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‘Climate change makes fires more frequent and severe. The cause is people lighting them’
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Death of a teacher: Did an inquest get to the heart of a school tragedy?
Katie Allen-Gyves died three months after joining an academy in Gorton. Colleagues say the public hasn’t heard the full story
The bizarre story behind the ‘Salford University rape cover up’ posters
For months an anonymous figure has been levelling accusations at the university. We finally spoke to them
Oldham Coliseum is in trouble, again
The money's disappearing, the plays are bad, and staff aren't talking. How did it all go wrong?
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Jack Dulhanty
Jack is a journalist from Salford who joined The Mill in 2021. His work has spanned development, crime, homelessness, politics and spicy chicken burgers. His investigation into mayoral advisor Sacha Lord was nominated for the 2025 Paul Foot award.
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Ophira is the editor of The Mill. She’s originally from Glasgow – shamefully the only member of the team not from Greater Manchester – but she moved here to study back in 2019, and hey, that’s how Bev Craig got here too.
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Lucy is an investigative reporter who cut her teeth in student journalism. She was previously an editor at The Tab, managing local teams across the UK.
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A sniper team and the ‘inside man’: The real story of the IRA bomb
Special Investigation: After 30 years, we can reveal who ordered and carried out the 1996 attack on Manchester - and why charges were never brought
The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery
Special Investigation: we can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice
Falling glass, a £23m bill and a Cypriot billionaire: The never-ending nightmare at Beetham Tower
A bitter dispute over a cladding defect has been going on for over a decade
Is Chris Kenna Manchester’s first AI billionaire in the making — or a serial fantasist?
He’s been feted by the press as a tech pioneer. But we can’t find his data centres
‘Wilmslow Road feels like a place that should be in literature’
We spoke to novelist Sufiyaan Salam about boss men, souped-up cars, and his debut novel
Manchester’s food scene isn’t fun anymore
Authenticity is being choked out of one of the city’s most treasured industries. How did we get here?
Who is Soho House Manchester for?
‘That’s why Sainsbury’s is there, to keep the riffraff out of Waitrose’
Is everything okay at HOME?
It’s been 18 months since a cancelled Gaza event threw the organisation into chaos — and all is still not well
‘People could not be angrier’: A journey to the heart of Gorton and Denton
Getting to grips with one of the country's strangest constituencies
Breaking Bread: the TikToker that has the council on toast
She started off as a content creator, now they call her Manchester’s greatest journalist
Sleeping on the snowy streets of Manchester
Two homeless men have died in Manchester so far this winter. Can further deaths be prevented?
