Having found success by reviving Rocky Balboa for the Creed series, Sylvester Stallone again attempts to provide a fitting end for one of his iconic characters in Rambo: Last Blood.

Gene Simmons has his striking make-up. Freddie Mercury was an onstage extrovert. David Bowie had extravagantly dressed alter egos. The Leisure Society’s Nick Hemming needed none of this.

If you want army combat gear, trance music, bloodshed and humour, Manchester’s Macbeth is for you.

Dolly Parton’s musical has tumbled out of the West End and stumbled straight into Manchester.

Manchester’s coolest new cocktail bar and restaurant offers a gin experience with a difference.

MM spoke with Andy Goode – the former flyhalf who appeared 17 times for England throughout his career and made 236 outings in English top-flight rugby, scoring over 2,000 points and becoming the second-highest point scorer in the league’s history – about England’s World Cup chances come later this month.

Mercury Prize Winners Elbow have curated an album as part of an exclusive artwork exhibition heading to Manchester this week – Sounds of the North, in town from September 19-30.

Cornwall is always forgotten. It’s a holiday destination for some, a topless Aiden Turner for others, but for a minority, it’s their home. The forgotten people are the subject of Mark Jenkin’s arresting and jarring first feature, Bait.

With the tent already heating up in the 10th series of the hit Channel 4 baking show, a survey has shown a 48% rise in baking enthusiasts opening their own patisserie-inspired ventures.

As Stage 8 of the Tour of Britain wound its way around Greater Manchester yesterday, the riders were greeted at various locations along the route by placard waving, devil-mask wearing protestors.

After courting controversy over Brexit, former Prime Minister Theresa May has once again managed to divide public opinion and give way to a heated debate by adding Geoffrey Boycott to her resignation honours list.