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
Investigations
The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks
‘They are actually squatting in our property, and they’re making money from that’
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
‘It is a shitshow’: Inside the dramatic, toxic fallout from Northern Fashion Week
A bombshell email and claims of orchestrated slander. What happened to an event that promised to put Manchester’s fashion industry on the map?
Bad hospitality: Working in Manchester’s bars and restaurants - and not getting paid for it
‘You just said you can’t pay us but you’re going to sit in front of us and eat £200 sushi?’
Escaping Freight Island: Inside Manchester's latest hospitality meltdown
The directors are 'mortified' about a badly-worded letter to staff - but what does the saga tell us about one of the city's biggest industries?
A death unseen
In searching for answers about a man’s lonely burial in Manchester, I discovered uncomfortable details about his life — or so I thought