Following two weekends of harassment from police and council officials, campaigners from a range of different political groups in Manchester on Saturday successfully held a mass street stall protest along Market Street against what they claim is a clampdown on free speech in the city centre.
Manchester City Council is to raise heating bills for up to 2,000 of its council tenants by 18 per cent this winter. Increased for the second time this year, the increase comes as energy suppliers hike their charges to the council by £278,000, twice the amount anticipated.
Our editors’ pick of the last week’s local stories. Campaigners and local MPs join forces to demand an investigation into the policing of an anti-racist demonstration in Bolton, property developers line up to get their share of the Co-op’s new investments in the city centre and Greater Manchester Police embroil themselves in yet more taser […]
Sure Start’s future as a council run service is in question following proposals by town hall chiefs to close all of their nurseries and daycare provision in Manchester. The move will mean the loss of hundreds more jobs amid a dramatic shakeup of Manchester City Council’s early years service for children aged 0 – 5, […]
Withington Liberal Democrat MP John Leech’s decision to vote in favour of the government’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill last week must have raised eyebrows among his constituents, considering his equally controversial history of healthcare campaigns.
This week we cover government contractors squirreling profits from public money into tax havens, electricians gearing up for wildcat strikes as bosses threaten to slash pay by more than a third and the Co-op’s ambitious plans for redeveloping Manchester, which involve turning the city centre into either a brave new world or Robocop in the rain depending on how […]
Two Cameroonian asylum seekers, the playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey, have been told by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) that they will be deported from the UK on Saturday September 10. Batey is currently in immigration detention, and campaigners are calling for his immediate release and a cancellation of the deportation order.
