Football fans of all clubs will get the chance to grill a panel of experts on match-related policing and stewarding issues at Manchester City’s Ethiad stadium tomorrow evening, Thursday March 1.
PCS union leader Mark Serwotka is to be the main speaker at this Wednesday’s launch of Greater Manchester Unite the Resistance, a national campaign to strengthen strike action and opposition to austerity.
A rally against plans to implement controversial NHS changes will be held in Manchester this Saturday, March 3. The demonstration comes as the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, widely criticised by medical associations, enters its final stages in Parliament.
Legends, one of the city’s most famous alternative LGBTQ venues and the home of Northern Soul, is under threat of demolition to make way for a hotel. Plans to tear down the building have met with vigorous opposition, with campaigners pointing to its vital importance for Manchester’s independent LGBTQ culture.
Greater Manchester’s heritage is to be celebrated with today’s launch of the second Manchester Histories Festival. A host of events are planned, with a packed programme of performances, lectures, walks, discussions and more over the next ten days.
Manchester’s council tenants face an inflation-busting 6.48 per cent rent hike from April, according to plans signed off by Town Hall chiefs last week. Social tenants across the country face even steeper rises, as the government slashes welfare and pushes through housing reforms.
Contact from the outside world can mean a great deal to a prisoner. A new group, Manchester Prisoner Support, is meeting regularly to write letters to prisoners incarcerated for acts in relation to political activism.
