Life

Nestled 30 metres below the surface of Manchester’s bustling Chinatown is the city’s very own nuclear bunker.

City of football, musical capital and industrial hub – Manchester has many different guises.

MM spoke to Andy Hoyle from the People’s History Museum to find out the top ten places to go.

For the third year running, gaming extravaganza Power Up! is back at the Museum of Science and Industry to celebrate the last 40 years of video games.

We sat down with up and coming band Crossed Lines at the Access to Music College in Manchester to discuss their course, the band and their hopes for the future.

Organisers of a special bike ride last month – celebrating the opening of the Oxford Road corridor cycle route and forming part of Clean Air Week – hope attitudes will have changed ahead of the government’s Air Quality Plan.

Manchester’s Saul Hay Gallery is helping to shine a light on emerging Northern artists this year.

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories will take place at Texture on Lever Street in the city’s Northern Quarter on 23 August.

With series like Danger Mouse, and Chorlton and the Wheelies, and with their animated film of Kenneth Graham’s The Wind in the Willows, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall made a pioneering and lasting contribution to the animation industry in Manchester and in Britain as a whole.

Engels lived right here in Manchester for several decades, the city where his radical philosophies were truly born.

Jerome Caminada, the Manchester-born detective who apparently inspired Sherlock Holmes, is set to have a city centre pub named after him.