The number of arrests for ‘aggressive and intimidating’ begging in Greater Manchester doubled between 2020 and 2021. Figures obtained through

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has given an update on the rough sleeping and homelessness situation in the region.

An award-winning play remembering the 1981 Moss Side riots returns to Manchester at the end of this month.

You don’t have to be a statistician to know homelessness is rising in Manchester.

As the son of Manchester legend and Hacienda founder Tony Wilson, music has always been close to Oli Wilson’s heart – now his passion for rave culture will turn a disused Ancoats warehouse into a daytime eatery and night-time party zone.

Manchester is a proud city. But as much as many of us are loathed to admit it, it isn’t perfect.

Half-price food and a helping hand to the homeless are available at the same time thanks to an app recently launched in Manchester.

After ten years in and out of prison for drug-related crimes, Haydn Smith was signposted to Mustard Tree, a charity helping the homeless.

David Gale has worked as a senior chef at the Hilton Hotel, The Lawn Club in Spinningfields and Mughli in Northern Quarter, and will open his new restaurant Louie next year… but this lunchtime, he’s dishing up a meal in slightly different circumstances – on the first floor of a warehouse on Oldham Road.

Trio of charities form Employment Task Group and extend a helping hand to get Manchester’s homeless off the streets and into jobs with employment initiative