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1. 1. Man who helped to shape Manchester

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 May 2004 RICHARD Cobden, born 200 years ago next week, became a wealthy businessman despite having little formal education.

2. 2. Manchester University

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 July 2003 THE oldest of& Manchester's& higher education& institutions is the University itself.&  This was set up in 1851 under the will of John Owens, a local entrepreneur: it was the fifth University to be set up in Britain.& 

3. 3. Chinese Arts Centre

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 18 July 2003

   Reflecting the importance of the north west's Chinese community, the Arts Centre offers changing arts exhibitions, workshops, education programmes and information on Chinese arts and culture.

4. 4. Pumphouse People's History Museum

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 July 2003 THE& museum is based around the lives of the working class and their political struggles across Briatin, not simply in Manchester.&  These could seem hopelessly worthy themes but the immediacy of the displays and their great variety manage to tread the difficult ground between information, education and entertainment.

5. 5. Whale of a time at the zoo

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 August 2003 VISITORS to Chester Zoo are in for a whale of a time. The Zoo's Education Department& is to run& a Whale Workshop, with life-sized inflatable marine mammals, in the Wildlife Discovery Centre.

6. 6. Bear Necessities at Portland Basin Museum

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 March 2005 BEAR Necessities hits a beat with all ages and is adorable. The brains behind the exhibition is artist Alison Hempstock, who sparked the idea when she sent photos of her two bears, Lloyd and Patiently, to Museums Manager Emma Varnam.

7. 7. Saudi days in Heaton Park

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 July 2005 FOR five days various dancers, craftsmen, camels, poets, Arab horses, Bedouin tents and an Arabian Bridal show will take over Heaton Park as part of a project called Saudi Arabian Days.

8. 8. A life leading from the front

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 31 May 2005 BARONESS Shirley Williams is slowing down, but not bowing out. At the age of 74, one of the towering figures of British political life is finally taking a step away from frontline politics, after an extraordinary 40-year career. She appears at The Lowry on Sunday.

9. 9. VE Day: Manchester's brave new world

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 05 May 2005 AS winter turned to spring six decades ago, much of Manchester city centre lay in ruins. The Free Trade Hall had been all but reduced to rubble by a German air raid and a firestorm had devastated the area to the south of Piccadilly Gardens during the Christmas Blitz of 1940. The landmark Victoria Buildings were destroyed and Manchester cathedral and the Royal Exchange were damaged.

10. 10. Vikings set up home at Tatton

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 August 2005 TWO weeks in to the school holidays and it is likely that what went in one ear may have started to seep out of the other at a startling pace. Stem all that acquired knowledge, dripping like water from a tap with a faulty washer, with a visit to Tatton Park where Vikings are set to invade the Old Hall.& 

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