Schools start term with a new worry: structural collapse
We report on the GM schools affected by the national concrete scandal. Plus: The MEN is under pressure for its reporting of comments by hotel workers
The Mill
Sara Rowbotham can't bear to hear about the Rochdale grooming scandal anymore
She was feted for her role blowing the whistle on abuse, and was played on TV by Maxine Peake. Now she wants to escape the endless horrors and criminal trials
'I'm from Lancashire, not Greater Manchester': An old question of identity rears its head again
It's a favourite talking point in local Facebook groups. But could it have political consequences in a place like Bolton?
The abattoir at Newton Heath
'Asda, McDonald’s, Harry Styles, football glory and cycling medals mask a century of toil, industrial fatalities and toxic waste'
Has Manchester Pride got its mojo back?
Plus, Manchester United U-turn on Mason Greenwood and Lucy Letby sentenced at Manchester Crown Court
‘Like a wound that isn't healing’ — an inquest into another possible mould death in Greater Manchester
Plus: pressure builds on Greater Manchester Police
Photographing the everyday in South Manchester
'I’m a white middle class man going into an ethnically diverse area. I just wondered, would I be accepted?'
GMP helped to jail an innocent man. But the chief constable won't answer questions
Plus: A damning report into a Salford spinal surgeon, Andy Burnham on a Man United takeover bid and the Altrincham schoolboy who conquered gaming
‘Frightening’ disorder or a ‘moral panic’? Assessing the threat from the city centre teens
A senior councillor tells us ‘it looks like a bloody triple X horror movie. We don't want to be like some bloody American city’
‘This is disgraceful’
A pack of kids closes down Piccadilly Gardens as a video spreads of violence on Market Street
The myth and meteorology of Manchester’s rain
We're known for our drizzle and our downpours. Is that reputation deserved?
‘Children seem a lot angrier’: The lingering legacy of the pandemic in our primary schools
At a meeting of Stockport primaries, several teachers agreed on one thing: their Year 2s are behaving differently