‘A great cause’: Run in the Dark at Salford Quays to fast track a cure for paralysis
Manchester will again play host to hundreds of runners helping to fast-track a cure for paralysis by taking part in the Life Style Sports Run in the Dark.
GIVEAWAY: Walk the famous cobbles with a pair of Coronation Street tour tickets
After attracting over half a million visitors since its opening in 2014, the widely popular Coronation Street tour is sadly set to close its doors to the public at the end of this year.
Hundreds of jobs to go as Aviva announced plans for Manchester closures
Workers at the firm’s Salford Quays base have been told the site will be vacated by December 2016 while the bases in Stretford and Albert Square will be relocated to Norwich, giving some employees the chance to relocate.
Victoria Wood reveals how comedy, trams and chips made ‘love letter to the north’
Starring Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball in a new film adaptation of her stage play, That Day We Sang, Salford Quays this week hosted the premiere of Victoria Wood’s new 1960s-themed television musical.
Wheelchair basketball team complete ‘Run in the Dark’ for spinal injury awareness
Thousands of fundraisers completed a 100km ‘Run in the Dark’ last night at MediaCity to race vital funds for charity, including Bolton Bulls wheelchair basketball club and former Boyzone member and Coronation Street star Keith Duffy.
Teepees on the banks of the River Irwell? Play explores life of Native Americans who called Salford home
A play written by ex-Corrie actor Chris Hoyle will reveal what happened as we are taken back to the nineteenth-century Wild West – in the North West
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.
2.8 Hours Later: How to stagger through a zombie apocalypse in Manchester and limp to tell the tale
Based in Trafford Park, groups of eight survivors are tasked with navigating through various terminal points spread across the industrial estate
VIDEO: Down Salford’s memory lane – and how the city took on Manchester
A Salford author is taking a visual journey through the city’s history in his latest book – and shedding light on the long-standing competition with neighbour Manchester.
He’s not taking the Mickey! Ex-Shameless star Ciarán Griffiths in trio of gruelling charity events
Ciarán, 31, best known for playing Mickey Maguire in Shameless and Gary Best in The Bill and Dylan Hodge in Waterloo Road, will be setting off alongside five Peugeot employees for the 26-mile slog
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival sails back into Salford Quays as sport fires up Olympic slot chances
Salford Quays are set for an invasion from the Far East this Sunday in the annual Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.