Author: Hayley-Jane Sims

What Pride means to me

Hurrah! The Manchester gay celebrations are almost upon us. I do love a bit of Gay Crimbo....

Manchester? Check. Lesbians? Check. Gangsters? Oh, go on then. Reading the blurb of this debut...

It’s been 15 years since an intriguing noise lulled soothingly out of my radio. It prompted me to...

Posted by Hayley-Jane Sims | Mar 28, 2016 | Taste

Ramsbottom certainly knows how to appeal to the masses: chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. The...

Posted by Hayley-Jane Sims | Mar 4, 2016 | Arts, Theatre

In 1859 the body of a man by the name of Harry Stokes washed up in the River Irwell. Upon...