A morality play at the Theatre of Dreams: Manchester United fans can’t agree over their new owners
The club’s worldwide fanbase looks set to pull it away from its roots. Is that such a bad thing?
The Mill
A prize-winning novel takes on ‘poverty and capitalist devastation’. And it's based in Rochdale
'To fully convey the book’s intensity, density, darkness and despair would require quoting all 436 pages'
The secret flights: How Manchester Airport became a gateway for animal testing
Staff are scared to talk about their role in the import of live animals. So is the airport
A young woman made a harassment claim. Then the man she accused was elected mayor
There is fury among councillors in Rochdale after a man being investigated for harassment is now 'swanning around the borough in his gold chain'
Revolution in a cost of living crisis? Head to the Royal Exchange
Plus: Save the date for our birthday party
Are almost one in five Mancunians unemployed?
Plus: 'The Mill continues to report its arse off'
Bad hospitality: Working in Manchester’s bars and restaurants - and not getting paid for it
‘You just said you can’t pay us but you’re going to sit in front of us and eat £200 sushi?’
'Hell on earth': was anywhere more hated than the Manchester of 200 years ago?
Historical voices tell us that even Liverpool — yes, Liverpool — was considered equivalent to a rest cure after too much time in this cursed city
Revealed: the best place in Manchester to be a tree
Why are most of our protected trees in the south of the city? Plus: Gary Neville on foreign investment, and our weekly to do list
Does the Greater Manchester experiment work for Oldham?
In this town, bad economics breeds bad politics
‘Everything is tenser than it seems’: the culture war descends on Dunham Massey
A trigger warning about an almost-invisible figure in a painting is confusing visitors at the National Trust property
Stranded at sea for six days, without water for two, Yun Ma feared the worst
At a salon in south Manchester, a nail technician recites his Odyssey
The email that gave the game away
And how we're breaking news that reaches Westminster
Big Tory losses and another Oldham leader deposed: your essential local elections briefing
'I think Amanda Chadderton might be gone'
A scandal on polling day: Have Stockport Labour broken election law?
A local official admits monitoring the postal votes - and using that information to send activists into a key ward
The only way is up
The city centre is getting denser and denser. Is this a good thing?