Coronation Streets’ Julie Hesmondhalgh is premiering a new show that has been 10 years in the making at the Bolton Octagon theatre this week.
After struggling for over a year to find a place to play, a University of Salford sabbatical officer set up his own chess club to help fellow chess lovers find a community.
Whisper it, but there’s a buzz around Boundary Park. Oldham Athletic are on their way back. A year and a half after dropping out of the Football League, with talk of extinction, the club currently sit sixth in the National League and promotion is on every fan’s lips. It’s been eighteen months since Frank Rothwell […]
Salford Red Devils stadium is set for a £65 million boost as the council prepares to take full control after months of ‘painstaking’ discussions. Salford City Council already controls 50% of the site, which is also used by Sale Sharks, with private property company Peel owning the remaining share. This is a welcome boost for […]
This week Gary Neville explained why he picked the Stone Roses’ iconic 80’s anthem ‘This Is The One’ as The Reds walk-out song at Old Trafford when he became club captain in 2005. The song, he says, reflects the “true authentic spirit of the city of Manchester”.
Almost 20 years later, Manchester United, Adidas and The Stone Roses have come together to create a new line of casual and training wear based on the band’s first album cover and designed by their guitarist and diehard United fan John Squire.
Last Saturday evening, Quays News took a trip out the Sale Waterside Arts theatre to check out ‘Bi-Topia’, a semi-autobiographical story about a tumultuous journey of self-acceptance, with several opportunities to share a laugh along the way. Sam Danson, the only actor in this captivating one man show, provides us with 70 minutes of utter […]
Crippling and debilitating cramps, nausea, fainting, leg and back pain, brain fog, severe and heavy bleeding, chronic fatigue, chronic pelvic pain, pain during sex, loss of appetite, weight loss, hair loss, depression, anxiety and infertility. If you wince when reading that, it’s because you should: It’s uncomfortable. It’s also the reality for 1 in 10 […]
‘’The (United) board are the ones who’ve made stupid decisions, they’re the ones who’ve put players on stupidly high wages. They’re trying to right their mistakes by wronging the fans.’’ This is the reaction of 21-year-old, lifelong Manchester United fan, Dean Zulu, after the club’s decision to raise season ticket prices by 5 percent for […]
A “bonus scheme” to increase access to NHS dentistry for new patients falls short due to lack of funding, claims an industry expert . The newly piloted plan, to award dentists money for taking on new NHS patients, mirrors a similar trial run in Greater Manchester in June 2023, which aimed to increase new patient […]
The USA’s fastest growing sport is catching on here too. Pickleball, which originated on a badminton court with table tennis paddles in 1965, has graduated from a social activity into a competitive racket sport. When Pickleball England was formed in 2019, there were around 2,000 casual players in the UK. Now, there are over 6,000 […]