So a planning application is being submitted to transform the Corn Exchange into the “Carnaby Street of the North”…
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The big event this week is the centenary on June 23 of Alan Turing…
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It’s hard to know what to feel after hearing the news that the infamous David Smith has died.
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Queen Elizabeth II is not the first monarch to visit Manchester, nor is the Town Hall Mural accurate in citing Philippa of Hainault…
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All of us at New Manchester Walks towers (the back room at the Portico Library, actually) are very much looking forward to the opening of the new National Football Museum…
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Within three years Granada/ITV will vacate its 50-year home at the edge of Castlefield. The company’s flagship programme, Coronation Street, will soon be filmed from a new purpose-built site in Trafford Park. So what will happen to the Coronation Street set…?
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Sadly, Metrolink has made the wrong turn, confirming the decision to run the next line along Corporation Street and Cross Street…
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A large section of central Manchester is now off-limits to the public with the arrival of the Conservative Party conference…
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