Musicians from Manchester’s past and present have joined together to launch an album in aid of a mental health charity which aims to reduce suicides among young men.
One of the North West’s hidden treasures, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, has been shortlisted for the Culture24′s Connect10 Museums at Night competition.
Core services in Manchester’s 39 Sure Start centres are to be preserved following a year-long battle by campaigners. Council-run daycare is still to be scrapped however – despite councillors raising serious concerns.
Asylum-seeking playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey have returned to Manchester following a dramatic eleventh-hour battle against deportation.
Fuel Poverty Action are planning a weekend of action in the last weekend of January to highlight growing concern around fuel poverty in the UK, and is being supported locally by Manchester Climate Action and nationally by the Coalition of Resistance.
Cameroonian playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey were unexpectedly detained earlier this week. Both have been issued with removal orders and now face the immanent prospect of deportation on Saturday 21 January.
Campaigners in support of disabled asylum seeker Manjeet Kaur’s fight to remain in the UK will hold a solidarity vigil outside Manchester Civil Justice Centre this Monday.
