How student accommodation in Manchester became a luxury industry
An influx of international students and a move to aspirational living has students swapping cheap suburbs for city centre high rises
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From Kuwait to Deansgate: How Manchester drew the Gulf crowd
'Khaleejis' from the Gulf States are now choosing rainy north-west England over better-known cities like London and Paris
Living in exile, the Saharawis find home in Levenshulme
Plus, hundreds of fans protest against Salford Red Devils’ new ownership
Not a mile and not much curry: things are changing on Wilmslow Road
‘The road is so long, it’s big enough to accommodate everyone’
230 years and bust?
As the Chamber of Commerce appoints administrators, we ask if it’s really all over for one of the city’s most storied institutions
GMP meets the Serious Fraud Office about the University of Greater Manchester
Plus: Rumours of Burnham’s return to Westminster
Andrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view?
My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation
Frasier is one of the most popular sitcoms ever written. Manchester is its unseen star
‘Any name recognition was better than invisibility.’
A year on from the riots, the far-right returns to Manchester
‘I’m asking Donald Trump to please intervene and give us our country back’
Freight expectations: the rail terminal delaying United’s new stadium
Plus: On the ground at the weekend’s far-right protests
Digging into Manchester: What lies beneath our feet?
The city region’s expanding population needs an underground network. But when it comes to digging, rocks are destiny
Where is all of Manchester’s new wealth going?
Our economics analyst James Gilmour dissects the data behind a city that suddenly has ‘a lot of cash flowing around’
