Playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard are to have their appeal heard next week against the UK Border Agency’s decision to turn down their fresh claim for asylum.
Cracks are spreading through the far right, with Nick Griffin backing off from standing in the Oldham by-election as the BNP totters on the verge of bankruptcy.
Two climate protesters who blockaded the road entrance to the World Freight Centre of Manchester Airport were found guilty yesterday of obstruction of the highway.
Nine climate activists who pleaded guilty to obstruction of the highway for their part in a demonstration at Manchester Airport last May have been given fines at Trafford Magistrates Court today.
Several major tax dodging businesses were called to account last Saturday by around 50 angry demonstrators in Manchester, who were calling for a stop to large scale corporate tax avoidance at a time of of severe public spending cuts.
Campaigners against the expansion of Manchester Airport took a 12 foot inflatable elephant to the city council’s Climate Change Action Plan stakeholder conference on Tuesday 30 November. Members of Manchester Climate Action were highlighting the omission of the airport from the council’s climate strategy – the ‘elephant in the room’.
After an eight year absence, the temporary squatted social centre ‘OK Cafe’ has re-opened in the Lord Nelson Pub on Newton Street in the Northern Quarter.
