The Tata Group, currently on the Burma “dirty list” for selling services and equipment to the Burmese government, has been using Manchester as a testing ground for the release of its latest product. Through subsidiary Tata Global Beverages and a front company, Clever Jelly, it has been marketing its Sukk drink to young people through […]
Two environmental activists who chained themselves to machinery at a peat bog extraction site at Chat Moss, Salford were acquitted by Salford magistrates court yesterday.
Members of the University and College Union at The Manchester College (TMC) were on strike today in the latest stage of the row over new contracts. Pickets lines were held at TMC buildings around the city from 7.30am, before moving to a rally at the Mechanics Institute at midday.
£184,850 of compensation has been awarded to 80 Stoke fans locked in a pub in Irlam by Greater Manchester Police before a Manchester United game.
Manchester Metropolitan University is the second highest climber in the Green League table of UK universities published by People and Planet. Out of the 141 universities and colleges of higher education (HE) in the table Man Met has moved from 91st place in 2007 to 27 this year. However, some Hulme residents are less than […]
Protesters from the Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (D.A.N.) hit the streets of central Manchester last Wednesday as part of a national day of action against the Flexible New Deal.
Manchester and Salford’s immigration reporting centre for people seeking asylum was attacked in the early hours of this morning by protestors. A group broke into the car park at Dallas Court where they sabotaged the vehicles used by the UK Border Agency’s notorious ‘snatch squads’.
