'I'm from Lancashire, not Greater Manchester': An old question of identity rears its head again
It's a favourite talking point in local Facebook groups. But could it have political consequences in a place like Bolton?
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Inside the Peel empire: Is trouble brewing at the company that owns everything?
‘I have to say I did get a bit agitated last week. All this speculation about Peel’s in difficulty… we’re not'
The abattoir at Newton Heath
'Asda, McDonald’s, Harry Styles, football glory and cycling medals mask a century of toil, industrial fatalities and toxic waste'
Has Manchester Pride got its mojo back?
Plus, Manchester United U-turn on Mason Greenwood and Lucy Letby sentenced at Manchester Crown Court
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A rare break from us
Sink the pink: whistling down our most underrated tram line
A tour of Rochdale to Victoria Station in poems
Who's afraid of Soho House?
'I think this will be the hardest one for them to pull off'
After a humiliating performance, Winnie Su gave up all hopes of becoming a pianist. Now she’s a rising star
'I always felt really awful and I felt really guilty'
‘Like a wound that isn't healing’ — an inquest into another possible mould death in Greater Manchester
Plus: pressure builds on Greater Manchester Police
'I never wanted to move from Ukraine. My friends wanted to, but I never did.'
Last year, we met the Tyshkul family as they arrived in the UK after escaping the war in Ukraine. What’s life been like for them since as refugees in Manchester?
Photographing the everyday in South Manchester
'I’m a white middle class man going into an ethnically diverse area. I just wondered, would I be accepted?'
The tearful, surprising, ecstatic return of Bury FC
138 years of history restored at Gigg Lane
GMP helped to jail an innocent man. But the chief constable won't answer questions
Plus: A damning report into a Salford spinal surgeon, Andy Burnham on a Man United takeover bid and the Altrincham schoolboy who conquered gaming
Completing our 5k - and closing in on a record
An editor's note from Joshi
The billion pound Manchester question: Who has benefited from the city's breakneck growth?
Critics say we have built a neoliberal playground for developers and affluent newcomers. But that’s not exactly what the data shows
‘Frightening’ disorder or a ‘moral panic’? Assessing the threat from the city centre teens
A senior councillor tells us ‘it looks like a bloody triple X horror movie. We don't want to be like some bloody American city’