The first surviving film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is to be screened at Stretford Mall more than a century after it first wowed silent movie audiences, as part of a unique pop-up cinema event. Audience members are set for a magical experience as the film, directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio in Italy in 1912, […]
SCHOOLCHILDREN are designing two huge murals featuring Manchester icons including LS Lowry, John Rylands, the Essoldo cinema, Frances Lennon MBE, and even a number 256 bus, as part of the multi-million pound redevelopment at Stretford Mall. The seven-foot-high by fifteen-foot-long foot long community art panels are being designed by pupils at Lostock College secondary school […]
BRITAIN’S Got Talent dance sensation Signature will take centre stage at a charity ball organised by a Wrexham businessman to raise funds for children with a rare disease. The world’s number one Michael Jackson dance tribute, who came runners up in the second series of the hit TV talent show and have been complimented by […]
CROWDS joined in singing and dancing as Liverpool’s biggest ever open-air ukulele jam saw more than a hundred musicians burst into a rousing rendition of You Are My Sunshine, at the heart of the city’s busy shopping district. More than a hundred ukulele players were greeted with cheers and applause at the megabusk sing-along organised […]
More than a hundred ukulele players are set to get Liverpool smiling with a mass singalong of the classic lullaby ‘You Are My Sunshine’, to celebrate World Ukulele Day. Musicians from ten Merseyside ukulele bands will join together for the biggest open air uke jam the city centre has ever seen, on Saturday February 2. […]
A dog who broke his leg while chasing a car has gone on to have a successful career in the canine sport of flyball. Bryn the Border Collie has come on leaps and bounds since the accident when he was a pup. But thanks to vets at Willows Veterinary Group, the plucky pooch has put […]
A finance firm worker from Gobowen has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to walk along the Great Wall of China raising a whopping £2,500 for a Wrexham hospice. Steph Edwards, who is a paraplanner for Hadlow Edwards Wealth Management Ltd, based at the former Wrexham Lager brewery building, took part in a 20-mile charity trek in […]
A barbershop at Stetford Mall is to be transformed into the set of classic TV sitcom Desmonds for a special pop up social hub event to celebrate Black British comedy. Shoppers will be offered free haircuts while they watch episodes of the hit 1990s show, at Future Cuts hairdressers in Stretford Mall, next weekend on […]
A revolutionary North West skincare company that harnesses the healing power of green tea to reduce scarring has clinched a major deal with Boots the chemist. The contract with the high street retail giant comes three years after Science of Skin (SOS) was founded by two medics on a mission to help heal the world’s […]
A NEW branch of the UK’s fastest-growing independent travel agency has opened its doors in Rochdale creating six new jobs. Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd and the Deputy Mayor Councillor Billy Sheerin were among the VIP guests for the official opening at the new Hays Travel store on Yorkshire Street, which is part of Rochdale Exchange […]
