The Mill

02/12/2025

Read our reporting on the confidential report into the behaviour of Manchester City Council executives, and the suspension of James Binks as CEO of Rochdale Council, at the link in our bio.

30/11/2025

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22/11/2025

The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen. Grand old titles like the Oldham Evening Chronicle and the Bolton Evening News used to inhabit imposing buildings buzzing with staff. What have we lost?

What happens when a community loses its champion?

20/11/2025

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01/11/2025

Nigel Farage says this summer’s flag raising movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found.

16/10/2025

🚨 Exclusive: Manchester Pride is on the brink of collapse.

Two people with direct knowledge of the situation have told us that Manchester Pride Ltd, the organisation that runs the event, has run out of money and can no longer pay its bills.

Read our full story.

The Mill understands that the organisation is about to go into administration

02/10/2025

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

30/08/2025

Exclusive: Flags protesting "unchecked immigration" have gone up across the city - led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van.

Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

09/08/2025

‘Once in a House on Fire’ - Andrea Ashworth's book about growing up in a tough home in Manchester - was a huge hit and the literary world was eagerly waiting for her next one. But years passed, and it never came. So why did she vanish from view?

We tracked her down on the other side of the world to find out.

My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation