Friends of Library Walk campaigners have hit out at Manchester City Council’s failure to answer questions over controversial plans to gate off and construct a “glazed link” across one of the city centre’s iconic passageways.
Ask Developments, in partnership with Manchester City Council, aim to develop a 20 acre site surrounding Number One First Street, located in one of the quieter patches of the city centre opposite the former Haçienda. Their vision is to create a neighbourhood with a “compelling blend of culture, leisure, retail and office space” to attract investment at a time of economic uncertainty.
Artists fed up with Manchester City Council’s “undemocratic” decision to restrict the choice of the new Peterloo Massacre memorial to just three people have vowed to install a DIY monument of their own – a 15ft tall Liberty Cap outside Manchester Central Convention Centre.
Former BT executive John Thornhill has been appointed chief executive of the Manchester College, taking over from outgoing boss Peter Tavernor who will retire in August.
Not even Manchester’s Liberal Democrats were willing to defend the latest round of government cuts to council tax benefit, as Manchester City Council’s executive met for the final time before the summer.
Two women will raise funds for destitute asylum seekers this weekend by cycling 130 miles from Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford to Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Bedfordshire.
Olympics security firm G4S supplied an “intelligence analyst” familiar with legislation governing surveillance powers to Greater Manchester Police (GMP), according to a vacancy advertised on the website of the multinational company’s subsidiary “Policing Solutions” last January.
