No wellies needed! Beacons Festival swaps Yorkshire for string of Manchester dates
Organisers are renaming the festival Beacons Metro and swapping the rustic Yorkshire Dales for gritty Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
Tameside gang jailed after unleashing 18 months of terror on gun crime witness
A notorious Tameside gang – who unleashed 18 months of ‘stress, threats and intimidation’ on a gun crime witness – have finally been convicted.
Wanted: Mosque willing to host comedy show of Phoenix Nights star Smug Roberts
Comedy veteran and Phoenix Nights actor Smug Roberts is appealing to mosques and churches to open their doors and host him as part of his Red Nose Day ’20-20’ tour next weekend.
Lights, culture, action! Manchester’s Chinese New Year celebrations – IN PICS
Revellers are treated to a stunning display of light and fire as animation and art intertwined to kick off the Chinese New Year celebrations at Manchester’s St. Ann’s Square.
Domestic abuse occurs every EIGHT minutes in Greater Manchester, GMP stats show
Domestic violence occurs every eight and a half minutes in Greater Manchester, according to new figures released by Greater Manchester Police.
Show Selfridges your ‘anger’: Mass protest planned over ‘anti-homeless’ spike row
Manchester Metropolitan University professor Cathy Urquhart – who launched an online petition against the spikes last weekend – revealed to MM that there could be up to two protests across the weekend and early next week.
Hunting ban, 10 years on: Four in five Brits say ‘barbaric pastime’ should remain illegal
As we pass the decade mark since the ban on hunting came into effect in Britain, a study has revealed the public still overwhelmingly support the legislation.
You mean city? Tyson Fury claims Manchester’s a ‘sh*t town anyway’
European and WBO International heavyweight champion Fury, from Wythenshawe, faces German Christian Hammer on February 28 at the O2 Arena in London.
First direct flight between Iraq and Manchester (but don’t forget your 90-min security check in Vienna)
Manchester is soon to become the first airport outside London to offer direct flights to Iraq, with one airline ready to launch two routes to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in the north of the country.
Sweet or volty? Popcorn machine electrocutes two Didsbury Cineworld staff
Two staff members of the Parrs Wood Cineworld received electric shocks while using the faulty popcorn machine in the same day – costing the cinema £12,193.29.
Grab a spoon: City’s first cereal café Black Milk will be as ‘Madchester as possible’
Fancy yourself as something of a cereal connoisseur? Well weetabit longer, and you’ll be able to snap, crackle and pop in to Black Milk Cereal, the first ever cereal café to open in Manchester.