"The Wigan quartet show exactly why their rise from sticky-floored pubs to headline festival slots has always felt like a ...

It’s quite ironic that the Royal Northern College of Music should have invited, as director of this, Britten’s avowedly pacifist opera, Orpha Phelan – whose version of his Billy Budd for Opera North ...

Hours before he played a DJ set at iconic venue Revs, Fatboy Slim launched a free show at St Kilda's Northern Soul fish and chip shop. Fatboy Slim (Credit: @duncographic/Supplied) More Fatboy Slim ...

Manchester United have confirmed plans to leave Old Trafford and move to a new 100,000-seater stadium. The new stadium, which will be the largest in the UK, will be built on club-owned land ...

Hello and welcome to The Northern Echo's live blog. Fire crews are attending a blaze at a house in Thornaby. Emergency services have closed Myrtle Grove after a fire broke out at a home on ...

Manchester’s Treehouse hotel, which cost around £25m to develop, has opened to the public today [Wednesday] with rooms available from £199 a night. The ground-floor restaurant Pip by Mary-Ellen ...

As Cork Opera House marks 170 years, Des O'Driscoll gives a taste of some of the greatest nights at the venue through the decades Cork Opera House is currently marking 170 years. Cillian Murphy ...

A digger was driven into the front door of a house in a Co Tyrone village multiple times in the early hours of Tuesday morning while a young child was inside. A car was also set alight during the ...

House of Fraser has secured its place at the iconic Darlington Binns building for 12 more months, The Northern Echo can reveal. The high street chain will remain in the town centre until at ...

Neither Manchester United nor the Premier League ... it’s a bit like valuing a house while not bothering to check upstairs. Yes, it looked lovely last I remember. No, I don’t need to see ...

A woman who was found dead at a house in Netherton has been named locally ... and Natalie Jenkins Howell wrote: "R.i.p u gorgeous soul it should never of come to this." We'll be bringing you ...

A firefighter was hospitalized after battling a house fire in Manchester on Sunday. The Manchester Fire Department responded to 153 Highland St. just after 1 p.m. on Sunday for a report of a ...