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Manchester has a new low-carbon energy center that will supply heat and power to several buildings throughout the region. The architectural and functional design of the structure is a result of 10 years of innovative material...

Barclays and HSBC targeted on final day of protests against fossil fuel investments

Architecture firm Chapman Taylor unveiled images of the recently completed Holiday Inn Express at Manchester’s Trafford City – the first hotel in the North West to be built using a special type of volumetric modular construction...

Readers respond to news of scrapped rail electrification plans and the folly of HS2The transport secretary’s announcement (Fury as soaring cost halts electrification, 21 July) is disastrous for the UK – on economic,...

Unless businesses are proactive, surplus food from New Smithfield Market will feed anaerobic digestion plant instead of those living in food poverty, FairShare saysIt's 8am at New Smithfield Market in north Manchester, and...

Five people locked to bus parked across Barton Moss site, following wind turbine blade blockade earlier in the week

Five people locked to bus parked across Barton Moss site, following wind turbine blade blockade earlier in the week

One Angel Square is a 500,000 sq ft, 14-story building right in downtown of Manchester. Now the largest building in the city, it is part of a larger effort to redevelop the core and is strategically located to Victoria Station,...

US, Canada, Russia and France among 13 to sign agreements with Open Data Institute co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-LeeJust one year after its foundation in London, an organisation created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel...

Canadian and Chinese-owned firm also considers Surrey and Sussex locations, but discounts use of fracking at this stageIGas, partly owned by a Chinese state company, is planning to drill two wells between Manchester and Liverpool...

For some of us, it takes a couple cups of coffee to wake up and hit the road. The Bean Machine, a coffee-powered pickup built by UK engineer and conservationist Martin Bacon, takes the notion of caffeine-based energy to a...

When you pay for a music festival ticket, there are some fees that are simply annoying. (Twenty bucks for a processing fee? Are the tickets being hand-delivered by the Pony Express?!) But for this year’s upcoming Bonnaroo...

When you pay for a music festival ticket, there are some fees that are simply annoying. (Twenty bucks for a processing fee? Are the tickets being hand-delivered by the Pony Express?!) But for this year’s upcoming Bonnaroo...

One Angel Square is the largest commercial building in Manchester, England – and it is now the highest scoring BREEAM Outstanding building in the United Kingdom...

Peel Energy is pushing ahead with a bid to build a biomass energy plant, in Davyhulme, despite opposition from Trafford council and local residents. Emily Brinnand reportsTrafford's political groups are united against controversial...