Life

At school, he was the ‘fat kid.’ He used to hide in the toilet to avoid class. He wasn’t an intellectual, nor was he a great sportsman.

It was only last year that Manchester was turned into a giant beehive thanks to the Bee in the City art trail, but there’s a new art trail to take part of this summer – 19 giant frogs will be situated across Stockport town centre.

Women are continuously fighting to gain equality in everyday life – and it is no exception within the world of professional wrestling.

This year Green Party Cllr Michael Welton won the final Altrincham seat.

Does it spark joy? It’s a question – or perhaps rather a catchphrase – that has become instantly recognisable this year thanks to Marie Kondo’s Netflix show ‘Tidying Up with Marie Kondo’.

It was 7am on August 15, 2005, and thousands of expectant Mancunians were bustling their way down Brian Statham Way, eager to get through the Old Trafford turnstiles and discover how this compelling Ashes Test match was going to conclude.

Dr Warren Mansell and his team at the University of Manchester say that over 100 years of behaviourist theory that underpins psychological discourse and therapies may have fundamentally misunderstood human behaviour.

This summer, the city will celebrate the 200th birthday of the artist, writer and social reformer who paved the way for its Gothic tradition.

If you ask anyone from the UK who grew up between the 1960s and 1980s what they think of when someone mentions professional wrestling, they will probably talk about Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and watching World of Sport on ITV.

In 1997, a 13-year-old girl named Heaven opened up to social worker Tarana Burke about her mother’s boyfriend molesting her.

Manchester is one of two UK cities to set out a zero waste aim – meaning that by 2050, we need to be recycling or recovering energy from as much waste as we use, ensuring nothing goes to landfill.