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Sleuth exclusive: interview with AC Milan

Our intrepid counter-culture journo, winner of the Foolitzer Prize for the last five years running, meets footy giants AC Milan

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Sleuth 12/03/10
Mark Owen, Gary Neville, David Beckham, Marshal Tito, Sir Richard Leese and Alice: the truth at last
 
Local newspaper gets sexy
Wigan Observer appeals to the baser instincts in the fight against circulation decline
 
Sleuth 05/03/2010
Elvis everywhere, Canned hookers, David Beckham mania, Norman Musa is the fastest chef in the land and Stephen...
 
Sleuth 26/02/2010
Frying pan love, Gordo's McDonalds shame, Sleuth's apologies and Black Lace speak out
Sleuth 19/02/2010
Elano steals chef, Manchester bishops discover mobile devices and let's boycott Metrolink
 
Sleuth 12/02/2010
Owen Hargreaves' special menu, police and the Fantasy Bar, pie outrage
 
Sleuth 05/02/2010
Wayne Rooney to be knighted, Manc Sinatra, video etiquette, lie of the week and head of the World Manchester E...
 
Sleuth 29/01/2010
Goths in the Church, Nancy Dell’Olio goes red, The BBC's lack of research, and taking a bike on the chin
The long video of hope: 'Britain's ...
'Britain's got talent': These people are deluded (or maybe they love queuing)
 
Sleuth 22/01/2010: a special music ...
Sleuth finds out about Manchestoh, the Haciendoh and the futoh
 
Sleuth 15/01/2010
Sleuth's honest Restaurateur of the Year Award 2010 (already) and amazing gizmo on the trams
 
Sleuth 08/01/2010
Two new restaurants, a new jazz club and the thought of the week from Mancini and Ferguson plus lies to tell t...
Sleuth 18/12/2009
Sleuth wakes up a strange bed. Where's the alka-seltzer?
 
Sleuth 11/12/09
Paradise Factory to re-open, Museum bricking it and the best letter of the week
 
Sleuth special: Crazy story of the ...
Redheads win free travel in Wigan – you can go to Skem for free if you’re a ginger
 
Sleuth 04/12/2009
Replacement for B of the Bang, travel Saville intercity, Band on the Wall hole truth and Mick Hucknall goes fi...
Sleuth 27/11/2009
The most inappropriate sign of the week and other pictures in an illustrated Sleuth.
 
Confidential’s parking influence: l...
NCP responds to Confidential’s criticism with a bespoke press release
 
Sleuth 20/11/2009
Saville’s new Christmas card design, flying Rolls Royces, Elbow head into Manchester Art Gallery, crazy Home O...
 
It’s ok car-drivers, you can all co...
Sleuth writes a short article in support of the City Council as big holes disappear from the city....and the t...
Sleuth 13/11/2009
Swinging Santa, new public toilets for Manchester, anonymous David Beckham, Buddhist council leaders and pagan...
 
Sleuth 06/11/2009
Dizzy birds, fowl stories, haunted tunnels, filthy paninis and how to get there in under 11 seconds for men, u...
 
Sleuth 30/10/2009
Rio Ferdinand becomes psychic medium, flagging down a Hummer for a lap-dance and camels invade city
 
Sleuth 23/10/2009
Tom Jones sings for his supper, Panacea re-opens in Alderley Edge, Gordo becomes an oil painting and Emergency...
Sleuth 15/10/09
Peter Hook, Ricky Hatton, Dave Haslam, Chris Johnson, Andrew Nutter, Elbow and other stories
 
Sleuth 09/10/2009
Conservative shenanigans, MEN confusion, Press Club farewell and Gordo evolves
 
Sleuth 02/10/2009
Cheeky fag gets elbowed, Stuart Maconie baloney, clockwork in the pub, Band on the Wall carpet burns, blue hou...
 
Gordo’s Bits and Bobs
In which the greatest living Englishman eats at Obsidian, munches crabs, gets Turkish delight, drinks with Tor...
Sleuth 17/09/2009
Confidential begins media revolution, strange goings on at MEN, and National Factory Museum for Manchester
 
Sleuth 11/09/2009
Manchester: Popular Culture Capital City plus Good Food Guide debate, the cowardice of Waterstones, unlikely f...
 
Sleuth 04/09/2009
Director forced out of Royal Exchange, Biggest Tesco in the world proposed, IWMN changes history...oh, and dre...
 
Sleuth 28/08/2009
Michael Portillo loses out to Muhammed Ali, tanks a lot, knife crime and inflatables plus dancing with Pride
Gordo’s Bits and Bobs
Sleuth's away: Gordo spots a terrorist at the Circle Club and shares the week's gastronomic gossip
 
Sleuth 07/08/09
Editor has extreme swine-flu, Guardian should come home, Gordo arrested by Chief Constable, Will Alsop has an ...
 
McManiac - THE VIDEO
Lynda Moyo goes in search of investment at McDonald's and comes out covered in potatoes
 
Sleuth 31/07/2009
FYI, the official swine-flu advice plus cruel treatment of wheelchair users, Bloxham's prediction, and frighte...
Sleuth 24/07/2009
Carlos Acosta signs for Manchester City, Roger Stephenson wins a Jag, Hazel Blears is happy, Florence and the ...
 
Sleuth 17/07/2009
Rufus Wainwright should be arrested, hack needs re-treads, Royal Exchange turns into amusement arcade and the ...
 
Sleuth: 26/06/2009 – a special repo...
A massively expensive fence to be built in the Gay Village...er...why?
 
Sleuth 19/06/2009
Old Trafford football ground in change of use shock, Trafford Council promotes traditional (nineteenth century...
Carol Ann Duffy and Confidential’s ...
Here’s Carol Ann Duffy’s first verse as Poet Laureate: Ronald McRhyme, our office versifier, takes her on
 
Sleuth 12/06/2009
Safety pin terror hits city, media madness, pram rage and the only good thing about Nick Griffin’s election
 
Sleuth 05/06/2009
Batman and the Police Chief, Prestwich turns away from drink and Flexity Swift identified but shush would you
 
Sleuth 29/05/2009
Metrolink revelations, city centre living and a man makes a right male hen of himself
Sleuth 22/05/2009
Ronaldo in leg-over shock, Usain Bolt loves himself in Manchester, Philip Glass reveals his formula for relati...
 
Sleuth 15/05/2009
Danny Boyle to direct new movie in Bury? Plus Manchester is rubbish for dating – allegedly- and Gorton rising.
 
Sleuth 08/05/2009
Monsters at the Quays, the complete swine flu diagnosis, signs of the past-times, Red Bull and dancing girls, ...
 
Sleuth 01/05/2009
Police unmasked, goodbye to Mr Live Arts, Confidential sponsors FC United, new footy ground in East Manchester...
Sleuth 24/04/2009
The very future of Bolton threatened, toilet taxis and the best bars and clubs in Manchester
 
Sleuth 17/04/2009
Tesco goes completely mad, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Satanic origins, Manchester International Festival on its h...
 
Sleuth 03/04/2009
Karney capers, Civic Society cracking up, Bez and singing Blue Moon
 
The Silence of the Mutts
Sleuth finds himself being mimed at by dogs
Sleuth 27/03/2009
Bigger than Beetham, new tower rises in Manchester, plus the perma-puddle and Rabbit seen on Fountain Street r...
 
Sleuth 20/03/09
Manchester overturns smoking ban, Guy Garvey serenades the city, Red Noses can kill, and fights in Altrincham ...
 
Sleuth 13/03/2009
Library Theatre set to leave the city, MUTV plays Pallister’s organ, the Queen goes dancing
 
Sleuth 06/03/2009
Noisy birds keep residents awake during city centre love making and city to get a new theatre?
Sleuth 27/02/2009
First amongst equals with Congestion Charge, United improve on prawn sandwiches, Corrie closed off, taking fli...
 
Binchester: the I-Spy selection
Sleuth's guide to Manchester's bin-life
 
Sleuth 20/02/2009
Sheep to graze Piccadilly Gardens, Towering arrogance, Ryanair mobile efficiency and the Hacienda graffiti att...
 
Sleuth 13/02/2009
Jacobson nails it, the New Union is plastic, Chorlton is childish, Heatherwick gets it wrong again and things ...
Shotgun prepared squirrel, framed o...
As the new Surrealism Show opens, Confidential announces the special Surrealist Menu the Gallery is serving up
 
Sleuth 6/2/2009
John Terry moves to Warrington - perhaps. Plus philosophy in the pub and MMU is a laughing stock and proud of ...
 
Sleuth 30/01/2009
Freddie Flintoff's match worn underpants, Rio in Rio-land, Happy Magazines and number-crunching on Canal Stre...
 
Sleuth: 23/01/2009
Antony Gormley agrees with Confidential, Band on Wall goes on and on, the grubby world of beer tickers, and Jo...
Sleuth 16/01/2009
Manchester Confidential crosses the globe with the Graham Stringer story, Bury becomes part of Bolton and crim...
 
Sleuth 09/01/2009
The sound of Cristiano Ronaldo, Jackson's Wharf appeal thrown out, some lovely poetry and Sleuth wins a battle...
 
Rants of the week 09/01/2009
Some of the best of the last seven days of the funny, the mad and the meaningful from our readers
 
The 2008 Manchester Quiz
Sleuth has looked back at the year and set you a quiz
A filing cabinet and 2.5 hours
Sleuth eats the best food story this year at the Angel
 
Sleuth 12/12/2008
Manchester Civic Society in crisis, evil Brummie Santa, mad bus drivers, want to become a judge?
 
Sleuth 05/12/2008
New film company with best name, MEN awards shock, Eskimo manners and paella plugs
 
Sleuth: 28/11/2008
‘B of the Bang’ replacement proposal and why men should never take women out to dinner: plus is this the best ...
Sleuth 21/11/2008
Confidential wins best media brand in North West award, ‘working class’ hotel opens and fights at the Lowry th...
 
Sleuth 14/11/2008
Barack Obama and buses, Alistair Campbell does God and the BNP out and about
 
Sleuth 07/11/2008
Election special, puritans in Bolton and the devil in Manchester
 
Sleuth 31/10/2008
Sir Alex Ferguson resigns over Brand incident (allegedly), new bar opens, a horrific ghost story and feeling t...
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