After the credits rolled: What happened to the cast of 2023?
Returning to some of the people we met this year
The Mill
Black mould, freezing homes and a child in hospital: Meet the housing association that stole Christmas
Mill Investigation: Riverside Housing says it provides good quality, safe housing for thousands of people. That’s not what we found when we visited its tenants.
‘I love you, I want to come home’
The return of missing child Alex Batty. Plus: Chanel brings £8 million into Manchester
Secret hoards: The extraordinary discoveries of Manchester’s ‘misers’
Why did some of Manchester’s wealthiest residents live like they had nothing?
Going underground: The Picc-Vicc Line and the future we never got
What went wrong with Manchester’s underground metro system?
The Royal Exchange has pulled off the impossible and crafted a feel-good ‘Brief Encounter’. But does it miss the point?
The tragic love story: now a sunny musical
After over a year in limbo, is the Clean Air Zone coming back?
Plus: Buy a cottage dating back to 1808 in rural Bury
Surviving Manchester’s frozen streets
The temperature has dropped below zero. Everyone else is hurrying home — you have to make it through the night. How?
Why should posh kids have all the fun? On making music a universal, not a luxury
‘I can’t see a world where we deprive such a large proportion of the population [of music]’
The government says it is ‘accelerating’ rail upgrades in the North. But is it?
Plus: A homeless man found dead in the Gay Village
Everyone hates the Arndale, but it’s a microcosm of Manchester
‘We’ll be doing over a million footfall a week’
What’s it like inside THG, one of Manchester’s biggest - and weirdest - companies?
‘There was a DJ about three metres away from my ear playing house music and loads of 21-year-olds running around drinking prosecco’
Has Elon Musk chosen Greater Manchester for his new gigafactory?
Plus: Joshi chats to Mike Emmerich about whether academics are doing the city down - and the Portico announces some exciting news
Slems is known as the weirdest university halls in Manchester. That’s exactly how the students like it
‘A bunch of undergraduates who wear gowns and have chapel — it’s not exactly the flavour of the month is it?’