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.
Anti-poverty campaigners War on Want are taking action this Saturday against Adidas, a top Olympics sponsor accused of exploiting sweatshop labour.
Former BT executive John Thornhill has been appointed chief executive of the Manchester College, taking over from outgoing boss Peter Tavernor who will retire in August.
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.
Legends, one of the city’s major alternative LGBTQ venues and once home to the famous Northern Soul club Twisted Wheel, is to be demolished to make way for a hotel.
The park conservation group Friends of Platt Fields will hold an open meeting this Saturday to debate whether the South Manchester park can sustain the impact of hosting large events without more done to care for it.
Two women will raise funds for destitute asylum seekers this weekend by cycling 130 miles from Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford to Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Bedfordshire.
