Greater Manchester pledged to cut cancer deaths. Then the promise disappeared
Digging into missed health targets; a publishing CEO wants to set the record straight; and the perilous story of an Afghan asylum seeker
The Mill
Latest Stories
Burying the Hachette with Manchester’s new super publisher
'We are all very, very tense. The atmosphere is roughly equivalent to running into your ex’s new partner at a party’
The quiet, deliberate life of a Manchester cemetery
Three generations of one family have lived on a famous old burial ground
Who is Manchester's new council leader? Bev Craig in her own words
She likes Owen Jones, supported Jeremy Corbyn getting on the ballot and says she has been inspired by growing up in a council house
Returning to one of Manchester’s greatest art treasures
'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'
New polling shows 32 Tory seats in the Red Wall 'at risk'
The Conservative Party conference comes to Manchester, plus the rest of your weekly briefing
An explosion for dignity
At the request of inmates who had taken over Strangeways, Michael Unger, editor of the Manchester Evening News, entered Britain's worst prison riot
'My mental health suffered significantly'
Greater Manchester sees the end of the furlough scheme this week, plus the rest of your weekly briefing
A heated battle over the Green Belt reaches its climax in Greater Manchester
1,754 hectares of protected land are set to be released for development - and there are as many rows brewing
A gorgeous literary hate letter to Manchester
The misery of Michel Butor’s Mancunian anti-detective fiction
Buyers getting 'plenty of property for their money' in Tameside
Plus the rest of your weekly briefing
'They come into your lives and tell you everything, and then disappear'
Meet the five-generation funeral directors; radical politics and domestic terrorism in Manchester; and the death of a political giant
'They come into your lives and tell you everything, and then disappear'
We spoke to a family firm who have looked after Manchester's dead for over 140 years
Underground publishing and domestic terrorism in 1970s Manchester
'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'