Working towards Arts Award Explore, the children will be encouraged by a partnership involving Tameside Cultural Services, the BBC, a forum of the borough’s music teachers and Stone Soup, a Tameside Creative Industries organisation

Mothers Against Violence was set up in 1996 by Pasty Mckie after her ‘caring and vibrant’ son Dorrie was shot and killed in Hulme

First Chop Brewing Arm, a small, independent brewery based in Salford is fast becoming well known for its philosophy of using the finest ingredients and keeping things simple. MM went to take a look at what makes it so popular.

Soup Kitchen played host to the Northern début of Fis

Pop queens The Saturdays have just announced a new single ahead of their Greatest Hits tour and record

3 in a Bed will premiere at Manchester’s AMC cinema on Monday June, 30

Robert, 26, from Macclesfield, was assaulted near the Parklife Weekender Festival‘s main stage around 9.15pm on Saturday, June 7

Robert Hart, 26, from Macclesfield, suffered fatal head injuries after being attacked as he danced with his girlfriend, Gemma Parry, at the Parklife Weekender in Heaton Park on June 7

Parklife organisers have offered a £20,000 reward for information that helps police crush the ‘shield of silence’ surrounding the killer of tragic reveller Robert Hart.

Whether you live in Manchester, are visiting from nearby or are looking for a few days away in a city, it has everything someone could ask for.

The band have been busy recording and mixing their first studio album in 20 years with original vocalist Stephen Holt.