Bookworms across the country will be converging on Manchester from today and joining more than 200 authors as the city hosts its ninth Literature Festival.

Creating music should be like telling fairy tales, claims Manchester Camerata director Gábor Takács-Nagy, ahead of their ‘exciting’ interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Community artists reach out to Manchester’s homeless with Matchbox City art project to explore notions of home and place within a city and raise awareness

Talented singer-songwriter Passenger performed an impromptu busking set in Manchester to raise the profile of the Big Issue magazine and its homeless vendors.

Meet the gargoyles lurking around Manchester’s skyline

This week MM looks at the spookiest places in Manchester

There are an estimated 300,000 volunteers in Manchester

Cathedral is currently undergoing a renovation

Rogers Govender praised Manchester’s volunteers