Corrie Legends Les Dennis and Connor McIntyre Opened this years Christmas Markets as well as The Ice Village attraction which is brand new to Manchester this year featuring 250 tonnes of hand carved ice sculptures, ice bars, Santa’s grotto and an ice rink – the Ice Village has something... 

Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, and other organisations, have joined forces in the Treacle campaign to help Halloween and bonfire night revellers have fun and stay safe. Advice about organising safe ‘trick or treating’, plus information about firework... 

Reviewer Ian Robert Hills Wythenshawe FM 97. Just down the road 55 years ago the Beatles made their first TV appearance at Granada TV Studios to record two performances for ‘Scene at 6.30’ on Wednesday 14 August 1963. They performed ‘Twist and Shout’ and ‘She Loves You’. ‘Beatlemania’... 

  TfGM Chair Councillor Andrew Fender with 100th tram Andrew Fender, Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) ex-Chair, has been given the Judges’ Special Award at the Global Light Rail Awards. Only bestowed at the judges’ discretion, the award is given to individuals and organisations... 

Reviewer Ian Robert Hills WFM 97.2 The English National Ballet ‘Manon’ danced its way to Manchester Opera House on UK tour Sixty world-class dancers performed alongside a full orchestra in one of the most acclaimed story ballets, created in Britain by Kenneth MacMillan with music by Jules... 

MORE than 1,200 apprenticeships could be created through funding targeted by the Greater Manchester regional authority to help smaller businesses and to support priority sectors such as digital and health and social care. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) will be using almost... 

American Airlines AA1980 LAX- Los Angeles to MAN-Manchester has landed at the Opera House with the musical Rock of Ages. Review by Ian Robert Hills, Wythenshawe FM 97.2, 25th September 2018. Here we go again – the smash hit musical is back in the UK. Rock of Ages is an LA love story... 

Lowry Theatre, Salford, 4th September 2018   Review by Ian Hills, Wythenshawe FM 97.2 Early Doors, based in a Stockport pub, showing at the Lowry Theatre, is a night of good humour and laughter. A BBC 2 sitcom from 15 years ago with a cult following, turned into a stage show, would seem... 

Review by Ian Hills Wythenshawe FM 97.2 1960’s Liverpool music history sails along the Manchester Ship Canal and docks at the Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. CILLA – THE MUSICAL is the new spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically-acclaimed hit ITV television... 

Volunteers at WFM 97.2 would like to say a big thank you to residents of M22 and M23, and beyond, who have supported Wythenshawe’s community radio station in recent supermarket tokens’ appeals and bag packing fundraising events. Shoppers at Tesco Extra in Baguley, Tesco Metro in Northenden,... 

Local people are invited to join the fun of the Northenden Boat race and then take part in a guided walk exploring 1,000 years of Northenden history. Starting at 3pm on Sunday 26th August, the walk sets off from the wall post-box at St. Wilfrid’s Church, opposite Cromwell Cottage on Ford... 

There has been an arresting development at the Greater Manchester Police Museum in Manchester city centre. Katie Henderson has copped the top job and joined the GMP Museum to lead it as the new curator. The museum is currently one of the top rated attractions in Manchester on TripAdvisor and... 

Greater Manchester’s first ever night-time economy adviser, Sacha Lord, has unveiled a panel of leading figures from across the city-region to support his work in improving Greater Manchester’s nightlife and night-time economy. The night-time economy is deemed to run from 6pm and 6am. Around... 

MMU and GMP have teamed up to bring a state-of-the-art, fully equipped forensic laboratory to a city centre police station in the country’s first initiative of it’s kind. Using the new equipment from Manchester Metropolitan University, police will be able to quickly tell what is in...