The quiet, deliberate life of a Manchester cemetery
Three generations of one family have lived on a famous old burial ground
Three generations of one family have lived on a famous old burial ground
She likes Owen Jones, supported Jeremy Corbyn getting on the ballot and says she has been inspired by growing up in a council house
'Celebrating the resurrection of Christ in Glory, a sacred image I don’t believe in, and a mighty work of art I will applaud to the end of my allotted time'
The Conservative Party conference comes to Manchester, plus the rest of your weekly briefing
At the request of inmates who had taken over Strangeways, Michael Unger, editor of the Manchester Evening News, entered Britain's worst prison riot
Greater Manchester sees the end of the furlough scheme this week, plus the rest of your weekly briefing
1,754 hectares of protected land are set to be released for development - and there are as many rows brewing
'People literally took sledgehammers to the altars'
The misery of Michel Butor’s Mancunian anti-detective fiction
Plus the rest of your weekly briefing
Meet the five-generation funeral directors; radical politics and domestic terrorism in Manchester; and the death of a political giant
We spoke to a family firm who have looked after Manchester's dead for over 140 years
'My research took me to the Magic Village, a club opened in March 1968 by DJ and music aficionado Roger Eagle in a dank Dickensian cellar in Cromford Court'
'Peter put down his bacon sandwich, took a sip of tea and asked: “What are you in politics for if not to do the big stuff?”'
Plus, a very local weather forecast
'They made it feel like you belonged to something. I don’t remember being this happy in all my life'