In this month’s sports column, Margaret Brecknell takes a look back at some of the sporting highlights from September in the North including notable performances from two sports stars who have been featured here in previous...
Read MoreFor three seasons of Line of Duty, Craig Parkinson played one of the most obnoxious characters on British telly. Snide, obsequious and ruthless, Matthew ‘Dot’ Cottan was a bent copper, embedded in a team dedicated to...
Read MoreLast year was a harrowing time for Manchester. I spent the weeks following the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena in Kenya where I caught glimpses of the international news coverage and was moved to tears by the city’s...
Read MoreLast year, when David Agnew opted to move the English Folk Expo and its public-facing concerts to central Manchester after several years based around Bury Met, there was a certain amount of discreet breath-holding as to whether...
Read MoreU2 rolled into town as part of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour and turned Manchester Arena into the smallest large venue around. As Bono explained in his introduction, the band first performed in the city back in 1980, at...
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