Bribes, a defamation lawsuit and Elf nicotine pouches: What’s been going on at Educate & Empower?
‘If you pay us loads of money, we’ll take it down’
Investigations
The millionaire and the absurd truth behind the Educate and Empower fundraisers
Some say he’s ‘just a f*cking bully’. He says he’s Manchester’s ‘most pleasant man’
Never have the Greens been so successful. Never has the fighting been so bad
'I will stand on rooftops and shout 'that man is not Green!''
A sniper team and the ‘inside man’: The real story of the IRA bomb
Special Investigation: After 30 years, we can reveal who ordered and carried out the 1996 attack on Manchester - and why charges were never brought
The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery
Special Investigation: we can reveal the real story of the IRA attack that destroyed the city centre - and why nobody was ever brought to justice
‘Bogus Independents’: Tameside Labour accused of planting its own Independent candidates
‘We’ve been campaigning truthfully and in accordance with the rules and regulations'
Falling glass, a £23m bill and a Cypriot billionaire: The never-ending nightmare at Beetham Tower
A bitter dispute over a cladding defect has been going on for over a decade
Is Chris Kenna Manchester’s first AI billionaire in the making — or a serial fantasist?
He’s been feted by the press as a tech pioneer. But we can’t find his data centres
'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton
Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups
Worried parents, slick takeovers and a £30m windfall: How chains snapped up Greater Manchester’s nurseries
What happens when childcare goes corporate
Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton
People across the constituency thought they were getting a letter from a concerned pensioner, they didn’t know she was working for Reform
The Baroness and the banker: more questions the University of Greater Manchester doesn’t want to answer
The university has paid millions to a company controlled by a senior staff member and the wife of its chair of governors
Manchester’s leaders facing staff backlash over sexual misconduct
Inside a hastily-organised video call with 2,500 council staff
Meet the London lawyer terrorising the leaseholders of Bolton
‘If these allegations are true, this is one of the most egregious cases of bullying I have ever seen’
Exclusive: Senior council officials engaged in ‘sleazy’ behaviour towards young female staff
Confidential report tells how an awards ceremony descended into bar-hopping and sexual misconduct
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found