Vox Pop: What is the Big Society?

Article published: Tuesday, February 22nd 2011

MULE rode up to the corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street in Central Manchester to ask the passing public just what they thought of David Cameron’s “Big Society”… If you would like to make short videos similar to this for Manchester MULE, or if you are already making short films and would like to […]

No proposals to close Sure Start centres, claim councillors

Article published: Thursday, February 17th 2011

Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors once more traded accusations as “the most controversial budget in decades” was presented to the meeting of Manchester City Council’s Executive yesterday.

People’s History Museum in running for Art Fund Prize

Article published: Thursday, February 10th 2011

Residents of Manchester and beyond have been called on to help the People’s History Museum win a prestigious award of £100,000 by pledging their vote in an online poll.

Public services in Manchester face ‘devastation’

Article published: Wednesday, February 9th 2011

Public services across the board from nurseries and youth centres to libraries and leisure centres are to be savagely cut as Manchester City Council deals with a 25 per cent reduction to its budget. The move will see a massive shift of service provision to the voluntary sector, in whose absence it seems services will […]

Solidarity vigil held for Egyptian protestors

Article published: Monday, February 7th 2011

Over one hundred people rallied outside the BBC building on Manchester’s Oxford Road last Friday evening in solidarity with the pro-democracy demonstrations against the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.

By repeating baseless attacks on students, MEN is the GMP’s enabler

Article published: Friday, January 28th 2011

Yesterday the Manchester Evening News published a stern warning from a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) senior officer to those attending Saturday’s protest to behave themselves – a somewhat strange intervention considering that in last year’s protests most disturbances seemed to be committed by the police. In doing this is the MEN reporting on real ‘news’ […]

Calls to save Irlam greenbelt

Article published: Wednesday, January 26th 2011

Campaigners from Save Our North West Green Belt have called for people to object to new  planning application for peat extraction on land owned by Peel Holdings before the deadline tomorrow. William Sinclair Horticulture Limited have submitted a revised application to Salford City Council to continue extracting peat for another 15 years,  after having its […]