36 h. ago Five events and festivals in Greater Manchester this weekend you won’t want to miss out on

Here's some free and ticketed events you can enjoy this weekend

Politics

48 h. ago Manchester Classical 2025: festival to celebrate city's classical music this weekend

The festival will be opened with a concert featuring Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood

Culture

67 h. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025 TV guide with all the performances to watch from your sofa

Glastonbury Festival is back and the BBC will once again be offering live streams of all the hottest performances, allowing viewers at home to see their favourite acts from the five main stages

Culture

3 d. ago Glastonbury fans say festival is 'robbing them' after seeing price of pints this year

Some people have been put off by the cost of a pint this year, branding it 'absolutely disgusting'

Events

3 d. ago Glastonbury Festival 2025 opens its doors as revellers begin to pour in

Around 200,000 music lovers are set to gather at the UK's biggest festival

Politics

8 d. ago Five huge events and festivals taking place in Greater Manchester this weekend

There's food festivals, Pride events and Hungarian fruit brandy all up for partaking in this weekend

Politics

8 d. ago AD FEATURE: A celebration of food, drink, and music is coming to Tatton Park this summer

Experience the taste of the Loire Valley without leaving Manchester as Vins de Loire takes part in the Foodies Festival

Culture

8 d. ago Double trouble: can James Gunn really make two separate Batman movies work?

It’s suggested that the Gunn-produced The Brave and the Bold will be set within the DCU while Matt Reeves’s sequel to The Batman will exist as a DC Elseworlds storyThere was a time when having two Batmen in your cinematic universe would have felt like a clerical error. But in James Gunn’s brave and bold new DCU, having several Bruce Waynes is increasingly looking less like an irritating glitch and more like a deliberate choice.Gunn has been clear for some time that he sees no issue with two Caped Crusaders striding into multiplexes at the same time. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is down to the fact that Matt Reeves’s The Batman – an insular, noirish, Kurt Cobain-obsessed but relatively real-world take on the Dark Knight – proved pretty popular with audiences just prior to Gunn being handed the keys to the DC kingdom. But who am I to quibble? Sure, this might be a universe destined to feature cavalcades of superheroes who exist in a magical world of shimmering cosplay, but if...

Economics

8 d. ago ‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation“I can’t believe that somehow I was able to make it all the way to the age of 55 without having read that book!” says American singer-songwriter John Grant. “It’s a transformative book. I was just completely blown away by it; I’ve been trying to get everybody that I’ve ever met to read it.”The book Grant is telling me about, enthusing from his sofa at home in Reykjavík, is Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, published in 1964, turned into 2009’s most stylish film by first-time director Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, and now about to be a ballet, premiering at this year’s Manchester international festival. Grant, the former Czars frontman and now an acclaimed solo artist (with albums including Pale Green Ghosts and his latest, The Art of...

Politics

9 d. ago Scottish Universities Ranked: 11 universities in Scotland ranked best to worst in new 2025 league tables

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2025 has been published - and 11 Scottish universities feature on the list.

Politics

9 d. ago Imperial College London ranked second best university in world as Oxford and Cambridge lose ground

In total, four British universities featured in the international top 10

Politics

1 week ago 11 Scottish universities ranked best to worst in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2025 has been published - and 11 Scottish universities feature on the list.

Politics

1 week ago Scottish Universities Ranked: 11 unis in Scotland ranked from best to worst according to 2025 league tables

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2025 has been published - and 11 Scottish universities feature on the list.

Politics

1 week ago Amazon Prime Day 2025 dates confirmed as mega shopping event returns with huge deals

A range of deals will be available on everything from beauty gadgets and trainers to mobile phones and laptops

Economics

1 week ago Things to know about the retrial of Karen Read in the killing of her police officer boyfriend

The jury is set to return for its third full day of testimony in the second murder trial of Karen Read, who is charged with killing her Boston police officer boyfriend

Events

1 week ago Amazon Prime Day dates revealed as popular event returns with epic deals

With just weeks to go until Amazon Prime Days, here's everything you need to know about the shopping event

Politics

1 week ago Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African CongressOn the facade of the building that once housed Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester sits a plaque commemorating a turning point in the push for African independence. The fifth Pan-African Congress in October 1945 was attended by future global leaders as well as activists and scholars from across Africa and its diaspora. But despite the event’s international importance, it has been largely overlooked by mainstream British history. Now a biting new play is set to remedy this.“I think a lot of Mancunians don’t know it happened,” says playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni, who lectures in the same building, now part of Manchester Metropolitan University. “But it’s like: you’re part of such a phenomenal moment in history.” Eighty years later, her dramatisation of the event, Liberation, is about to receive its worl...

Politics

1 week ago Trump claims ‘big stuff is happening’ as he leaves G7 summit early to return to Washington

Donald Trump has left the G7 summit a day early to return to Washington to hold a National Security Council meeting as the Israel-Iran conflict escalates.

Politics

1 week ago Kate Middleton steals the show as she returns to Garter Day after cancer treatment

The Princess of Wales joined the rest of the Royal Family and watched the annual Garter Day procession at Windsor Castle after being forced to miss the event last year due to her cancer treatment

Politics

1 week ago Eric Cantona and Ella Toone help meld football and art for Manchester festival

The two players are among those collaborating with artists to create the Football City, Art United exhibition“Everybody needs his own ritual or way of preparing,” says the former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids. “Those minutes that you’re in the tunnel is where we’re going to start.”Davids is talking about a piece he has worked on alongside the artist Paul Pfeiffer in which the pair recreate the tension of the tunnel before a big game. Continue reading...

Sport