Create Salford 2015: Festival showcasing uni student’s work returns to MediaCityUK
A four-day festival showcasing the best creative work from Salford University’s arts and media students will return to MediaCityUK tomorrow.
Scourge of the selfie: Is taking too many snaps ruining the joy of real life?
While one may consider this the quintessential essence of a narcissistic and intellectually stunted age, others see the photograph as a beneficial tool for the distribution of knowledge and experience.
John Leech appointed to Nick Clegg’s Shadow Cabinet team as culture spokesman
Liberal Democrat MP for South Manchester, John Leech has today joined the Shadow Cabinet as a spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport.
Legal Eagle: If police scrap cautions, is it goodbye to slaps on the wrist?
The government is planning to scrap the use of police cautions where those who commit minor offences are given a formal warning across England and Wales. The new scheme will replace the use of simple cautions and will be tougher than the current system, giving victims more say.
Fusion: Black History Month festival celebrates LGBT storytelling in the media
A festival celebrating LGBT people within Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities is set to take place in Media City.
BBC’s first lead transgender star feels her ‘moment has come’ in comedy to be filmed in Manchester
Manchester will play host to a ground-breaking sitcom as the BBC has commissioned its first ever comedy to feature a transgender actress as its lead.
Manchester burlesque stars slam Daily Mail for ‘ridiculing’ plus-size dancers and song for dead daughter
The 26-year-old was looking forward to an article about her singing in a tribute to her three-year-old daughter Summer, who tragically died of bronchial pneumonia in February.
Two weeks in North Korea, Chernobyl or Afghanistan? The alternative holiday destinations of a Wigan travel company
Lupine Travel were contacted by the North Korean government