MM would like to know, have you ever had anything go missing in the post? How was the incident handled?

Obaro Ejimiwe – otherwise known as Ghostpoet – is responsible for some of this year’s most original and exciting music.

Wayne Rooney: England and Manchester United captain, the nation’s all-time leading goal-scorer and… wrestling entertainment superstar? Maybe not quite, but for a few seconds last night Roonamania ran wild at the Manchester Arena.

Manchester’s internationally renowned Hallé Choir have welcomed a new choral director to lead the historic ensemble.

Bobby Long’s intimate gig at the Northern Quarter’s Night & Day Cafe was the perfect venue for what he described as a homecoming show.

Fledgling Liverpudlian quartet Clean Cut Kid carved a post-Halloween indie triumph at the Soup Kitchen last night with a stirring performance exhibiting vigour and versatility.

Most performers take decades to become masters of their craft, but the same cannot be said of forensic mind reader Colin Cloud.

Every year fireworks are lit across the city to celebrate Guy Fawkes’ failed plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I.

Sam Mendes brought us something rather special three years ago with Skyfall. He executed cool, clear and crisp thrills, while weaving an audacious unique story which we had never seen in a Bond film before.

Books exploring magic, bereavement and landscape are among the fiction and nonfiction shortlisted for a £10,000 writing prize dubbed the ‘Booker of the North’.

Enter Shikari, known for their high energy live shows and outspoken lyrics are looking to continue their ‘hobby that’s now got out of hand’ with their new remix album.