What's going on at the Royal Exchange?
A cancelled show and low morale - plus the rest of your Thursday edition
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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
Will this be Greater Manchester’s first national nature reserve?
Jack returns to willow tit territory in Wigan. Plus: we meet the founder of OT Creative Space
What can the Curry Mile tell us about multilingual Manchester?
Translating Rusholme with an expert polyglot
A loud protest from Greater Manchester’s 'forgotten towns'
Plus: Andy Burnham’s path back to Westminster, and the rest of your weekly briefing
Local elections special: Labour fluffs its lines in Greater Manchester
Oldham loses its leader and Stockport Council hangs in the balance again, plus: skating with Manchester's first men's roller derby team
Shredding on the streets of Wigan
How the North West influenced the 1980s BMX scene. Plus: a mysterious Deansgate stranger
Turning cartwheels in the face of the abyss
Oldham Athletic fall out of the Football League for the first time in their history