It seems in keeping with the Catholic iconography that Michaela Yearwood-Dan has cited as one of the organising principles of ...

On a gloomy Sunday in Sale, south Manchester, Hannah Baxendale opens her front door in a red gingham top and polka dot socks.

The concept is a half or whole rotisserie chicken served with flavoured butters and some sides and a glass or two of Crémant, ...

Curtain Up at Lowry in Salford: our chief arts correspondent visits a new exhibition about the communal experience of being ...

Blink and there’s another new restaurant. Manchester’s freshly acquired status as the fastest growing economy in Britain is ...

It’s one of Enid Blyton’s most-loved books. Now The Magic Faraway Tree has been made into a film, starring Andrew Garfield ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing any reviewer of the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is resisting the temptation simply to quote all the best bits. The difficulty is further compounded by there ...

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 ...

There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically life has changed in the last century. Violet, the instigator of a Sheffield munitions factory’s women’s ...