Manchester City Council is backing legal action over this summer’s GCSE grades scandal that may have caused hundreds of the city’s young people to miss out on getting required grades.
Controversial plans to gate off and glaze Library Walk are to be debated in a specially scheduled gathering of Manchester City Council’s top local politicians ahead of a crunch planning meeting.
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.
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.
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.
Town hall bosses have admitted they “can’t guarantee” that some families will not be left worse off when the council scraps its childcare service. Universal daycare in 14 centres across Manchester will end as soon as September, in the first wave of £11.6m cuts over the next four years.
Rumours of plans to turn Oxford Road’s Kro 2 restaurant into a Tesco have been confirmed with the publishing of a licensing application on Manchester City Council’s website.
