
New tenants at The Monastery
‘People literally took sledgehammers to the altars’
‘People literally took sledgehammers to the altars’
‘If you are used to seeing it full, an empty reservoir can come as a shock’
The misery of Michel Butor’s Mancunian anti-detective fiction
Plus the rest of your weekly briefing
‘The landlords know I have a cat’
Meet the five-generation funeral directors; radical politics and domestic terrorism in Manchester; and the death of a political giant
We spoke to a family firm who have looked after Manchester’s dead for over 140 years
‘My research took me to the Magic Village, a club opened in March 1968 by DJ and music aficionado Roger Eagle in a dank Dickensian cellar in Cromford Court’
‘Peter put down his bacon sandwich, took a sip of tea and asked: “What are you in politics for if not to do the big stuff?”’
Plus, a very local weather forecast
‘They made it feel like you belonged to something. I don’t remember being this happy in all my life’
Sir Richard Leese tells us about his decision to step down, and we visit ‘the ghost estate’
Plus: The city’s political weather changes overnight as Sir Richard Leese steps down
I typed the words: ‘So... who’s my dad?’
Plus: listen to ‘Smear: Cartels and conspiracies in Oldham’
‘Thirty years I socialised with them locals. And they’re good people but they end up looking down on you, because of all the carrying on of the newspapers and gossipers at the pub’