Local arts organisations are pushing for culture to be the catalyst for the town’s rebirth
At the height of production, Stoke-on-Trent supported 70,000 jobs in the ceramics industry, earning its moniker the Potteries.
“The government has put the small brewing industry in such distress by failing to cut VAT..." - as brewers in and around Bolton innovate and battle for success, at least 100 nationwide have closed and for many - simply surviving is the day-to-day priority
Arts leaders in Blackpool are working with the local authority to draw up a five-year Cultural Plan - so now is the right time to set out big aspirations.
The scandal was long in the public eye, but feeling something is vastly different to merely knowing it, and narrative productions is how many of us connect to issues emotionally. This is why ongoing cuts to production budgets spell disaster.
The Lead's Leah Borromeo speaks with fellow documentary filmmaker Paul Sng about "Tish" - an intimate, powerful portrait about photographer Tish Murtha and her social realist images of 1970s and 1980s Britain.
Ghanian artist and poet Kwame Aidoo reports his impressions from the climate change Biennale that is bringing African voices into the heart of the architectural mainstream - despite obstruction from Italy's own government.
Both the subject and Christopher Nolan's craft would have been better served by a miniseries - or by expanding one of this film's dazzling array of cinematic styles into a standalone film.
On the face of it, a new category exclusively reserved for African music could end the drought of African winners. However, this move is risky precisely because it is exclusive - and so generic.
The 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Leslie Lokko, feels like a radical subversion of everything you might expect from the world's main architectural exhibition - deposited right into the heart of the artistic establishment.