On Manchester City Council's most powerful committee, the north of the city is barely represented
Plus: a moving dispatch from inside HMP Forest Bank
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Home away from HOME: The life and times of Cornerhouse
‘It wasn’t anything like the old picture houses that flourished before, and it would be nothing like the multiplexes that followed’
The John Rylands Library is in crisis. Is Christopher Pressler to blame?
‘I have heard what other people cite as evidence and I just don’t see it’
The £60 million loan: Did Trafford Council bet on the wrong skyscraper?
The CIS Tower has been empty for five years, onlookers are wondering what's going on.
‘Crank Hitler fetishists and washed up hooligans’ descend on Oldham
Plus, is Manchester getting its own Guggenheim?
The folk dancers who refuse to stop blacking up
Thrown out by their society and stripped of funding, the ‘Coconutters’ have become poster boys for anti-woke folk
How a Manchester mental health ward neglected a suicidal patient
An inquest finds Greater Manchester Mental Health’s lack of care contributed to a suicide
It was Manchester’s darkest hour. But could it have been stopped?
A new book examines the potential security failings in the lead up to the Manchester Arena attacks
Counter terror police investigating Hashem Abedi’s latest prison attack
Plus: Burnham wants apprentices to have the university experience
NIAMOS has lived many lives. Is this its last?
‘I’ve heard it so many times, six months from now we’re going to close. It’s miraculous it’s still here’
Free jazz, motorcycles and lost bands: why did we forget the Manchester Music Collective?
‘It was the one place where you were guaranteed a gig. It didn't matter how shit you were’
The Taj Mahal, the Galapagos, the Great Barrier Reef…but why not Manchester?
Most cities strive for World Heritage status, we actively resisted it