Similar to the social media craze planking, phooning involved the phooner remaining motionless in a pose that resembles a runner, motionless mid-stride, usually with a sheepish grin on their face.

The Manchester Picnic returns to let the city’s food fanatics enjoy an urban bite to eat.
The summer feast is back serving up a picnic to put the best of teddy bears to shame from 11am-6pm on August 29-31

Stop the War Coalition are calling for anyone opposed to the conflict to join in the rally on Sunday August 3 which begins on Oxford Road at midday and finishes at Piccadilly Gardens.

The protest is a response to the failed ceasefire between Israel and Palestine which has resulted in more bombing of the region and civilian deaths.

Mothers Against Violence was set up in 1996 by Pasty Mckie after her ‘caring and vibrant’ son Dorrie was shot and killed in Hulme

Angry trade union members gathered together for today’s strike in Piccadilly Gardens, claiming that ‘money is there, just in the wrong places’.

The national day of industrial action follows months of disputes between the public sector and the government over working conditions and pay.

Beginning in 2011, the tensions centre on the ever-increasing proportion of fire-fighters’ pay that goes towards their pensions

The fracas happened around 3pm on Saturday, May 31, when around 15 men squared up to each other in Piccadilly Gardens

Around 230 girls were abducted at dawn from their boarding school in Chibok in the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigeria, three weeks ago – with eight more reportedly snatched on Sunday.

Infamous Manchester gangster Domenyk Noonan has scaled the Big Wheel at Piccadilly Gardens in protest against plans to recall him to prison.