Life

It’s a sunny Friday afternoon and I’m sat in the foyer of the Royal Exchange with Jack Lord on a rare day off.

It has to be said, it’s been a great few months for women on screen since THAT Game of Thrones episode, Fleabag, Derry Girls, Killing Eve, Back to Life – if you’ve not seen it, add it to the list.

Mancunian MMA fighter Kane Mousah, with 11 wins and only two losses in his career since his professional debut in 2009, is proof the sport is making an impression worldwide. Read more in our interview ahead of the Bellator MMA European Tour on May 4.

Fifteen years after the passing of the Hunting Act, local group Manchester Hunt Sabs are taking direct action to try and protect animals who they feel are still being hunted.

Despite averaging over 40 in his first four innings in an England shirt, two summers ago Lancashire’s Keaton Jennings was undone by South Africa’s pacemen. Now with recent good County Championship form under his belt, the 26-year-old hopes to press for a place in England’s Ashes squad for the battle against Australia.

Over 80% of businesses in Media City have ditched plastic straws, according to a new survey.

It was mid-afternoon on Wednesday, May 26, and Cari Rosen was sat at a bar in central Barcelona.

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It’s frustration with the male-dominated DJ scene that inspired Tracy Duah, Anna Cooper, Sophie Hayter, and Rosa Méthol to form All Hands on Deck (AHoD): the perfectly named DJ collective creating an inclusive platform in Manchester for women and non-binary people to flourish on the turntables.

The makeup industry has always been viewed as a female dominated occupation, but times are quickly changing as men are paving the way for a genderless makeup industry.

Inanimate objects long forgotten are being given a new lease of life at the Whitworth Museum in Manchester until March 2020 to remember nightspot The Reno in Moss Side – where Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali and Chaka Khan once visited.