With communities reeling from cuts, poverty among the most vulnerable in society remains as high and relevant as ever. Bernadette Hyland speaks to one group in Oldham seeking to bring communities together and end the enforced destitution of asylum seekers.
The 2011 Victoria Park Festival is in full swing, but few now know of the area’s historical significance as Manchester’s first gated community. Andy Northcott explains.
Tim Hunt is given a tour of Manchester with a difference by Morag Rose of the Loiterers Resistance Movement.
From June the government’s new back-to-work scheme for the unemployed, run by multinational companies and farmed out to hard-pressed charities, will swing into action. MULE takes a look at what’s in store…
Manchester city centre has certainly not been a stranger to marches, rallies and demonstrations over the past few months with student, trade union and council led protests against governmental policies taking place regularly around the city.
Bahraini citizens who participated in a solidarity protest in Manchester against their government’s repression of pro-democracy demonstrations have alleged that they are being targeted for reprisals.
Regeneration company New East Manchester Ltd is about to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manchester City Council. But despite its chair and chief executive remaining publicly upbeat, the future of East Manchester’s flagship redevelopment looks far from certain. Andy Lockhart explains.
