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Let there be light - Manchester Cathedral lifted from gloom

Jonathan Schofield welcomes the cathedral's new lighting and effects

18 01 24 Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester Art Gallery to remove all paintings

Following the controversial removal of 'Hylas and the Nymphs', Sleuth speaks to the curator

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Introducing Bridgewater Wharf

New buy-to-let opportunity close to the city centre

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How high does Manchester rank in the Global Cannabis Price Index?

How much do we pay and how much do we consume, compared with London, Liverpool...

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Liam Gallagher, Pharrell and The xx to headline Parklife 2018

Lorde, Skepta, A$AP Rocky and Everything Everything also confirmed for Heaton Park festival this summer...

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Historic England will never back Neville's tower, but let’s build it anyway

Jonathan Schofield on why Gary Neville, Stephen Hodder and city planners should ignore the bureaucratic...

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'They can't eat steel and glass' - Manchester's child poverty shame

Manchester is the second worst local authority in the country for child poverty and something...

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Greatest tourism idea ever + dead hotel guest isn’t dead

Sleuth week 4: ...plus, Japanese tourists call police after beer in NQ

2018 01 25 Cities Of Hope

Suffragette mural unveiled in Northern Quarter

‘Serenity,’ by stencil artist duo SNIK, marks the start of this year’s Cities of Hope...

2018 01 25 Simon Attard

Back to Black: how one Manchester artist is bending the rules

We talk crime, Angel Meadows and ancient self help books with talented young painter Simon...

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Mark E Smith bit me... and I loved him for it

Friend and fellow punk rocker John Robb remembers The Fall frontman and 'cult curmudgeon' who...

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Why does the Mayor of Salford live in a council house?

Paul Dennett speaks to Cllr John Blundell about social housing, rough sleeping and Salford’s gentrification...

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Freemasons return to Manchester Hall

New Masonic Centre unveiled after 300-year anniversary celebrations and a stunning two-year refurb

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Council rename Gay Village + Catalan restaurant quashed + 'Hip' Ancoats exposed

Sleuth week 3: ...plus man in Blur t-shirt fears for life

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Ignore the doom and gloom, Manchester is in boom

The housing crisis. A strained NHS. Thundersnow? It's easy to get down on the city...

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Manchester burger allergy death was 'misadventure'

Inquest concludes that Shahida Shahid died following a serious 'lack of communication'

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So, farewell then big fella

Jonathan Schofield bids farewell to Manchester Town Hall as it closes for a major £330m...