“‘I think you’ll be very moved,” said the press officer.

Sheeran had elected to perform in the open-sided circus top that is the New Music stage because he’s already played Radio 1’s ...

Dear England is at Lowry in Salford until June 29, 2025. For more information, click here .

There was chanting on Mersey waterfront. Chanting and stomping of feet.

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

Believe it or not but naked clog fighting was a mysterious and illegal sport that existed in Northern mining communities for hundreds of years. Now Gallery Oldham is staging an exhibition examining ...

Outcast is a tale for our times. The events depicted in my book might have taken place a quarter of a century ago but this true story of a maverick Yorkshire businessman who fights back against the ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...

This is the only time I will spend in this room This is the only time I will speak to this person ...

For a venue synonymous with The Beatles and well-used to packing out its basement, 2020 has seen its acts playing to an eerily empty room. But The Cavern Club in Liverpool is still going strong. As an ...

How do you go about reviving plays written several centuries before Shakespeare was born? Many medieval towns had sequences of ‘mystery plays’ based on stories in the Bible. Of the few to survive, ...

On a temporarily blockaded King Street West in Salford, just a mere stride across the river near Blackfriars, is the the red brick building that houses Ocean’s Apart’s gallery and artists’ studios. OA ...