The opportunist: How Sir Howard Bernstein bent Manchester to his will
An obituary for one of the city’s most influential figures
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The new scam on the block targeting Manchester’s small businesses
‘They started to be aggressive, shouting at me down the phone’
Cracked kerbs and pained smiles
Sophie Atkinson discovers first-hand just how disability friendly Manchester is - or isn’t
Greater Manchester’s universities are at war
Plus, the story of a Czech Roma lorry driver who built a new life in Manchester
Labour get a shot at Galloway
‘I’m only doing this because I love my hometown, and like many Rochdalians, I’m sick of it being a bad news story in the Evening News.’
Exclusive: Did the Arts Council allow a woman close to Andy Burnham to assess Sacha Lord’s funding application?
There are serious questions about a conflict of interest at the body that gave Lord’s company over £400,000 of taxpayers’ money
Britain doesn’t have a second city
A little-known law states that neither Birmingham nor Manchester are big enough
Friedrich Engels gets a taste of the high life
Plus: Rochdale’s Lib Dem candidate defends a questionable endorsement
Clinging on in east Manchester
In the shadow of the Etihad Stadium, the Grey Mare Lane estate is full of memories for me: many happy, some violent and unthinkable. Soon it will be gone
In the coming election, Stockport might have that rare thing: a three-way marginal
‘I vote Conservative, and that’s because when the Conservatives are in, I make more money’
‘Massively moving’: Sir Mark Elder waves goodbye to Manchester
Plus: A big new poll predicts wipeout for the Conservatives
The never-ending editor: What drove Harry Evans?
By the 1990s, he moved in a rarefied world of movie stars and statesmen. But Britain’s greatest modern newspaperman drew his campaigning zeal from his upbringing in Manchester
‘It’s basically a f*** you to the left’: Labour’s candidate selections are going down well
Plus: The gorgeous ginnel gardens of Moss Side
Manchester’s housing crisis is in the suburbs
Don’t get distracted by the towers — the real problems can be found in places like Stretford
