Andy Burnham was mayor of Greater Manchester for nine years. His time there came to define his identity — and his pitch to lead Britain.

Andy Burnham’s Manchester has recorded the biggest drop in living standards of any major city in England, new analysis shows.

The debate over the location of England's second city is almost as old as the country itself. York, the home of the second most-important role in the Church of England, claimed the title in the Roman and early medieval periods; both Norwich and Bristol had ...

More retail outlets and a new fair add a modern layer on the city’s historic connections to the industry. By Melanie Abrams Reporting from Manchester, England Manchester is renowned as the world’s first industrialized city — a hub of the Industrial ...

When the BBC opened the doors to its new home in Salford in 2011, it set off a new wave of enterprise in Greater Manchester. A KPMG report found that in the ten years following the broadcaster’s arrival in the regenerated Manchester Docks, the number of ...

Manchester is on track to become the fourth "tallest city" in Europe by 2030, a report has found. The city currently ranks seventh in the table which is determined by the number of buildings in a city that are taller than 50m (164ft), 100m (328ft), and ...

For its 20th anniversary, Apple Trafford Center is to close down and reopen in a larger and more prominent part of the same mall. Following a similar October 2024 move for Apple Belfast in Northern Ireland, Apple has confirmed that it is relocating and ...