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The city will finally light up for the festive season. While Christmas is set to look very different in Manchester this year, it’s also been delayed, too – with the current lockdown restrictions forcing Manc...
High street stores will be able to extend their opening hours in the run-up to Christmas. Primark recently announced that some of their stores will open for 24 hours post-lockdown, and it looks like other shops will soo...
A fantastic move that others should follow. Giving retail workers a well-deserved break after an incredibly testing year, a number of major high street stores have announced that they’ll be remaining closed this B...
Imagine having ‘Festive Food Tester’ on your CV. We may have written off 2020 as the worst year yet, but this year has brought us some insane dream job roles to apply for, from selling books in the Maldives to running t...
Jupiter and Saturn are about to have a reunion in the sky and we’re all invited to watch. Jupiter and Saturn are set to line up together for the first time in nearly 800 years. The two planets have been approaching for...
Cases in the region are decreasing. Following the news that Greater Manchester would be placed back in tier 3 following the national lockdown, despite cases significantly decreasing across the region, Andy Burnham has r...
Manchester will enter Tier 3 of the coronavirus alert system after lockdown ends on December 2. After Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed the House of Commons on Monday to outline the government’s plans for Dec...
The Oxford English Dictionary has always chosen a single Word of the Year, but 2020 is an entirely different beast. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary names its Word Of The Year—a word that has entered our vernacu...
The equation for Christmas is simple: three households, five days. With barely a month to go until Santa squeezes himself down the chimney (mask firmly on, we assume), our attention has been focused as much on the coron...
The Prime Minister has clarified what will happen after the November lockdown ends. The proposed end of England’s November lockdown is coming into view, and naturally the question on everyone’s lips is what...