Michelin star chef Paul Rankin served up a tasty treat of his new sausage range in Manchester ahead of a national competition to find the UK’s best ‘mini-chef’.

Lutalo Muhammad claimed silver at last night’s final of the World Taekwondo Grand Prix at the Manchester Regional Arena after losing to Tunisia’s Oussama Ouesleti 16-6.

“It’s devastating. I thought my son was going to bleed to death, and it just doesn’t stop. At one point the bleeding was even longer than eight hours.”

After signing a major record deal with Virgin EMI, the self-confessed working class Stockport five-piece are now in the process of recording their debut album.

Inherently bold in nature, a ballet adaptation of Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four is extremely courageous and venturesome to say the least but translated into a huge success for the Northern Ballet.

If all of Spector’s songs are, essentially, cries of existential angst from frontman Fred MacPherson, they are more fun than most.

Steven Taylor, who toured with Ginsberg for almost twenty years until his death in 1997, performed and spoke at Still Howling, an event which took place at The Wonder Inn.

Sale Sharks went from heroes to zeroes on Saturday, following up their Kings of the North tournament victory with a crushing defeat away to Saracens.

Ahead of British singer songwriter Lucy Rose’s show at Manchester Academy on Monday, the 26-year-old from Warwickshire chatted to MM about her new album, refugees and Jeremy Corbyn.

Manchester’s Etihad Stadium has missed out on regaining rugby league’s big Magic Weekend event for 2016.

Wigan will host Colchester on Saturday for the first competitive meeting between the two sides for 13 years.