Anti-fascist demonstrators are challenging police accounts of the counter-demonstrations against the far-right English Defence League held in Bolton on 20 March.
Latter-day storm troopers are set to rampage across Bolton this Saturday as racist street group the English Defence League plans to march through the city.
Centralisation of the UK’s local media continues following the sale of the majority of the Guardian Media Group’s regional arm, including the Manchester Evening News and its associated weeklies, to Trinity Mirror Plc.
Trafford Council has proposed two schools in Stretford close to form a new Academy. Lostock College and Stretford High School are due to be shut in August with plans for the new Academy based at the site of Stretford High.
Despite high levels of unemployment due to the recession jobseekers in Greater Manchester will be forced to work up to 40 hours a week as part of the Work for Your Benefits (WfYB) pilot scheme. The region is set to be the trialling ground for a government initiative that will see unemployed people put into […]
In early November, Warrington based water giant United Utilities (UU) announced it was significantly restructuring its business. One staff member at the time said they were expecting the loss of 200-250 jobs. CEO Philip Green said a reassessment was necessary in anticipation of the five yearly price review by the industry regulator Ofwat, which came […]
MULE spoke to Alex Halligan, one of the founders of the first modern-day Unemployed Workers’ Union, in Salford. The phenomenon is now sweeping the country, 80 years after the Battle of Bexley Square.
