'Make it free again': what Manchester's returning students want from university this year
On incestuous friendship groups; trying to break into MI6 and moving to a city you despise for love
The Mill
Why Greater Manchester will need 180,000 more graduates
Plus: 'Completely unacceptable': The housing association gets to work on Michaela's flat
‘There’s a big piece of the jigsaw that seems missing’
What's behind repeated attacks on a business in the Gay Village? Plus: Manchester Museum grapples with ‘the violence that our collections contain’
Over a quarter of Greater Manchester is used for farming. Should we understand it better?
Plus: A contentious event draws protests at the People's History Museum
Who built the New Manchester? A book examines politics, homophobia and the Haçienda
Andy Spinoza’s ‘Manchester Unspun’ is a sprawling chronicle of a changing city - and it doesn't shy away from controversy
Manchester is an architectural capital now. But are we also destroying our heritage?
A new book and a soon-to-be-released report tell different stories about what we're building
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
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?'