Manchester planning director’s jazzercise for charity raised £50k — from developers
One had filed an application for a controversial tower just before
Investigations
Murder in the playground: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah’s complicated legacy
It's been nearly forty years since an Asian boy was stabbed to death by his white classmate in Burnage. Whether the killing was racially motivated remains strangely contentious to this day
They set out to create a ‘more equal Greater Manchester’. Then they made half their staff redundant before Christmas
‘You could see where this was going. We didn’t have the control to stop it’
Did Wigan Council lie about why it let go of Haigh Hall's creative directors?
The massive renovation project was meant to be transformative for the town. Now, its future looks uncertain
Exclusive: Documents show how Sacha Lord’s company obtained £400,000 of public money during the pandemic
…and that it requested £10,500 of emergency funding - to redesign a website
The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks
‘They are actually squatting in our property, and they’re making money from that’
What went wrong at the Carlton Club?
How the Whalley Range social club reached a crisis point
The high society artist and the insolvent nursery
‘She never understood that if it wasn't for her staff, if we weren't there, she would never have the money that she has now’
A rush of redundancies, multi-university lawfare and a Bentley-owning vice chancellor
The University of Bolton faces a moment of reckoning
Lawsuits, fraud claims and Greater Manchester’s links to a billion-pound property scandal
Our supported housing investigation identifies a curious jump in value for a property in Oldham
The new scam on the block targeting Manchester’s small businesses
‘They started to be aggressive, shouting at me down the phone’
Exclusive: Did the Arts Council allow a woman close to Andy Burnham to assess Sacha Lord’s funding application?
There are serious questions about a conflict of interest at the body that gave Lord’s company over £400,000 of taxpayers’ money
A big twist in the Sacha Lord story: Arts Council and GMCA now investigating
'In light of new information that has been directly brought to our attention'
Exclusive: Did Sacha Lord cheat his way to £400,000 of public money during the pandemic?
The Mill has obtained a funding application that makes a series of highly misleading claims about the nature of his business
‘The greatest arena ever built’: Inside the fiasco at Co-op Live
‘I think they’ve been kidding themselves’
Too close to HOME? Inside the meltdown over an event about 'genocide' in Gaza
The arts venue found itself under fire from two directions. But the real drama was behind the scenes