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One Christmas Eve, Manchester came under a rain of fire

One critic called it 'the longest lavatory wall in Europe'. But did the Arndale Centre save city-centre shopping?

The owner of Sammy’s Bar was accused of aggressive behaviour online. Then, the reviews disappeared

The Central Library mystery, the David Hockney show and the joy of free ping pong

Forgot to tap out when leaving the tram? You’ve helped TfGM earn millions

Murder in the playground: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah’s complicated legacy

The secret of happieness

‘When a child gets pinned to the ground by three police officers, that should churn you as a human’

Levenshulme Market to (sort of) return, a questionable Green Summit sponsor and Oldham’s child acting talent

Nursing old grudges will tear us apart

They set out to create a ‘more equal Greater Manchester’. Then they made half their staff redundant before Christmas

At the heart of the Cresta Court Hotel storm

‘Thieves, liars and traitors’

The past and future of news

Did Wigan Council lie about why it let go of Haigh Hall's creative directors?

The Carlton Club has won its battle to survive. What next?

‘Heavy-handed and discriminatory’: Why did GMP block dozens of Traveller children from attending the Christmas Markets?

The secret history of the world’s first suburb

Is it time to bin off the Christmas markets? A war waging on St Ann’s Square

In the ring with Marty Jones: The Oldham legend keeping British wrestling alive

The nightmare neighbour of Deansgate Square

Manchester already has the largest eruv in the UK. So why has Hale’s met resistance?

The MTV EMAs looked great on TV. In person, it was a drag

Places for Everyone — but maybe not Oldham

How Afflecks went from quirky indie to part of a retail portfolio

How Hopwood DePree fumbled his Hollywood ending

At Manchester’s dementia music cafes, my grandmother comes alive again

Downton Shabby takes a downward turn

Does the mummy who inspired Bram Stoker now reside in Manchester?

Footing the bill: Manchester restaurants brace for the budget

A good week for the Millers

Bridging the north-south literacy divide

What’s going on with St Peter’s Square?

Making the case for a Mill writer living in Todmorden

An overnight success: Thousands board Greater Manchester’s new night buses

Scary, dangerous and bad for your weekends: Going undercover with the far-right

'We should all hang our heads in shame': On the picket line with Manchester psychologists

How Mr Loophole helps speeding celebrities walk free

Exclusive: Manchester companies fined for sending millions of spam messages

Lost in translation: Is the University of Manchester letting down its overseas students?

Café Blah’s owners got locked out by their landlord. So they locked themselves in

Remembering my dad through photos of Hulme’s weird and wonderful nightlife

More scrutiny for Manchester’s taxpayer-backed luxury flats

Wrestling with the ghosts of Manchester Town Hall

Catching up with Manchester’s first openly trans councillor

Manchester’s hottest new LGBTQ club night brings generations together

Greater Manchester’s infamous climate could be the key to preserving British trees

Exclusive: Documents show how Sacha Lord’s company obtained £400,000 of public money during the pandemic

I was a Coronation Street teddy boy

Amid horrific conflict and trauma, a Lancashire doctor tries to make a difference

Are Greater Manchester graduates missing out?

The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks

At Manchester’s African and Caribbean social clubs, dominoes are both leisure and lifeline

My thwarted plan to buy the Observer

Is Manchester Airport really that bad?

What went wrong at the Carlton Club?

Altrincham Market has been a roaring success. But don't try to imitate it

Homeless people need healthcare the most. So why do they often miss out?

Will the new Old Trafford be the ‘biggest regeneration project in the North’?

Village people

The high society artist and the insolvent nursery

The Green Gap: why are there so few parks in the city centre?

Long-awaited night buses launch in Greater Manchester

You're in an Oasis cover band. What happens now?

Barefoot, no harness, on top of The Shard

What is The Mill playing at?

Should Manchester Pride be a party or a protest?

Exclusive: Salford Council is investigating the White Hotel

The last knight of Baguley Hall

Is there room for rioters in Manchester’s overcrowded prisons?

Manchester commemorates ‘great men’ like Engels. Why not Elizabeth Prout?

A rush of redundancies, multi-university lawfare and a Bentley-owning vice chancellor

Levenshulme Pride dog show; the miracle of mobility and John Rylands’ hidden treasures

'Like being hit in the face', Bury's reeking landfill wants to expand operations

The enemies within: How the pandemic radicalised Britain

Summertime sadness: can Manchester’s nightlife survive the student exodus?

How do you persuade ordinary Mancunians to let you photograph them in their houses? Their cats

Nazi salutes and attacks on asylum seeker hotels: rioting spreads from Southport

The power of a growing team

Manchester should bid for the 2036 Olympics

Why is Greater Manchester’s public realm so tatty?

At King of the Ring, violence is the means and the end

Another video of the Manchester Airport police attack — but much remains unanswered

Doctors in deprivation: prescribing on the frontline

Lawsuits, fraud claims and Greater Manchester’s links to a billion-pound property scandal

Has the solution to sewage dumping been found in Manchester?

GMP's 'weapon of control': strip-searching

The strange death of Levenshulme Market

Exclusive: How did a semi in Harpurhey sell for £1.8m?

How to save your local theatre

Where does the two-child benefit cap hit hardest in Greater Manchester?

The tragedy of Crompton Lodge

“No other city in Britain has this much drama”

The case for a Manchester lido, and the case against pop-up beach clubs

“Poshness is out”: Greater Manchester MPs take their seats in Keir Starmer’s cabinet

Foden, Palmer, Mainoo: how did Stockport become a football talent factory?

Our weekend to do list

Ministers toppled, Tories banished from Greater Manchester: Inside the Labour landslide

A love of Elgar, a dread of routine

The week Greater Manchester turns red (and a bit yellow) again?

Do Manchester's theatres have a class problem?

Private schools, 'population explosions' and an unloved town centre

Dysfunction returns to Manchester Airport

The opportunist: How Sir Howard Bernstein bent Manchester to his will

The new scam on the block targeting Manchester’s small businesses

Cracked kerbs and pained smiles

Greater Manchester’s universities are at war

Labour get a shot at Galloway

Exclusive: Did the Arts Council allow a woman close to Andy Burnham to assess Sacha Lord’s funding application?

Britain doesn’t have a second city

Friedrich Engels gets a taste of the high life

Clinging on in east Manchester

In the coming election, Stockport might have that rare thing: a three-way marginal

In the 90s, reality TV descended on Manchester. Students were offered free rent — in exchange for filming their lives

‘Massively moving’: Sir Mark Elder waves goodbye to Manchester

The never-ending editor: What drove Harry Evans?

‘It’s basically a f*** you to the left’: Labour’s candidate selections are going down well

Manchester’s housing crisis is in the suburbs

How to sell out in the ’70s

Sacha Lord has withdrawn his legal threat against The Mill

A big twist in the Sacha Lord story: Arts Council and GMCA now investigating

'It was solely a security company. I couldn’t be surer'

Sacha Lord is threatening to sue us. Give us a hand

Community fact-check: Primary Events

Why isn’t Andy Burnham’s GMCA answering questions about Sacha Lord?

Exclusive: Did Sacha Lord cheat his way to £400,000 of public money during the pandemic?

A church in Fallowfield became a second home for asylum seekers. Now, they might be forced to leave

Chorlton tasted Miami Crispy - and spat it right back out

When Putin came to Manchester for lunch

HSBC, gone. Grant Thornton, gone. Pinsent Masons, gone. Is Spinningfields in trouble?

A red tide is rising in the North West

Why Labour stormed local elections across the country - but lost ground in Greater Manchester

‘You’re explicitly saying that I’m under arrest right now?’

What does a gruesome murder do to a street?

“Pretty crafty in my view”: Is the Rail Minister taking Burnham and Rotheram for a ride?

‘The greatest arena ever built’: Inside the fiasco at Co-op Live

Sacha Lord’s new book is eye-opening and colourful, but what does it tell us about Manchester?

A Manchester not-quite 10K, Co-op Live's little bump and a catch up with a chicken shop lifer

After hundreds of millions of pounds of investment and three years of construction, is Manchester’s newest arena a ‘shitshow’?

They decided what our city will look like, then people started asking why

Tensions over Galloway’s newfound sway in South Manchester boil over

Does Manchester really need a new football league?

Arena survivors become the first to take MI5 to court for not stopping attack

Manchester's new homeless camp has good intentions. Is that enough?

Is Greater Manchester where LTNs go to die?

Confusing alliances, no-nonsense graft and general malaise: insights into this year's local elections

A dismembered torso sparks a grisly investigation in Salford

Too close to HOME? Inside the meltdown over an event about 'genocide' in Gaza

Keys Money Lipstick, a no-arsehole policy and queues round the block: Remembering Andy Martin’s Star and Garter

The short, controversial document that changed the face of Manchester

'It has an almost relic-like quality to it'

Is the council guilty of 'bizarrely misreading the cultural essence' of Manchester?

My night at the murder mystery hotel

Approved at last: Plans for 175,000 new homes across Greater Manchester

He complained about late night noise. Then a city-wide row erupted

The battle for control of Withins Reservoir

Manchester could have been Barcelona, not Dallas

Stockport’s new urban garden

Do we just have to shrug our shoulders?

The price of living in communal paradise: admin, absentee volunteers and cat sh*t wars

Months after a violent attack on a homeless man, the police are still trying to rebuild trust

The man who stopped paying council tax

Why is it taking so long to get bikes on trams?

Is Manchester an example to be followed - or a cautionary tale?

Exclusive: Why did a property developer donate to Andy Burnham's re-election campaign?

Could more have been done to save Victoria Olabode?

Can an anti-abortion group exist at the University of Manchester?

For 40 years, Rice and Three has fuelled Manchester

Yes, Galloway won Rochdale. But it’s the runner up who really tells us about politics in the town

Manchester makes me feel claustrophobic. I tried to find out why

Rochdale on the brink

You will always be in love, you will always be in love with love

Andy Burnham's new book isn't exactly subtle. But can it rally a movement?

The monks of Hulme Crescents

Burnham promises more Bee Network buses, minus the teething pains

You’re a pacifist — a world war is declared. What now?

After Labour blows up in Rochdale, George Galloway seizes his chance

The Mancunian Instagram shop selling weed brownies; ‘Conversation Stations’ and Green Island Festival

BREAKING: Labour withdraws support from its candidate in Rochdale, effectively ending its campaign

Can anyone save Piccadilly Gardens?

We all know Levenshulme’s gentrification story. How true is it?

When Michelin came to Manchester

Will 2024 be a prosperous year for Manchester?

‘I’m going insane’: My afternoon at Manchester’s anti-woke meetup

A festive funding shock - and the story behind the hole in your local council's budget

The rise of Manchester’s urban gardens

Manchester’s oldest social housing block fell out over a Christmas party

Rochdale is a political minefield, so why do so many want to be its MP?

On the trail of a 200-year-old theatre playbill

To eradicate deaths on the road, Greater Manchester looks to Sweden

Five months after his mysterious death, a Manchester soldier comes home to rest

Last month, Andy Burnham signed a landmark deal with Fujitsu. Then the Post Office scandal erupted

Embrace the boggart!

How Greater Manchester Police failed Rochdale’s girls

Piccadilly Radio started broadcasting 50 years ago. It’s a portal back to Manchester’s grimy, glorious past

Amy Burdon put her life savings into her dance studio. Then, the landlords took it away

Manchester’s AI sector is small, and that’s its superpower

Are skyscrapers bad for Manchester?

Have the arts been ‘colonised’ by the middle class?

They didn't realise they were being filmed, but 14 million were watching

For help surviving Drynuary, look to the past