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2019 05 15 Dakota 5

Flashy, glam and tasteful - Manchester's new Dakota Hotel set to be a real asset

Jonathan Schofield admires this hugely impressive addition to Manchester's hotels

2019 05 15 Mark Garner

Gary Usher: Bullied, Bully, or Manipulative PR Genius?

The Confidentials publisher, Mark ‘Gordo’ Garner, exercises his right to reply

2019 05 09 Fighting Spirit 1

Fighting Spirit: why boxing may soon be on prescription

Boxing saved Gwen Richards from a mental health crisis - now her lessons will be...

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Sleuth: Birdcage closes, Lib Dems prepare to take over city council, no car Manchester

Week 19: fun and games and swinging seats

2019 05 09 Mayfield 3

Finally: a new city centre park by 2022

Jonathan Schofield finds the plans for a 6.5 acre green lung a breath of fresh air

Gavin Williamson

Sleuth: Gav Williamson for Northern Powerhouse, crap hotel idea and new artwork massacred

Week 18: Sleuth and the power of attorney puzzle

Mancunian Way Traffic

Manchester's inner ring road is choking us and the city - but there’s another (Mancunian) way

The inner ring road is cutting into the neck of our city. Let’s tear it...

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The Anaconda Cut: a considered view (from the top)

Jonathan Schofield looks across the cities and has a chat with the architects

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Sleuth: Biffa piss-take, continence convention and the best Manchester photo ever

Week 17: Exercise bike. Skis. Coffin. And so it goes...

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Manchester’s Skyscraper Quarter – a look into the future

Ed Howe on towering developments and the city's emerging skyscraper cluster

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Closed 1847 could reopen as a Thai restaurant

And so the churn continues...

04 24 2019 Sip Article New Wakefield St

The Manchester car park disgrace with expensive ramifications for the city

Jonathan Schofield discovers car parks without planning permission avoiding business rates

04 18 2019 Cathedral Gardens 2

Grassed up, parched and dying - surely it's not happening again?

Confidential becomes worried about the state of the new Cathedral Gardens lawns and puts in...

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A look inside Urban Splash's new 'flat pack' Ancoats apartments

New CGIs revealed before modular scheme goes on sale next month

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RIBA reveals North West buildings shortlisted for 2019 awards

Five Greater Manchester projects have been nominated for the architectural prize

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'What does MIF do best? Those projects that are wonderfully indefinable' - Mark Ball, creative...

David Blake discusses The Factory, artistic ambition and the city's growing cultural clout with Manchester...

2019 04 11 Belle Epoque Exterior

"If this is democracy then I’m a banana" - Belle Epoque may face closure after 45 years

Owner is locked in a bitter legal battle with Knutsford council

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Neighbourhood in Spinningfields forced to close (again) following 'extreme violence by staff and...

The venue has had its license revoked by the council following two violent incidents