Features
9th Dec
| By Rebecca Longbottom
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In 1810 Thomas Henshaw, a businessman from Oldham, left £20,000 in his will to establish an Asylum for the Indigent Blind in Manchester. Today,...
8th Dec
| By Sarai Van-Cook
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Instances of domestic abuse are on the rise and are more frequent at Christmas, a new survey reveals
Officials are bracing themselves for an upsurge in domestic violence over the Christmas period in Manchester and the North West.
Last year it was...
5th Dec
| By Kirsty Bird
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From Victorian age post-mortem photography to funeral selfies, humans are constantly coming up with new ways to deal with death. For as long as we...
5th Dec
| By Dom Poli
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Hidden away in plain sight on Manchester’s Oxford Road, Hatch takes inspiration from Shoreditch box park as the city’s newest and most-hyped pop-up...
5th Dec
| By Megan Luke
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In light of the rise of veganism over the last few years animal rights organisation PETA have released a list of animal friendly idioms to replace...
4th Dec
| By Aaron Sabate
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As Jean Sprackland approached me with her poetry style smile I could see already that the interview ahead was going to be a good one, it...
4th Dec
| By Sarai Van-Cook
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If you have ever wondered what George Orwell’s 1984 might look like if it were set in Barbie’s Dream House, then Rachel Maclean’s bold new film has...
30th Nov
| By Harry Stafford
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Vinyl Exchange record shop on Oldham Street opened for trade in 1988 and soon became the place to go for record collectors and music specialists...
27th Nov
| By Lily Harrison
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The credit checking site ClearScore has been calling for better financial education for young people before they live away during university....
26th Nov
| By Harry Stafford
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Manchester has always championed guitar music in all its forms, from pop to punk, baggy rave to dance to Brit pop and beyond.
In the city...