The Deaf Institute, Band on the Wall, The Warehouse Project and Hoya Hoya are just some of the venues hoping to field a winning team for Manchester charity Lifeline on July 13.

CCTV footage captures Alan Croydon 25, of Norland Walk, Manchester, Aaron Buckley 26, of Coronation Street, Openshaw, and a third man embroiled in a heated row with the victim on the evening of December 6, 2013 around 12.30am

The special ‘Fund Razor’, at Twenty Twenty Two, has been organized by Beards Against the Cancer, a group set up by Brooks after he was diagnosed with bowel cancer last year

Grammy-nominated Manchester illustrator Stanley Chow has his exhibition ‘The Takeaway’ at Manchester’s Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art

The project of iconic gay series Queer as Folk writer Russell T Davies, Cucumber will be an eight-part drama aired on Channel 4 next year, to run alongside a sister show Banana on E4.

The Music Venue Trust’s petition, founded earlier this year, calls for an urgent review of current noise abatement legislation affecting many city centre bars and live music haunts across the country.

Blair Dunlop has returned two years on with his edgier album House of Jacks.

Manchester’s latest cocktail bar is has laid down the gauntlet to its Northern Quarter rivals by proclaiming it will be the ‘best bar in the world’.

Night and Day Café has been ordered to attend a compulsory review meeting on June 9 to discuss whether they have been breaching the terms of their noise abatement notice and venue licence.

Manchester is the City of Sing and is offering young songwriters the chance to flaunt their abilities thanks to Sing City workshops at the iconic Band on the Wall venue.

Stephen Hunt, from Philips Park Fire Station, tragically died while tackling the blaze that started at Paul’s Hair World on Oldham Street in Manchester.