
Tesco (and Cricket) v Those Who Are Alarmed by Superstores
D-Day in Stretford: Thursday 11 March, 6.30pm. Legal bribes and NIMBYS

Metrolink scores 6/10 (and that's according to the bosses)
Jonathan Schofield interviews Philip Purdy of Metrolink and Andy Morris of Stagecoach Light Rail and gets some interesting answers


Win tickets to the launch of the Ballroom at the Black Dog Blackdog Ballroom's private room
We're giving away tickets to a party in a secret room in the Northern Quarter with Peter Hook on the turntable
Jennifer Choi on the hot closing news from the curry frontline as Shimla Pinks ascends to the great naan bread...
The Christie hospital is trying to break the world record for the world's longest hug – any volunteers?
Lauren Murphy on the day that will make us PROUD, yes in capitals, PROUD. Skitting aside we like this idea lots
Jonathan Schofield interviews Philip Purdy of Metrolink and Andy Morris of Stagecoach Light Rail and gets some...
The Guardian Media Group chucks away the Manchester Evening News: rumour that MEN will move to Hollinwood
Jonathan Schofield interviews the Council Leader about poverty, transport, working with the Conservatives, per...
The first chapter of our New Manchester Dictionary contains useful vocabulary for travelling by tram
Charlene McAuley finds out how the villagers are reacting to news that another big pub chain is on its way
Jonathan Schofield talks to Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister in charge of the ID card scheme being triall...
Inundated with questions we try to get to the bottom of the poor service on the flagship transport system
Meg Hillier, MP, wants to talk to us about ID Cards after seeing our article on the subject this week: got any...
Robert Cutforth volunteers for an ID card and is told “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to wor...
Rumours on the How-Do website suggest MEN is to be sold: is the Guardian Media Group ditching Manchester?
Helen Clifton investigates whether Derek Adams, landlord of the Ace of Diamonds in Newton Heath, is right to c...
Kevin Gopal, Editor of the Big Issue of the North, attended a Manchester meeting ahead of Copenhagen
Planet Code, the techies behind Manchester Confidential.com have developed Manchestermarkets.com - folks it's...
Confidential explains the changes coming to our sites with memberships, articles, rants and the rest
Are you an experienced freelance writer? Have you a nose for breaking stories in Manchester and the North West?
Jonathan Schofield finds Question Time disturbing, uncomfortable and totally unbalanced - but in the end worth...
Ann Marie Hall gets to the children’s author re-inventing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before his Manc...
New park and ride scheme from Sale, better bus travel, and Oldham and Rochdale swap trains for trams
Charlene McAuley takes the temperature in south Manchester to see if the Blues have any electoral hope
Jonathan Schofield looks at the closure of the morning Metro’s Manchester office and what it means for the cit...
The shadow home secretary faces criticism over his comparison of Moss Side to fictional US drama The Wire
Emma Bovary heads to the Temple of Convenience to meet the writer of Single Mother on the Verge: a Manchester ...
Confidential wonders whether having a Gay and Lesbian section isn’t old-fashioned for a general magazine?
Are car park charges harming the precinct? Helen Clifton on the latest trial to hit the independent traders
Sleuth wonders whether motorist at City Gate is a freedom fighter, an artist or just hates people in wheelchai...
Gordo gets an unwelcome wake-up call, and so does his buddy: are we in the midst of a scam epidemic?
Give communities power over policing, say no to ID cards and lose some police officers: Jonathan Schofield put...
Give communities power over policing, say no to ID cards and lose some police officers: Jonathan Schofield put...

















































