Nearly 50 years after permission was first granted to extract peat from Chat Moss, both Salford and Wigan Council refused on environmental grounds to renew William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd’s licence to continue extraction. Sinclair has appealed the decision to both councils, and a Public Inquiry has been launched to decide on the 10,000 year old moss land’s future.

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Fears of “collective punishment” have been raised following threats by the Crown Prosecution Service to evict the family of Munir Farooqi, a man recently convicted on terrorism charges, from their home.

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Health workers, trade unionists and refugees staged a demonstration yesterday against the invitation of a member of the Bahraini royal family to a business event organised by Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the government export body UK Trade and Industry.

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Mancunians who are more reluctant to welcome the Tories to the city centre than the council may well be interested in what they’ve been getting up to since they swarmed out of Piccadilly on Sunday. From the looks of it, they’re hardly likely to have endeared themselves to anyone.

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Around 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Manchester today to protest against the Conservative Party Conference. The demonstration, named ‘Manchester for the Alternative’, was organised by the Trades Union Congress and the Right to Work campaign and drew in unionists and anti-cuts protestors from around the UK, with some coming from as far away as the West Country and Wales.

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The start of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester this weekend will be marked by large-scale demonstrations against the coalition government’s programme of public spending cuts.

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Following two weekends of harassment from police and council officials, campaigners from a range of different political groups in Manchester on Saturday successfully held a mass street stall protest along Market Street against what they claim is a clampdown on free speech in the city centre.

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