Life

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.

They may have come up just short at SW19 but Manchester did its best to back the Wimbledon challenge of British No.1s Johanna Konta and Andy Murray at the weekend after taking part in a nationwide tennis programme.

Paralympic cycling medallist Crystal Lane was busy this week trying to inspire the next generation of British cyclists.

VR is a growing industry, with audiences ranging from children to older adults and the headsets are forecasted by 2021 to be worth $18.8 Billion.

The exhibition was commissioned and produced as part of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest of a series of collaborations with the gallery, following Ed Atkins’ Performance Capture in 2015.