Blink and there’s another new restaurant. Manchester’s freshly acquired status as the fastest growing economy in Britain is ...

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It’s one of Enid Blyton’s most-loved books. Now The Magic Faraway Tree has been made into a film, starring Andrew Garfield ...

This year sees Flapjack Press really grasping the nettle of popular poetry with an array of titles from such household names ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...

Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories that create social fabric and identity. And they can be found, woven delicately, into the ...

At the beginning of 2026, a crowd gathered at Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre to bring in the New Year. Led by Gluteus Maximus, a fully armoured workout coach, Cestrians clad in hats, scarves and gloves ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

As Angela Carter divined, and gleefully demonstrated in her celebrated short story collection The Bloody Chamber, fairy tales, though sugar-coated, typically conceal less palatable truths. The same ...

The Shawshank Redemption is a play about toxic masculinity. So far, so zeitgeist. But it is also a play about the best of manhood: friendship, loyalty, resilience and hope. It is a story that much of ...

The Shawshank Redemption is a play about toxic masculinity. So far, so zeitgeist. But it is also a ...