The RBS Six Nations 2017 kicks-off this Saturday with fans bracing themselves for a nerve-jangling feast of rugby over the next couple of months.

Following the announcement of initial plans, there has been outcry among residents, protest groups and professionals alike as to whether this type of plan is sustainable.

Skateboarding, more so than any other sport, is connected to a culture.

Frightened Rabbit are a band that have transformed drastically over the course of their last three albums.

Lying prone on a table, naked to the waist and with multiple fine pronged needles sticking from their backs, acupuncture patients hardly look a picture of serenity and calm.

The Beast are set to play three nights at The Lowry Theatre, Salford, from Wednesday through to Friday as part of the theatre’s Halloween Spooktacular.

Jenny Hval brings her unique brand of experimental electronic pop to Manchester’s Soup Kitchen this Tuesday, as she tours her new album Blood Bitch.

“It comes through the window, it comes through the floor, it comes through the roof and, it comes through the door…”

Two Mancunian cousins will take on the Welsh Three Peaks Challenge in aid of refugees this October.

Clad in a red unitard, with two space hoppers strategically positioned to create a bulbous and grotesque form, the Red Bastard turns heads wherever he goes.

A cash handling courier got imprisoned in the back of his own van and required four police cars and six officers to get him out – on reportedly his first day at work.