In 2019, I wrote an article for Northern Soul about the UK’s first LGBT retirement community which was due to be established in Whalley Range, South Manchester. The scheme, created in conjunction with the LGBT Foundation, was...
Read MoreContact has been an integral part of Manchester’s cultural scene since the 1970s. Then, in 2018, everything went dark as the theatre and arts venue embarked on a £6.75 million refurbishment project. Originally scheduled to...
Read MoreFor those of us in the late 1980s who didn’t subscribe to the domination of the Stock Aitken Waterman bland factory pop, Wendy James was a beacon. The lead singer of Transvision Vamp, she represented a call to arms with mega...
Read MoreLisbon has been on my hit list of places to go to for ages. What I was greeted with far surpassed my expectations. Arriving in late September, the weather was still roasting and the city was booming. What’s great about Lisbon is...
Read More“I think young people genuinely understand that if you buy things from a small business, you are helping yourselves and your generation to do better than letting all the money go into the hands of the pension funds with dinosaur...
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