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September 2024

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Britain doesn’t have a second city

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Manchester could have been Barcelona, not Dallas

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Stockport’s new urban garden

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Do we just have to shrug our shoulders?

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When Michelin came to Manchester

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'I love you, I want to come home'

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December 2023

How to crash a Chanel party

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December 2023

Surviving Manchester’s frozen streets

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The butcher of Moss Side

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November 2023

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Fancy partnering up?

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October 2023
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Will our trains always be a joke?

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October 2023

The unsung changemakers of Longsight

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The vanishing zoo of Rochdale

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The vanishing zoo of Rochdale

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September 2023

Burnham gets his buses

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September 2023

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September 2023
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The powerlessness of Michaela Ali

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August 2023

The abattoir at Newton Heath

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August 2023

Has Manchester Pride got its mojo back?

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August 2023

See you next week

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August 2023
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The boffins strike back

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A bridge, a barge and no one in charge

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Is Manchester going sober?

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Are you free Thursday?

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May 2023

The email that gave the game away

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April 2023

Last orders in paradise

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April 2023

The ship caught in a social media storm

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A standoff over tree-felling in south Manchester

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March 2023
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Escaping Freight Island: Inside Manchester's latest hospitality meltdown

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February 2023
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February 2023
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Who invented the Manchester Bee?

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February 2023

The best reporting advice? Walk everywhere

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January 2023

The very reluctant rise of Paul Dennett

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January 2023
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January 2023

2023 is going to be our year

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January 2023
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December 2022
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2001: A Chekhov Odyssey

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November 2022
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‘We all laugh in the same language’

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October 2022
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An update about The Mill

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October 2022
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October 2022

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October 2022
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11 hours in A&E

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October 2022

The kindness of strangers

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October 2022
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A death unseen

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October 2022

A missing story

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September 2022

In defence of chaos

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September 2022
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Too many students, not enough housing

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September 2022

What if Market Street was...good?

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September 2022
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The strange case of the south Manchester stalker

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August 2022
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What football asks of young women

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August 2022
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A burnt-out Oldham mill gives up its secrets

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July 2022

Manchester's new park in the sky

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July 2022
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When will Moss Side get a chance to mourn?

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June 2022

Why is Salford's population rising so fast?

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June 2022
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June 2022
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June 2022

The IRA missed the soul

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And that link again

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May 2022

‘The white heat of technology’

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May 2022

What's going on at the Royal Exchange?

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May 2022

Does God work in Strangeways?

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May 2022

The paranoid style in Oldham politics

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May 2022

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April 2022

In search of the secret garden

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April 2022

Shredding on the streets of Wigan

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The North’s wondrous dead

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‘Finally, I can eat!’

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Should we be living together again?

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Shopping in hard times

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Escaping war, longing for home

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March 2022
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Killed by a rich kid

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Lydia Becker gets her biography

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Happy Birthday, we’ve got a war here

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March 2022
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A dance extravaganza comes to Manchester

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February 2022

18 years of working nights

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February 2022

Andy Burnham chokes on clean air

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February 2022

Andy Burnham chokes on clean air

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February 2022
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‘They’re not going to bully me’

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February 2022

Salford's fallen star

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February 2022

MI5 and the Arena bombing

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February 2022

My five months reporting on Mana

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Three weekends, three deaths

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February 2022
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Troubling findings at The Christie

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January 2022

Tales from the Salford Pigeon Mafia

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The Manchester underground

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80,000m² of ambition

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January 2022
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A new Covid peak in GM's hospitals

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January 2022

Come to fight, stay to grow

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Manchester is hell

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December 2021

A city going through its longest year

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December 2021

'Feeding the hungry little ones'

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December 2021

'Nobody’s going to know I’m here'

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December 2021
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The man who ran Manchester

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December 2021

A search on the Irwell

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December 2021

We're in print

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December 2021
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Drinking cocktails at Manchester’s pinkest restaurant

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December 2021
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A city centre priest

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December 2021
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Senior Manchester councillor suspended

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November 2021

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November 2021

Going to battle in the countryside

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November 2021
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Stanley Chow, an artist who works in the moment

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November 2021
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'The Northern Powerhouse was a fraud'

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November 2021

Inside the Yousef Makki inquest so far

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November 2021

Inside the Yousef Makki inquest so far

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November 2021

'Fights usually come to you'

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November 2021
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Tony Wilson gets the biography he wanted

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October 2021

Greater Manchester pledged to cut cancer deaths. Then the promise disappeared

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October 2021
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An explosion for dignity

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September 2021

300,000 clubbers return to Manchester

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September 2021
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New tenants at The Monastery

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September 2021

Wait... is Manchester running out of water?

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September 2021
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Life inside Briar Hill Court

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September 2021
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Piecing my life story together

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September 2021

Rashford goes on the attack again

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September 2021

I went to visit the Gypsies of Bolton

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September 2021
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A note from the editor

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August 2021

How China sees Manchester

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August 2021

Anger grows over Manchester Pride

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August 2021
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August 2021

A young creative searches for his break

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August 2021

'A bold project is underway'

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August 2021
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Manchester's cyclists go for gold

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Inside at-home care in Greater Manchester

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July 2021

'Buy a book, kill the Kindle'

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July 2021
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Life on the door

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July 2021
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A spaceman comes to Manchester

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July 2021

'If I have nothing else, I have that'

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July 2021

'We have God and Allah'

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July 2021

'A despicable, shameful act'

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July 2021

What you've missed on The Mill

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July 2021

The ancient, magical land of Borsdane Wood

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July 2021

Community and solace at a women's gym

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July 2021
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The crude politics of Manchester Art Gallery

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June 2021
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Manchester waits to be transformed

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June 2021

'Another great house on Death Row'

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June 2021
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'I’m at risk of losing everything'

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June 2021

See you in a week

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June 2021
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'I only went to Sweetens'

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June 2021
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The people who built The Mill

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June 2021
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My life in Manchester's libraries

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June 2021

The making of Brexitland

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May 2021

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How worrying is the Bolton outbreak?

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May 2021

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May 2021

'What am I running away from?'

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May 2021
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The strange case of Shukri Abdi

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May 2021

The strange case of Shukri Abdi

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May 2021
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Andy Burnham's authentic self

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April 2021
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What you've missed on The Mill

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April 2021

'It's an absolute disgrace'

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April 2021

A quiet life on the edge of Manchester

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April 2021

‘10p for the first one to see the Tower...’

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April 2021

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The Manchester dream

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March 2021

'I want you to be f***ing abolished'

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March 2021
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The resplendent light of Annie Swynnerton

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March 2021
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'The girls are taking over'

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February 2021
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Stop me if you've heard this one before

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February 2021
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We're above average again

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February 2021

The second life of Hulme Crescents

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February 2021

The dream of a Northern Forest

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January 2021

'Only travel if it is essential'

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January 2021

A desperate call from high up on Bleaklow Moor

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January 2021
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When Manchester roared

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January 2021
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The story of a locked-down high street

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January 2021

Is Brexit a bust for this local bra business?

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'This moment is finally upon us'

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December 2020
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'It was like everyone forgot about us'

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December 2020

The Moon was mapped in Manchester

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My road back to Wigan

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November 2020

Two 17-year-olds grow up in the pandemic

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November 2020
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The fight for Winter Hill

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November 2020
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Less than four hours left...

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October 2020
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Andy Burnham's last stand

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October 2020

'We have battened down the hatches'

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The day has come

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September 2020

I miss the old place

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August 2020
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'Oh my god, Tony Wilson has died'

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July 2020

The case for a new newspaper in Manchester

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July 2020

The ghosts of Rochdale

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July 2020
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Tories buy sneakers too

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June 2020

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