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Later this year, a former train platform at the top of Depot Mayfield will be converted into a huge rooftop cinema. The purpose-built 330-capacity indoor winter cinema will give visitors access to movie-grade sets, and the chance to immerse themselves in a purpose-built enchanted forest.

In a nod to the flourishing urban gardening trend sweeping the city, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has announced its first-ever Urban Show.

A sculpture trail featuring six giant heads has popped up in Greater Manchester, with the aim of promoting mental health awareness. The large installations, each one hand-painted, appeared earlier this month and will be on display until December 11.

Three new towers have topped out in Manchester. And while that might sound like nothing new in the ever-growing city centre, there’s a twist.

With the nights drawing in, thoughts are turning to this year's big festive light events and there are plenty of them.

At Manchester's Mayfield Park the bees are literally buzzing as they dart among the lavender and blooms. The city's first new park for a century has exploded into floral life in its first summer - and it will be the simply stunning location for Manchester International Festival's big opening event for its 2023 return.

Major plans to build new offices and a car park next to Manchester’s newest city centre park have been changed.

After last week’s rainy weather, Greater Manchester is set to bask in the sun over the next few days. The Met Office has forecasted wall to wall sunshine for Tuesday, with highs of 15C expected.

Residents in one of Manchester's trendiest neighbourhoods are set to get something they've wanted for ages - a rejuvenated park.

People in Greater Manchester are being asked where smoking should be banned ahead of plans to create a smokefree space by the end of this year. A new consultation has been launched, inviting residents, community groups and businesses to have their say on the plans to make some outdoor public spaces smokefree with the first to be created in Manchester city centre.

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Manchester’s highly-anticipated new park has taken another step forward this month. Mayfield Park will be the city centre’s first new park in more than 100 years.

Erica van Frankenhuyzen found her passion at the age of 15. Unlike other girls in her class, she took an interest in welding and fell in love with it.

These are the first images of plans for a massive new children's playground coming to Manchester city centre.

Plans to build a rooftop swimming pool on a disused platform on the roof of Escape to Freight Island are in discussion, according to property developers.

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direct to your inboxWork has began to build Mayfield Park - the first in Manchester for 100 years, the M.E.N can reveal.Construction is now underway at the 6.5 acre site behind Piccadilly station that has been an industrial wasteland for decades.For years, regeneration plans for the forgotten corner of the city centre have failed to get off the ground.But the breakthrough finally came with the formation of a joint public-private venture in 2016 comprising of Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester, developer LCR and regeneration specialist U+I.Under the terms of the Mayfield Partnership, it is understood Manchester Council agreed to provide land assets in return for a share of future profits.It is expected these will