Legendary ex-Mark Addy chef Robert Owen Brown is to take up a guest residency this weekend at the last of the Guerrilla Eats street food events.

We’ve barely clipped our wristbands and found our way to the VIP stands before we are greeted into Lancashire County Cricket Club by Dave Grohl titillating a sea of 50,000 adoring faces.

Looking for a challenge, Manchester? How about four of them? A new city-wide charity event is looking for teams to sign up and take on the challenge to raise £400,000 for four charities through four challenges.

Emma Timmis and Emily Pitts already four days into a trek with a difference – skating the 120 miles from Overdinkel on the eastern border with Germany to Ijmuiden on the west coast of the country.

The Sexhibition Expo will be hitting the streets of Manchester to showcase some of the world’s well known sex industry names and businesses this summer.

The ‘Find a Flag’ competition takes place in the city tomorrow, from 9am-9pm, and hopefuls must upload a ‘flag selfie’, to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, using #EmiratesFlag after former England and Sale Sharks player Mark Cueto has hidden it.

Hozier filled Manchester’s Albert Hall with his soulful melodies and smooth melancholy performance on Bank Holiday Monday.

Having the ability to encapsulate loss, love and heartbreak in an effortlessly heart-rending set only magnifies JP Cooper’s musical ability to take you on a journey of untapped sentiment.

‘Keep On Keeping On’ will be an ‘interview style’ documentary, portraying five puppet characters who are all affected by the disease in their own way.

The event, at the Soup Kitchen on June 5, sees artists compete to make the best painting in 30 minutes, and is a return to the competition after a year’s break.

The manner of former WBO Light-Welterweight Champion Chris Algieri’s only defeat, against Manny Pacquiao, indicates that Amir Khan should very much be classed as favourite come May 29.