MULE caught up with Manchester City Council’s executive Member for the Environment Nigel Murphy at the first annual climate change stakeholder conference held at the Museum of Science and Industry on November 30.
Public money is being ‘wasted’ while vulnerable people are denied access to justice, claim legal aid campaigners in Manchester. They are calling on the Legal Services Commission to back down from defending a challenge taken by two law centres to have their funding restored.
Participants of the 24 November student protest in Manchester have spoken out with allegations of police violence directed towards demonstrators following Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) claim that the demonstration had been a “success” that “passed off peacefully.” Additionally, video evidence of a charge by police horses into a densely packed crowd of demonstrators has emerged, […]
Residents of Collyhurst have reacted with anger at the Department for Communities and Local Government’s announcement of the cancellation of a long-awaited social housing development in North Manchester. Thousands could now be left in properties which do not meet minimum official standards for dwellings, labelled as “disgusting” by a local tenants’ association.
This week will see a wave of protest across Manchester and the country as thousands of university staff and students take part in walkouts called in opposition to the increase of tuition fees and cuts to university budgets. Not sure whether you are going to join them, whether you agree or even what’s wrong with […]
On Monday students from Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester held a rally in All Saints Park ahead of the national day of walk-outs and protests due to take place on Wednesday 24 November. With talk of building occupations in the air and police and university security keeping a watchful eye on proceedings, […]
MULE contributor Clare Sambrook is the winner of this year’s Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism for her work on the detention of children asylum seekers. Clare spoke to us about her work and reaction on winning the prestigious accolade.
