Manchester International Festival returns this July and will be bigger than ever: the 18-day festival welcoming projects from stars including Idris Elba, Skepta, David Lynch and Yoko Ono.

A jar of discarded cigarettes. A crate of booze, paid for with redundancy money. Scarred wallpaper. These are the images that fill Richard Billingham’s directorial debut Ray & Liz, and you’d be right in thinking it’s a fairly miserable affair.

When you’re 14 years old and you’re training alongside a World Rugby Player of the Year nominee you know it’s going to be a pretty good week.

Stockport County move into pole position in the National League North with a win at Boston United, whilst several playoff places are still up for grabs.

Denny Solomona says the next chance he gets to play for England will be one that he doesn’t take for granted.

The moor’s Wikipedia page even has a subsection dedicated to the strange events that have occurred there over the years: from the plane crash in 1949, which killed 24, to being the burial site of Moors Murders victims.

With a Brit in his back pocket and a debut album fresh on the shelves you’d say What a Time to Be Alive for Tom Walker as he stunned a lucky set of fans at an exclusive Hits Radio gig at the Deaf Institute.

If Jono Ross’s analysis of Akker van der Merwe as ‘Schalk Brits with added physicality’ turns out to be accurate Sale Sharks could be going places next season.

Drag queen Trixie Mattel talks about her love for the UK drag scene as she brings her one-woman-show to Manchester this month.