There’s a story – unsubstantiated – that a woman may have introduced football to Brazil.

This month’s edition is packed with news, features, entertainment and sport including a full review and analysis of the Kerslake Report into the Manchester Arena attack, an interview with the urban farmers behind Manchester’s most sought-after mushrooms and we try to get to the bottom of Manchester City Council’s affordable housing figures!

Over 60 universities saw picket lines form over suggested changes to the pension scheme, proposed by Universities UK (UUK).

For most sportspeople, winning eight Paralympic medals and picking up an MBE along the way would be enough to call time on a successful career, but Claire Cashmore is no ordinary athlete.

Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for… So goes the haunting refrain of The Smiths’ Suffer Little Children – a requiem to the victims of the Moors Murders and a timeless call to remember the sins of the past.

The team behind leading sports content agency Sportsbeat have joined forces with a former agency editor to launch a news and features press agency this week.

This production at The Lowry – starring Nigel Havers, Denis Lawson and Stephen Tompkinson – follows on from last year’s Old Vic revival and will tour nationwide from February until June.

Manchester was brought back to the swinging sixties as hit West End and Broadway musical Hairspray arrived at the Opera House.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service failed the public during the Manchester Arena attack last year, according to a report published today.

The shackles are off for Olympian Dave Ryding as he prepares for another Delancey British National Alpine Ski Championships with a ninth-place finish in the Olympics already secured.

Youth Politics UK held its inaugural conference at Manchester Grammar School earlier this month to outline its aims and initiate debate on topics such as Brexit.