It’s December 2015 and West Yorkshire’s beautiful Calder Valley is celebrating Christmas. Then the rain comes. By Boxing Day, whole communities are submerged in some of the worst flooding in years. More than 4,000 businesses and...
Read More“You’re reviewing a classical music concert?” This was the main reaction whenever I mentioned I was seeing the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra open their 2017/18 season at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. I’ll admit that...
Read MoreIt was almost complete. We’d spent two art lessons perfecting our papier mâché Vesuvius with chicken wire and a few card houses to represent the ill-fated Pompeii. Our teacher proudly brought it into the centre of the class....
Read MoreI’ve learnt many things in this life, one of them being this: if you get an email from your editor asking if you’d like to join Julie Goodyear for some Corrie-related gardening, you say yes. So, in the interests of popular...
Read MoreLet me take you back a couple of years. I was a nervous new writer and had just received my first assignment for Northern Soul. The brief was to research and write a piece about the plight of a beautiful building in Manchester...
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