Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors once more traded accusations as “the most controversial budget in decades” was presented to the meeting of Manchester City Council’s Executive yesterday.
Environmental activists who occupied tree-houses and barricaded themselves in underground tunnels during the long running protests against the construction of the second runway at Manchester Airport will be re-united at a public event this Thursday 17 February commemorating the 10th anniversary of the opening of the runway in February 2001.
Residents of Manchester and beyond have been called on to help the People’s History Museum win a prestigious award of £100,000 by pledging their vote in an online poll.
Public services across the board from nurseries and youth centres to libraries and leisure centres are to be savagely cut as Manchester City Council deals with a 25 per cent reduction to its budget. The move will see a massive shift of service provision to the voluntary sector, in whose absence it seems services will […]
Over one hundred people rallied outside the BBC building on Manchester’s Oxford Road last Friday evening in solidarity with the pro-democracy demonstrations against the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) across the city have been rocked by the abolition of funding of debt advice to all except those in the most desperate situations. With this latest blow to the city’s advice sector the chief executive of Manchester CAB is predicting ‘misery’ for individuals in vulnerable situations who rely on such services.
In this morning’s Independent Andrew Grice reveals that the UK Border Agency locked up an 11-year-old girl in an immigration removal centre on Christmas Day in defiance of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s promise that no child would be so detained at Christmas.
