The Jumper Factory starts with an announcement. The six young actors, who have been seated on chairs lined across the stage, bring their legs together and unclench their hands, rise from their chairs, and begin to chant as one.

Brit Award winner Emeli Sandé is performing in Manchester next week to celebrate the release of her hotly-anticipated album, Real Life.

With just a handful of games played in the 2019/20 season, it already looks like Manchester United are destined to finish their seventh season without a Premier League title win.

Syria Relief – the largest Syria-focused NGO in the UK – is continuing to support 2.4million people in Syria by opening a primary school for children who have fled their homes as a result of the conflict.

The 2019 Football Writing Festival continued at the National Football Museum in Manchester on Monday night with ‘Opta Live’.

Manchester isn’t just a city with two huge football clubs and a reputation for producing iconic music bands. Visit and you’ll find it’s got a thriving gaming scene, with no fewer than 11 land-based casinos.

Virgin Trains have shown yet again why they have achieved gold Investors in People status by getting ready to equip the homeless and their furry friends over the winter months with old staff uniforms transformed by prisoners.

Kerridge has teamed up with Gary Neville to open The Bull & Bear at the former Manchester United star’s Stock Exchange Hotel

Is Phil Neville a good manager? Will England, or anyone, ever reach USA’s level? Are parent clubs from men’s football harming the women’s league?

These were just some of the topics up for discussion at the National Football Museum on Friday night as part of the annual Football Writer’s Festival.

BLOK Manchester is the place to go: it’s a London-based boutique gym which combines an explosion of fitness, fashion, art and design all under one roof, set to open in Ducie Street Warehouse in September in the grade II listed Victorian building just behind Piccadilly.