Manchester’s contender for Masterchef The Professionals chats punk parsnips, subversive cooking and mandolins
Masterchef: The Professionals
Couch potato capital: Manchester is laziest city in UK with more inactive adults than anywhere else
Survey found that 40% of adults ‘inactive’
Honouring her mum: Tot attends Salford service for mother who died of cancer only weeks after giving birth
‘Light up a Life’ will take place at St Ann’s hospice
Piccadilly Pulse: How has the life and death of Nelson Mandela affected you?
The former South African President died last night
Small Business Saturday: Manchester takes on Black Friday and Cyber Monday with trade-boosting initiative
Businesses aim to capitalise on busiest retail day of year
Manchester United light up Old Trafford… with new advertising boards
New larger and brighter hoardings in place at Theatre of Dreams
Death of baby girl who choked on shepherd’s pie at Manchester nursery ruled misadventure NOT accident
Millie Thompson died at Ramillies Hall Private Nursery
‘Miraculous’ escape for Manchester van driver as 70-FOOT TREE crashes through windscreen on way to work
Tree came down on Birchfields Road, Longsight, at 10am
Salford amputee plunges into pool for second time to raise money for disabled cycling charity
Swim for Wheels for All charity
There’s a storm brewing: Manchester braced as Met Office issues severe weather warning
Public transport delays expected
Confused: Manchester United’s David Moyes at a loss to explain Everton’s first win at Old Trafford in 21 years
Everton score 85th-minute winner, fans stream out the gates