It 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...
Read More“I’ve been dossing around. Well, I’ve been dossing for a bit but not most of the day.” So laughs Northern powerhouse Lisa Stansfield as the sun beats down on Manchester city centre. Anyone who was around in the late 80s and 90s...
Read MoreAs the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death draws closer (April 23 in case you didn’t know), every theatre in the land is doing its utmost to find a different angle with which to pay homage to the great wordsmith....
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