‘I just googled Best City In England and it came up with Manchester.’
We meet Manchester’s new freshers
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‘There has been something primary about Elizabeth Windsor’
A royal obituary writer reflects on the art of the prose memorial
Too many students, not enough housing
The Manchester students being asked to live as far away as Liverpool
'Everybody just stopped. Everybody stood up. People were crying'
Inside a football pub in Stretford, the death of a monarch interrupted matchday
Is Truss’s election a death knell for levelling up?
'All the signs are that she's not going to keep going in quite the same direction as Boris Johnson'
Unscrupulous landlords, soaring rents and sprawling developments: welcome to Victorian Manchester
Some things never change
Bolton’s Trojan golf course, plus how queer is Manchester?
Some argue the Hulton Park proposal is a ‘housing project in golf clothing’
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss take the stage at Manchester’s Tory hustings
‘You don’t get Conservatives booing and hissing at people who support the Labour Party’
Manchester's theatres could be left out in the cold
Energy crisis “catastrophe” as venues call for government support. Plus, the rest of your weekly briefing
‘Things got better, because we were together and we were in love’
An Italian family relocate to Longsight in the 50s
Golden cars, fireworks and pure joy in Rusholme
Plus: we sent Jack Dulhanty on his hardest assignment yet – learning how to perform standup
Why has Manchester been ‘cut off indefinitely’?
Inside the deepening controversy over Avanti’s reduced timetable. Plus the rest of our weekly briefing.
Manchester has a homelessness crisis. But it's not the one you thought
Special Investigation: After six months of reporting, we tell the story of the city's most pressing social problem - and how the authorities are flailing in response
Exclusive: Salford Royal’s A&E declared unsafe after surprise inspection
What happened when the hospital got a visit from the Care Quality Commission on Monday