Manchester roads made all the wrong headlines last month when flooding caused a giant sinkhole to appear in the middle of Mancunian way – and then became an unlikely tourist attraction. Not surprisingly, this caused chaos...
Read MoreMost Northern traditions involve beer. Beer was once a staple food of the North, the idea of it got us through a morning at work, it measured out the time we had for dinner – four pints meant you got an hour, two pints meant you...
Read MoreYou can see them crouching beside the tables, cameras out, tape measures at the ready: show groupies. A selective and determined small group of people, like myself, who coo and ooh at the size of someone’s plums. The Northern...
Read MoreIt’s typical Manchester weather, the kind that sneaks through open doorways and under large awnings and marquees. I’m huddled in an audience that comprises umbrellas on the flanks and drenched, steaming people in the centre. An...
Read MoreYou don’t expect saying “Hello” to cause so much trouble on Yorkshire Day but this year it did. Picture a burbling river and a set of stepping stones arcing from one bank to another before a weir. Myself and my...
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