Bankers and multinational firms are seizing tracts of land the size of Greater Manchester from African farmers every five days, campaigners from Oxfam have warned.
Cuts to mental health services, including axing 38 front line posts as part of a bid to save £28m over the next five years, have been approved by Manchester’s Mental Health and Social Care Trust, despite warnings from patients and trade unions.
Trade unionists from Manchester and Pakistan are calling for solidarity after a fire in a Karachi factory killed at least 264 people who were trapped inside.
Fears of torture and rape have been raised by supporters of Sukai Jack, a detained Salford asylum seeker due to be deported to Gambia tomorrow evening.
Multi-billion pound auditing firm KPMG has praised Manchester for being the most tax-attractive city in Europe thanks to its low wages and cheap property values.
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.
The family of a man shot dead by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have renewed calls for justice after companions present with him at the time of the killing were cleared of planning an armed robbery.
