Life

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.

500k in a day has quite a ring to it… so this July 5/6 I’ve persuaded two mates to ride from Falmouth to London with me to support a children’s cancer charity.

In 2017, 70,287 deaths were attributed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to drug overdoses with the vast majority being attributed to opioids.

This summer Manchester celebrates the life of the artist, art critic and social thinker John Ruskin with a jam-packed festival, funded and supported by Manchester Metropolitan University and Ruskin’s Guild of St George. As MM found out, even 200 years after his birth he still divides opinion…