The Printworks celebrate 15 years and 118m visitors with big birthday weekend bash
The Printworks turns 15 this weekend, and to celebrate, the entertainment venue is hosting a raucous birthday bash filled with live music.
Get this hound homeward bound! Highway heroes save border collie from motorway
A sheep dog found wandering along the motorway has been saved by traffic officers and taken to a Leigh animal rescue centre – but now he needs to find his way home.
‘No winners today’: Jealous husband jailed for strangling school teacher wife to death
A man who consistently gave a ‘pack of lies’ to everyone has been jailed after he murdered a woman and left her wrapped in a duvet for emergency services to collect.
Hallé Choir’s new director ‘hugely excited’ to be ‘at very heart’ of city’s music scene
Manchester’s internationally renowned Hallé Choir have welcomed a new choral director to lead the historic ensemble.
‘We can get inside babies minds’: Baby-talk app on trial at Manchester Museum
Scientists are on the cusp of discovering what babies are thinking thanks to ground-breaking new technology being trialled at the Manchester Museum this weekend.
Get texting! Manchester war veterans battling mental illness need your support
People across Greater Manchester are being urged to text in feedback on how to improve mental health services for the region’s military veterans.
‘Everyone’s business’: GMP fight to end view of domestic abuse as ‘private matter’
Seven women every month are killed by a current or former partner and every year 100,000 men and women are at high and imminent risk of being murdered or seriously injured as a result of domestic abuse.
Expect ‘daily intrusion’ of your privacy under Theresa May’s new surveillance law – Manchester rights group
People should be fearful of ‘daily intrusions’ by police to their internet records and even personal messages without a warrant, warns a Manchester digital rights organisation.
Manchester’s £7m mental health cuts will cause more deaths, warns patient group
Cuts to Manchester’s mental health services will ’cause more deaths’, warned a local patient support group as they lobbied outside the Town Hall yesterday.
Choosing ‘Booker of the North’ winner like ‘choosing Pope without the smoke’
Books exploring magic, bereavement and landscape are among the fiction and nonfiction shortlisted for a £10,000 writing prize dubbed the ‘Booker of the North’.
‘Cameron flaunts Manchester as trophy city’: Protests as China’s President Xi Jinping arrives at Town Hall
Thousands of people gathered outside Manchester Town Hall to show their support for President Xi Jinping as he joined David Cameron, George Osborne, and other key figures from across Manchester for lunch today.