Today (March 20) parts of MossSide and Whalley Range (Moss Side West) will become the fifth Manchester neighbourhood to benefit from Pride in Place Funding ... of Moss Side, for the people of Moss Side.
Stuck in traffic on Princess Parkway, it’s easy to miss the ghost of the high street that once thrived there - a world of Edwardian shopfronts, nightclubs and neighbourhood life swept aside by Manchester’s motorway age ... .
When a 19-year-old was blasted with a sawn-off shotgun in September 1985 it was the first sign of a gang war that would blight the city for the next 20 years ... .