Life

Even the mention of curling in this country can draw looks of confusion and a shrug as if to suggest that it is an undertaking very much meant for elsewhere.

Dress Your Pet Day, a calendar observance that gives animal lovers the incentive to dress their pets, from cats to piglets, is on the horizon.

A show consisting of music banned by the Nazis will be brought home by Manchester-born producer Peter Brathwaite later this month.

The fact that the new Star Wars movie has opened to almost universal mass hysteria and with British astronaut Tim Peake heading to the International Space Station, millions across the UK and beyond have become re-acquainted with the notion of going into the realms of science fiction.

Tucked away in unit seven of Longsight Business Park is non-profit organisation Rethink Rebuild.

MagnaRep: Reptiles & Exotics, Rescue & Support started over eight years ago as a family idea but quickly turned into a reality when charity trustee and founder Nick Wilburn, 25, took on the project to rescue animals in need.

MM has prepared a guide to the best New Year’s Eve events around Manchester for anyone who has left been a bit on the disorganised side.

Sad and frightening headlines have splashed the front pages of the newspapers in 2015, but a Manchester illustrator is hitting back with a paper celebrating the year’s most cheerful news stories.

MM staff would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and say a big thank you to all our readers for their support throughout 2015.

As families and friends prepare to feast and be merry, one of MM’s reporters spent a night on the streets of Manchester to experience the alienation and despair that will seem unimaginable to most of us this Christmas.

While Christmas is many people’s favourite time of year, it can be particularly lonely for those with mental health problems.