An early Christmas gift: levelling up funding rolls in
Plus: A great festive concert and Man City’s owner is buying the Telegraph
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Where is Manchester supposed to put its students?
Whole neighbourhoods in the south of the city have become university dormitories.
Take it back! How community action can save your local pool
Ashton is losing its pool. Withington Baths survived and is thriving. What does it take to keep these treasured local amenities afloat?
Has a ‘zombie newspaper’ just dropped through your letterbox?
The New Statesman exposes a worrying trend. Plus: We’re hiring!
What does war in the Middle East do to a city like Manchester?
‘People in positions of responsibility are doing the right thing. But the tensions are out there in the neighbourhoods’
Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes
‘It’s the internet and famously you can’t trust everybody all the time’
What does the city owe to Miles Platting?
Plus: Should some of the income tax raised in Greater Manchester be kept here?
Boohoo’s Broken Promises: a journalist goes inside Manchester’s fast fashion giant
Plus: Gary Neville’s new development will be home to the city’s most expensive flat
The crisis at the Old Courts deepens
‘If the organisation can continue to trade we will aim to make payments as soon as possible’
Is this the end of the old Irish Manchester?
Plus: our November theatre diary, including our thoughts on the Royal Exchange’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Why does homelessness keep rising in Greater Manchester?
Plus: Manchester City Council want your help becoming more cultured, and the North’s least favourite train operator tries its best to get worse
They wanted to revive one of the country’s oldest football clubs. But they had very different ideas
‘It’s a mess. There’s a real culture war at play’
Chanel have been secretive about the location of their Manchester show. Thank god Mancunians love to gossip…
We send two intrepid reporters to investigate this city’s biggest fashion mystery
‘I was literally manhandled’: Another community divided over traffic and planters
We walked into a blazing row about LTNs. Plus: Our journalism expands to the Midlands...
Danny Boyle’s blockbuster Matrix dance show ‘Free Your Mind’ does exactly what it says on the tin
Zero thoughts, lots of fun