A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's ...

It seems in keeping with the Catholic iconography that Michaela Yearwood-Dan has cited as one of the organising principles of ...

On a gloomy Sunday in Sale, south Manchester, Hannah Baxendale opens her front door in a red gingham top and polka dot socks.

The concept is a half or whole rotisserie chicken served with flavoured butters and some sides and a glass or two of Crémant, ...

Blink and there’s another new restaurant. Manchester’s freshly acquired status as the fastest growing economy in Britain is mirrored in the ever-growing number of new eateries across the city (matched ...

Curtain Up at Lowry in Salford: our chief arts correspondent visits a new exhibition about the communal experience of being in an audience.

Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories that create social fabric and identity. And they can be found, woven delicately, into the ...

At the beginning of 2026, a crowd gathered at Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre to bring in the New Year. Led by Gluteus Maximus, a fully armoured workout coach, Cestrians clad in hats, scarves and gloves ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...