5 d. ago 'How do we replace innocence lost?': The desperate plea of a broken mother

“You took a child and twisted, violated and moulded her into your puppet for your own sick personal gain"

Politics

8 d. ago 'I was in awe' Man City signings can bring wow factor back for rivals

Manchester City have lost the wow factor with opponents after a disappointing season but the Club World Cup is a chance to restore that

Politics

8 d. ago 'Hotspur Press was part of the beautiful mess of our city centre

That combination of old and new in Manchester architecture is important. Hotspur Press looks set to be lost and therefore the city has lost something that added context to that part of the city, says Jonathan Schofield.

Politics

1 week ago Desperate mum in battle to keep her son safe after suffering unbearable tragedy

A desperate mother who has suffered unbearable tragedy is now in a battle to keep her son safe amid the chaos of mental health services and failures

Events

2 w. ago Pep Guardiola knows he cannot get major Man City call wrong again

Manchester City lost their form and fitness last season but also saw their captain disappear in the middle of the campaign

Politics

2 w. ago How lockdown revealed the 'silent beauty' of a deserted Manchester

'It can be easy for the beauty and history of Manchester to get lost amid the busyness of day-to-day life'

Politics

2 w. ago I lost 7st but online trolls said my 'Mounjaro face' made me look 15 years older

Ashley Nickson, 35, tipped the scales at 17st 10lbs and a size 18 to 20 after piling on the weight after giving birth to her two children

Politics

3 w. ago The kidnappers who 'lost their nerve' and didn't count on hero bystander's quick thinking

A 'targeted attack' saw Sanwar Fiaz snatched from the street, but he was saved by a quick-thinking bystander

Events

3 w. ago Kidnappers snatched man off the street but didn't bank on a woman passing by

A 'targeted attack' saw Sanwar Fiaz snatched from the street, but he was saved by a quick-thinking bystander

Events

3 w. ago 'Eerie portal to a lost world' that lies beneath Greater Manchester estate

The Victorian era tunnel has been abandoned for more than 60 years

Politics

3 w. ago Manchester's lost nightclubs we loved despite the sticky floors and sweaty walls

Remembering those chaotic nights when tomorrow's pounding head and queasy guts were an accepted part of a big night out

Politics

3 w. ago Hollyoaks star says she 'lost it' after being axed before 30th anniversary as she makes major move

The 47-year-old actress left the Channel 4 soap in 2024 after playing the role of Cindy Cunningham for 28 years

Politics

3 w. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

Events

4 w. ago Man City are finally getting back what Pep Guardiola thought was lost

Manchester City lost something important last season but Pep Guardiola has reason to hope that it is coming back

Politics

4 w. ago HMRC has lost £47m after hack breaches the accounts of 100,000 UK taxpayer

Two senior civil servants at HMRC told the Treasury Committee that 100,000 people are being contacted after the breach

Economics