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Carbuncle Redrock

Carbuncle Cup: North West has two up for WORST new building award

As the shortlist for architecture's most unwanted prize is revealed, Jonathan Schofield revisits a fine...

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Sleuth - Carbuncles, comedians and Haaws

Week 35: in which Sleuth encounters a ringtone bad boy

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The Ladies of Restaurants are coming to Manchester - but who are they?

LOR aim to empower women working in a male-dominated industry

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Mobike vandalism - this is not just a Manchester issue

Jonathan Schofield on the underlying alienation in UK cities

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100 photos which sum up Manchester Pride 2018

From the big parade to the main stage - we've picked our favourites shots from...

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Sleuth - Spice dealers Mobike dilemma + Pride traffic light confusion

Week 34: in which Manchester is beaten by candy floss

Pride Hands

A poem for... Pride

'A Gift' by Andrew McMillan​

Bank Of England

A poem about... gentrification

Bricks is by Danny Moran

2017 09 21 Real Junk Food Project 5

Real Junk Food closed on Oxford Street - but next project is already underway

Having shut its pay-what-you-want cafe, the eco enterprise is crowdfunding its next surplus food venture

2018 08 21 Pride Pedestrian Lights 2

Anything but pedestrian - Pride's LGBT traffic lights revealed

Gender symbols replace green man in new pedestrian lights, specially designed for this weekend’s festival...

2018 08 17 The Man On The Bench

Can crowdfunding save Irlam's iconic 'Man on the Bench'?

£18,000 is needed to restore the vandalised Irlam statue - which turns 40 this year

Vincent Kompany

M4nchester Two is Kompany - Man City captain's new Ancoats property project

The three-time Premier League title winner is the latest sportsman to dip into the Manchester...

Toy Room London

Sleuth - Mamucium reborn, Press Club discontinued and the dangers of drink (part 457)

Week 32: in which Sleuth steals his own bike

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Fire at Don Giovanni: restaurant temporarily closed

The long-standing Italian on Oxford Street will be shut for four weeks

Salford Crescent Masterplan

The Crescent masterplan: making sense of Salford

Jonathan Schofield welcomes green ambition and thinking big next to the city centre

2018 02 06 Paulette Constable

Gender equality: how is Manchester doing?

Damning statistics revealed amidst calls to make Greater Manchester ‘the best place to be a...

Peterloo Film

Peterloo Massacre site and Rutherford Building make Historic England top 10

As a film dramatisation of the bloody 1819 Peterloo protest nears release, Peter Street is...

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Arch Life: the very real threat to Manchester's railway arch businesses

Network Rail's mass sell-off could spell trouble for Manchester traders. Danny Moran reports on what’s...