A celebrity campaign is underway to help a children’s charity raise the quarter of a million pounds it needs to stay open.
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to live a healthier lifestyle then Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, are helping to make it that bit easier by advising people on how they can buy local organic produce in bulk.
Campaigners scored a decisive victory in the fight to save Chorlton Meadows on Thursday 14 January, as developers withdrew plans for a sports complex on Hardy Farm at a meeting of the Manchester City Council Planning Committee.
Following a vigil and letters to MPs, the Home Office and airlines Lydia Besong is to be released from Yarl’s Wood and her case re-opened.
Three years ago this month lawyers representing the then Home Secretary John Reid admitted in court that children had been held in detention centres illegally.
The future of a strip of Green Belt land in Salford is being threatened by an industrial development plan proposed by Salford City Council. The development could also menace the existence of a number of endangered bird species.
Anti-militarist campaigners from across the Northwest will be holding a 22 day long protest against Chadderton-based weapons component manufacturer Brimar from December 27.
