Andy Bowman interviews Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981
Epsom in Surrey, an affluent commuter town on the chalk downs of Surrey that Location, Location, Location named the ‘Best place to Live in the UK’ in 2005. It’s just the kind of place you might expect to find a man like Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary. Grayling is an Oxbridge graduate, and before […]
A popular library in a “homes fit for heroes” Fallowfield council estate built after World War I is threatened with closure – but locals say they’ll fight to keep it.
Environmentalists fighting a two year battle to protect Chat Moss have hailed a victory against “unnecessary vandalism” as government minister Eric Pickles upholds peat extraction ban in the vulnerable wetlands.
Salford City Council’s Planning and Transport Regulatory Panel unanimously refused to allow the continued extraction of peat at Chat Moss at its meeting on Thursday 30 June 2011. The case has been hailed as a “landmark decision” which may set a precedent for other similar cases on peat extraction elsewhere in the country. Councillor Derek Antrobus, […]
Two environmental activists who chained themselves to machinery at a peat bog extraction site at Chat Moss, Salford were acquitted by Salford magistrates court yesterday.