The IRA missed the soul
As thousands fled the city centre away from the bomb, a team of journalists ran in
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Brutal layoffs and a cancelled show — inside the Royal Exchange's summer of discontent
We've spent weeks speaking to people about what's going on at Manchester's premier theatre
Will Manchester get a city-centre Clean Air Zone?
Plus: A beautiful mill-conversion up for sale, and a Levenshulme takeaway owner who abused the furlough scheme
Memories and regrets in the ghost pubs of Oldham Road
‘I am wet through in the dog-end gutter of a whiplashed Manchester’
‘The white heat of technology’
The 'Hello Computer' author on sexism in tech and getting the MEN online
The council has closed off one of Manchester's main public spaces - we asked them why
A large chunk of Piccadilly Gardens has been closed for around 97% of this year
The police weren't looking for a serial killer — but suddenly I was
Did multiple loving marriages in the North West really end in murder-suicide?
What's going on at the Royal Exchange?
A cancelled show and low morale - plus the rest of your Thursday edition
Does God work in Strangeways?
'I suppose we see the prisoners as they are, rather than how society has deemed them'
Are we doing enough for Manchester Arena survivors?
‘Imagine lying on the floor and you’re holding on and you’ve done everything you possibly can to stay alive’
The misfits and mavericks of Manchester’s punk HQ
‘It was a bit like Australia. The animals had a chance to develop in their own peculiar ways’
Exclusive: The Conservative Party is investigating its links to Raja Miah
Plus: Protesters in Cheadle think their leader has been kidnapped in order to silence him
Andy Burnham draws a new 'red line' on the controversial Clean Air Zone
Plus: skirmishes between activists on St Peter’s Square, and the rest of your weekly briefing
The paranoid style in Oldham politics
How Raja Miah is harnessing a town’s racial resentments for his own ends