Around 3,000 students took to the streets in Manchester yesterday to protest against reforms to higher education which will see university teaching budgets cut as tuition fees rise. MULE gives a run-down of the day’s events.
A Trafford all-boys grammar school is to get a complete rebuild weeks after the cancellation of a new school in its cash-strapped neighbour Stretford.
Long-time Manchester resident Mehdi Merzae is facing imminent deportation to Kabul in Afghanistan, where he fears he will be tortured again. He is currently being held in Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre and is due to be deported at 3am on Tuesday 23 November on Charter Flight PVT 800.
Last night activists from Manchester Climate Action held an impromptu minute’s silence at the beginning of a Shell sponsored climate change event. The campaigners act of remembrance was for the Ogoni Nine – a group of Nigerian human rights activists who were hanged in November 1995 for campaigning against the destructive practices of the oil […]
A Manchester City Council meeting today committed to produce research into the possibilities for creating a ‘steady state’ economy for the city region as a response to the environmental and economic crises.
The ten local authorities making up Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) have been given new law-making powers forming Britain’s first ‘Super Council’, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).
Supporters of the South Manchester Law Centre (SMLC) and Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) staged a protest outside the Manchester office of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) yesterday, Monday 15 November, calling on them to back down from a legal challenge launched by the SMLC and to restore their full funding.
