Each day will be based on the ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’, which are, ‘Keep Learning, Connect, Give, Be Active and Take Notice’.

Manchester has been shortlisted for European Youth Capital, becoming the first UK city to make the list.

The festival, which is organised by founder Dr Jill Adam and award-winning music journalists John Robb and Simon A. Morrison, focuses upon the age-old relationship between music and the written word.

More than 50% of people spend more money when out shopping with others, a consumer-advice website has revealed.

David Cameron was the target of a political rant from the stars of Kneehigh theatre company’s musical Dead Dog In A Suitcase in the post-show talk at Manchester’s HOME yesterday.

Over the past few years, the number of independent bookshops in the UK has fallen to fewer than 1,000 nationwide – the lowest since records began.

Three inseparable skier school-girls from Manchester – dubbed the ‘Mogirls’ – lit up the Chill Factore as they competed in the European Indoor Moguls Championships last week.

‘Speed blues, new-wave, punk anarchy’ – that’s what is on the bill when The Strypes take to the stage at the Ritz in Manchester this Saturday.

Students from Manchester Metropolitan University yesterday came together to protest against the eviction of homeless people from The Ark shelter under Mancunian Way.

James Bay performs at the O2 Apollo in Manchester and aside from his soppy compositions and repetitive choruses, there aren’t many singer-songwriters I’ve seen at close quarters that have fully convinced me that they’re born rockstars.

Colin Davies says is continuing to lead a revolution on restrictive laws, which he claims are preventing terminally ill people from accessing treatment that could save them.