12 Days of Christmas

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12th November 2020 | By Ellie McDermott

Aspiring young entrepreneur creates ‘pick ‘n’ mix’ business ideal for Christmas gifts

A 19-year-old part-time waitress put on furlough from her waitressing job has started up her own business venture. Shannon Dean has started her own buisness from home while under the...

HS2 route into Piccadilly

5th January 2019 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: 12 is the length in kilometres of the proposed HS2 tunnel

Who really knows how, when and if the HS2 high-speed train network will be built, but proposed plans include a 12km long tunnel under Manchester...

New Order performed at last year's MIF

4th January 2019 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: 11 is a good number of rooms for an art exhibition

I had a tough time trying to come up with something for 11. My search results mainly yielded things about the postcode M11 and the...

Constantine court, which has now been demolished

3rd January 2019 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: 10 is the first address I had in Manchester

Since I became editor of NQ, I’ve wanted to tell my story for a while. My adult life began at the age of 18 when...

Football in 1996

30th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

12 days of Manchester: Six is the number of towns that have a football league team

With 2019 just a whisper away and the football league season just over the mid-point we can say with reasonable cerainty how well or badly...

Bars on Barlow Moor Road

28th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: Four is the average cost in pounds of a pint in Manchester city centre

According to the i newspaper, the average cost of a pint of beer in Manchester is £3.93 Though hardly the most expensive place in the...

The offending road in Manchester

26th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: Two is the number of houses with the address 443 Manchester Road

If you’ve ever been a postman or had a paper round, you can occasionally get perplexed by the numbering of houses on Britain’s streets, but...

Northern Quota Christmas logo

25th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

Merry Christmas from the Northern Quota – a guide to the festive period

Good tidings one and all from everyone at NQ, we’re enjoying a jolly festive period and hope that you are too. Worry not, they aren’t...

One Day Like This

25th December 2018 | By Matt Hartless

12 Days of Manchester: One is the number of days like this a year that will see Elbow right

One Day Like This was a smash hit single for Bury band, Elbow, in 2008. Lead singer, Guy Garvey, once remarked, “My God, how it...