Controversy has erupted around the invitation to Professor Ken Zucker, best known for his contentious work on Childhood Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and the ‘gender repair clinics’ he runs in Toronto, to a prestigious conference in Manchester.
Football Club United of Manchester has received approval by Manchester City Council to build its new home ground at Ten Acres Lane in Newton Heath.
MULE has joined a list of signatories calling for funding to be reinstated for the People’s History Museum in Manchester and other ‘non-national’ museums whose existence is threatened by swingeing government cuts on the arts and culture.
A Trafford all-boys grammar school is to get a complete rebuild weeks after the cancellation of a new school in its cash-strapped neighbour Stretford.
Anti-poverty campaigners the World Development Movement (WDM) claim that speculation on food by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks is fuelling the increase in price of bread and other basic foods such as wheat, maize and soya. Their Manchester branch are holding a stall in Stockport today to highlight the issue.
Long-time Manchester resident Mehdi Merzae is facing imminent deportation to Kabul in Afghanistan, where he fears he will be tortured again. He is currently being held in Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre and is due to be deported at 3am on Tuesday 23 November on Charter Flight PVT 800.
Last night activists from Manchester Climate Action held an impromptu minute’s silence at the beginning of a Shell sponsored climate change event. The campaigners act of remembrance was for the Ogoni Nine – a group of Nigerian human rights activists who were hanged in November 1995 for campaigning against the destructive practices of the oil […]
