With one in three Brits addicted to online shopping retailers, Mancunian Matters were shocked to see that Manchester falls second among UK cities.

Mancunian vintage store, Junk Shop, is encouraging people to think more about how our purchases can affect the world that we live in, in aid of World Recycle Week.

Eye-catching urban art has been unveiled in Cadishead to commemorate a local butcher who embodied the spirt of the community.

For people whose idea of hell is aimlessly wandering round the Arndale Centre, a Manchester-based start-up might just be their saviour.

With the looming general election and prospect of devolution the city is ‘at a very important point in our history’ according to the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) chief executive.

Across the nation, 300 shop workers were assaulted everyday this year leading the Manchester-based Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) to publish a number of shocking studies this week to stress the dangers retail workers face every day.

A two-metre-high ‘scratch and sniff’ art installation created by Manchester Metropolitan University students will be unveiled tomorrow as part of the MCR Student Takeover event.

More than 15,000 undergraduates ditched their books for shopping bags as they flocked to the Trafford Centre’s record-breaking Student Lock-in yesterday.

Don’t expect any 300metre ‘all-in-one’ skyscrapers in Manchester anytime soon, says a Manchester futurist.

White Stuff opened up a poll for their upcoming store, which is set to open in August, to donate at least 1% of its annual profits to either the Greater Manchester Youth Network or Wood Street Mission, with the latter sealing 52% of votes.

A fashionable street in Chorlton became the first in the UK to trade entirely without cash for the day as a social experiment last weekend.