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The rise of Manchester’s urban gardens
Plus, drama at a Labour Party fundraiser and how to celebrate the end of Dry January
Manchester’s oldest social housing block fell out over a Christmas party
This week, residents at Victoria Square staged a protest against ‘ageism and oppression’. But some say the tensions have to do with class, politics and which part of town you grew up in.
Rochdale is a political minefield, so why do so many want to be its MP?
‘It’ll be pretty poisonous, to be honest’
To eradicate deaths on the road, Greater Manchester looks to Sweden
Plus, your chance to help rewild the city centre
Five months after his mysterious death, a Manchester soldier comes home to rest
Daniel Burke was known as a fearless fighter. But his passing is now being investigated as a homicide
How Greater Manchester Police failed Rochdale’s girls
Plus: It doesn’t look like Metrolink will reach Bolton
Piccadilly Radio started broadcasting 50 years ago. It’s a portal back to Manchester’s grimy, glorious past
Phil Griffin recounts a night at The Electric Circus, and a morning in Collyhurst looking for everything he lost
Amy Burdon put her life savings into her dance studio. Then, the landlords took it away
‘I’m a single mum, we haven’t got masses of money, we have to be able to trust people’
Manchester’s AI sector is small, and that’s its superpower
‘If you’re a business and you’re not implementing AI you’re going to be left behind’
Are skyscrapers bad for Manchester?
Plus: Salford declares a homelessness crisis and we welcome hundreds of new Millers
Have the arts been ‘colonised’ by the middle class?
Dave Moutrey is about to start full time as Manchester’s Director of Culture after many years running HOME. And he has strong views about who art should be for
After the credits rolled: What happened to the cast of 2023?
Returning to some of the people we met this year
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.