Wage increase wil impact around 1200 local authority employees.

Detroit may have Motown, L.A. may have Dr. Dre, New Orleans may have Fats Domino, but we’ve got Shaun Ryder.

Thinking of taking to the streets on two wheels… Read here first!

A quick list of five songs that you should know if you’re living in this city.

The building will be renamed ‘The University of Manchester Library’ starting from this summer

Ciaran Milner takes you on a tour of the best of Manchester’s sport

As The Mancunion reveals that students are increasingly being targeted by sex attackers, rapist Asim Javed faces an indeterminate prison sentence for attacking two women in Fallowfield and Didsbury

When a band like The Courteeners is able to sell out the MEN Arena, there must be a clear dearth of anything remotely listenable coming out of the city.

For the newbies you may not have seen Manchester in the daylight hours yet: it’s grey drizzly with a splash of colour graffittied to the walls every few metres. Manchester is famously nicknamed the Rainy City, and when you first arrive it’s hard to see anything but the concrete blandness, especially if you’ve moved here […]

Is there anything this city doesn’t have?

Three men jailed for trying to recruit Taliban fighters from a stall in Longsight market are set to appeal.

New bars in the Fallowfield and Withington areas will face stricter licensing criteria under plans by councillors

Proposed changes to parliamentary constituencies across Manchester disregard the significance of local identity

There’s more to student life than Fallowfield – one of the world’s great city centres is right on your doorstep

Don’t let the rain ruin your ink.

Ten is the new album from the Manchester Aid to Kosovo organisation, with all proceeds going to community projects and the construction of the Manchester Peace Park in Kosovo. Marking the tenth anniversary of their first compilation, Cohesion, this second release is an assortment of gems from Manchester’s alternative and indie music scene; compiled by The Travelling Band’s Jo Dudderidge.

The cotton mill roar in his voice

This is Manchester

Doctor Faustus, Royal Exchange, 10th September 2010 When Robert Johnson went to the crossroads to sell his soul to the devil, he did so in exchange for an awesome mastery of the guitar and revolutionised the blues forever more. The tale of Faust recounts how he did the same thing in his quest for knowledge […]

An introduction to the theatre scene in Manchester