especially with the country’s coolest city in mind.

Every day people are seen sleeping in doorways, at entrances to shopping complexes and begging for money from passers-by. Living this way is clearly distressing and not a pleasant way of life.