If you’ve ever walked down a street in Manchester and been smiled and waved at by a fundraiser in a dark blue jacket, ...

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Business rates for pubs, social clubs, and live music venues are being cut by 20%. How will that affect the PM's beloved boozers? Three days into his premiership, newly incumbent PM Andy Burnham was ...

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An investigation has been launched into claims that Greater Manchester Police accidentally leaked “a dataset of personal information” - including the names and details of sexual assault victims. The ...

Death threats, gangsters, and smashed up Ferraris: forget Manchesterism — this is Oldhamism Oldham is in trouble. Take the last few years as an example. Since 2001 and as recently as January the ...

Dear readers — welcome to the most important Monday briefing The Mill has ever written, in which we answer the somehow as-yet-unanswered question: how tall really was Mr Manchester? This comes after ...

Is the end nigh for the Market Street Preachers? Dear readers — this is a severe alert issued by The Manchester Mill. We’re back with another Monday briefing with everything you could ever possibly ...

Dear readers — forgive us, but we’re sending you this email from Leeds of all places, where we’ve gone to meet our colleagues over at our newest sister paper, The Exchange! By the time you’re reading ...