‘It is a shitshow’: Inside the dramatic, toxic fallout from Northern Fashion Week
A bombshell email and claims of orchestrated slander. What happened to an event that promised to put Manchester’s fashion industry on the map?
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Why Greater Manchester will need 180,000 more graduates
Plus: 'Completely unacceptable': The housing association gets to work on Michaela's flat
The powerlessness of Michaela Ali
A pregnant health worker has spent months living in hotels because a social housing provider didn’t repair her rat-infested flat
‘There’s a big piece of the jigsaw that seems missing’
What's behind repeated attacks on a business in the Gay Village? Plus: Manchester Museum grapples with ‘the violence that our collections contain’
Over a quarter of Greater Manchester is used for farming. Should we understand it better?
Plus: A contentious event draws protests at the People's History Museum
Who built the New Manchester? A book examines politics, homophobia and the Haçienda
Andy Spinoza’s ‘Manchester Unspun’ is a sprawling chronicle of a changing city - and it doesn't shy away from controversy
Battening down the Hatches: We all love a food hall, but does the model actually work?
'As operators of food halls and street food events, they’re not really sustainable anymore'
Manchester is an architectural capital now. But are we also destroying our heritage?
A new book and a soon-to-be-released report tell different stories about what we're building
Schools start term with a new worry: structural collapse
We report on the GM schools affected by the national concrete scandal. Plus: The MEN is under pressure for its reporting of comments by hotel workers
Burnage Garden Village is at war - and the stakes couldn't be lower
My return to a collectivist utopia
Sara Rowbotham can't bear to hear about the Rochdale grooming scandal anymore
She was feted for her role blowing the whistle on abuse, and was played on TV by Maxine Peake. Now she wants to escape the endless horrors and criminal trials
'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?