United Utilities is the North West’s only FTSE 100 company, servicing seven million customers in the region and employing around 8,500 staff – 500 having been shed this year so far. It has 20 subsidiaries and is today the sixth largest water company in the world. Corporations rarely get to that position without ruthless business […]
MULE’s Tim Hunt caught up with writer and activist Sarah Irving about her influences, politics and new book, Gaza: Beneath the Bombs
United Utilities CEO Philip Green has pledged to continue the company’s “strong focus on operational performance and cost efficiency” as the financial year comes to an end – a year in which 500 jobs have been ‘lost’ in the past few months. While analysts predict profits approaching £500 million, MULE repubishes this article from the […]
Since their emergence in the spring of 2009, there have been fourteen counter demonstrations against the EDL who have very close links with the BNP. In the recent period leading up to the peaceful and dignified celebration of multicultural and multifaith unity and strength that we have called in Bolton tomorrow, a number of developments […]
Manchester City Council is delivering just 13 per cent of affordable housing required in the area, according to homeless charity Shelter’s new ‘Housing League Table’ website.
As part of MULE’s feature on the Welfare Reform Bill, set to be trialled in Greater Manchester towards the end of 2010, Hazel Kent looks at who’s likely to be hit hardest by the Government’s latest welfare-cutting masterplan.
MULE has been following the story of community campaigner and playwright Lydia Besong since December, when she was taken into detention just days after her debut play premiered at The Zion Centre in Hulme. Lydia arrived in the UK in 2006 with her husband, political campaigner Bernard Batey, after fleeing persecution in Cameroon, to claim […]
