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On the face of it disparate in their practices, if this year’s nominees can be said to share a commonality beyond their ...

Stow is a great place and long may it flourish. Manchester needs all the wonderful lunch places it can sustain against the ...

Square Eyes is part of the Lowry’s 25th anniversary programme which will feature annual commissions from international ...

Just buy some of Shakespeare North’s reasonably priced tickets, and go. What you will find is the Handlebards, with whom this ...

But I should park these poetical meanderings and tell you about ‘Legends and Lore’, the 2025/26 theme running through the ...

Black Sabbath: The Ballet is at Lowry, Salford until October 11, 2025. For more information, click here .

Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you recall who sang lead vocals on the 1984 track? Top pop points if your answer was Holly Johnson, the ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...

As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live band in the world and that their 70s’ albums were pretty close to perfect ...

It’s been 20 years since BBC Three debuted Ideal, the left-field sitcom written by Graham Duff. Made at the Beeb’s (now gone) studios on Manchester’s Oxford Road, for seven series it starred Johnny ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...