Manchester hotel will transform into ‘tiki heaven’ as rum festival returns

Martin Lewis has revealed if he will be running for Mayor of Greater Manchester in the future. The debate about his potential candidacy comes as other famous names have suggested they might be interested in taking up the job, including former Manchester United captain and football coach Gary Neville.

A huge free Christian festival is heading to Wythenshawe Park next month. The biggest free event of the summer in the north west, Festival Manchester will happen from July 1 to July 3, with a wide range of activities and even a ‘huge beach’ being made in the park.

The West End and Broadway hit musical, Rock of Ages, is returning to Manchester next year and fans will need to be quick if they want to bag tickets.

Nothing says summer like cocktails in the sunshine, and this week Moxy Manchester will be hosting a free cocktail evening with local rum brand, Diablesse Rum. Taking place on Thursday, June 23, guests will have the chance to learn more about the origins of the drink, while sipping on specially curated cocktails.

Harry Styles had a surprise for someone very special to him, as he performed the first of two huge homecoming gigs in Manchester, U.K. on Wednesday.

A stunned holidaymaker was hit with a £870 bill after returning to Manchester Airport from his honeymoon in Egypt.

A family from Devon have had to relocate to Manchester in order to treat their nine-year-old boy's bone cancer. Jack Middleton, a young motocross star, is being cared for in the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

Streets around seven schools in Stockport are to be closed at picking up and dropping off time as part of a new trial. Starting this week streets around a select group of primary schools will be shut to through traffic and parents or guardians parking to drop off or collect their kids in the car.

So Parklife is most certainly back. Yes, it was back last year too, but this time it feels different. There are no vaccine passports, no LFTs, no masks, no elbow bumping. It all feels like it was a nightmare and that ‘new normal’ that people were talking about has been truly abandoned, in favour of the old normal, which everyone liked fine.

It's only one more day until Parklife kicks off and festival-goers are likely packing all their stuff for the weekend.

The soon-to-be launched Manchester hotel, Treehouse Manchester, has unveiled an all-star line-up to curate two brand new restaurants and a rooftop bar for the city. Mary-Ellen McTague, Justin Crawford and Luke Cowdrey - aka the Unabombers - and Sam Grainger of Liverpool hit Belzan will be the creative forces behind the new project, set to open in early 2023.

The property developer owned by Betfred founder Fred Done is to build a 40-storey tower at the St Michael's scheme in Manchester city centre.

York this afternoon by fans before his show tonight, Tuesday, June 7, with Jeff Black at York Barbican - but fans were left disappointed when the star refused to sign his autograph. Depp was seen stood outside of the Hilton in York City Centre. Read more: Johnny Depp splashes £50,000 on a curry in Birmingham and leaves staff 'large tip' Devastated fan, @Curtis1192 wrote on Twitter: "I cannot believe Johnny Depp didn’t sign for us outside of the Hilton in York there was only 5 people too.

Nearly 36,000 older people in Greater Manchester are missing out on more than £1,700 a year in pension top-up payments, new figures reveal. Around £70 million is unclaimed across the city-region, with pensioners now being urged to check if they are eligible for the payment which 'could make all the difference'.

Nothing says British summer time quite like a seaside holiday, and with hundreds of miles of coastline we’re spoilt for choice. Yet you don’t have to travel far from Manchester to stay at one of the best seaside hotels in the UK.

There's a bold new addition to the burgeoning Manchester skyline in the form of the new "Jenga-like" Leonardo Hotel. The hotel, styled like white building blocks at a prime site on Great Ancoats Street, has long been catching the eye of motorists using the main arterial route through the city.

We're kicking off this week's gig round-up with some exciting news! Ahead of Neighbourhood Weekender 2022, the festival organiser has announced that its Neighbourhood Festival is coming back to Manchester this October.

For the third year running, Hotel Indigo Manchester - Victoria Station has picked up TripAdvisor's 2022 Travelers’ Choice Award. The award was bestowed on the city centre hotel earlier this month for ‘demonstrating a commitment to excellence’.

This weekend, Manchester will become one of the first cities in Britain to host a ‘Friendship Festival, welcoming arrivals from Hong Kong, who have moved to the UK as part of the government's British National Overseas (BNO) visa scheme. The festival will take place at Audacious Church on Trinity Way on the edge of the city centre on Saturday, May 28 and is expected to attract up to 1,000 visitors from across the community.