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Going underground: The Picc-Vicc Line and the future we never got
What went wrong with Manchester's underground metro system?
The Royal Exchange has pulled off the impossible and crafted a feel-good ‘Brief Encounter’. But does it miss the point?
The tragic love story: now a sunny musical
After over a year in limbo, is the Clean Air Zone coming back?
Plus: Buy a cottage dating back to 1808 in rural Bury
Surviving Manchester’s frozen streets
The temperature has dropped below zero. Everyone else is hurrying home — you have to make it through the night. How?
Why should posh kids have all the fun? On making music a universal, not a luxury
‘I can’t see a world where we deprive such a large proportion of the population [of music]’
The government says it is ‘accelerating’ rail upgrades in the North. But is it?
Plus: A homeless man found dead in the Gay Village
Everyone hates the Arndale, but it's a microcosm of Manchester
‘We’ll be doing over a million footfall a week’
What's it like inside THG, one of Manchester's biggest - and weirdest - companies?
'There was a DJ about three metres away from my ear playing house music and loads of 21-year-olds running around drinking prosecco'
Has Elon Musk chosen Greater Manchester for his new gigafactory?
Plus: Joshi chats to Mike Emmerich about whether academics are doing the city down - and the Portico announces some exciting news
Slems is known as the weirdest university halls in Manchester. That’s exactly how the students like it
‘A bunch of undergraduates who wear gowns and have chapel — it’s not exactly the flavour of the month is it?’
Mill Investigation: How housing for the vulnerable became a ‘lucrative opportunity’ for property investors
A company with links to the Chancellor of the University of Manchester offers ‘government backed’ returns of 10% a year. Do the sums add up?
The forgotten novel: Why we need to revive Manchester’s ‘Madame Bovary’
Madeline Linford is remembered as the first female member of the Guardian’s editorial board. But her 1930 book is witty and devastating