News round-up 14-18 December

Article published: Tuesday, December 22nd 2009

It’s more than a little late this week, but MULEs have been very busy, in transit rather a lot recently, and quite a lot happened last week! We hope you were able to catch us on All FM on Monday afternoon, it was great fun and we enjoyed talking with Banji on ‘The Free Mind […]

Who runs Manchester?

Article published: Saturday, December 19th 2009

Q. What do Sir Richard Leese and Wayne Rooney have in common?

Thousands facing winter cold unnecessarily

Article published: Friday, December 18th 2009

Thousands of vulnerable people in Manchester risk being left in the cold during this Christmas simply because they’re not aware of a government scheme.

When the other Miliband came to town

Article published: Thursday, December 17th 2009

Last week Ed Miliband came to Manchester for a chat. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change dropped in for a discussion about the stakes of climate change and the government’s plans before jetting off to Copenhagen for this week’s highly-anticipated UN Conference. MULE was in attendance, and not that surprised to be […]

Funding cuts hit frontline organisations in Manchester

Article published: Wednesday, December 16th 2009

Several Greater Manchester organisations have been among those hit by government cuts to funding for  grassroots campaign groups.

Still working for a Nuclear Free City?

Article published: Tuesday, December 15th 2009

The University of Manchester’s Dalton Institute is to receive over £8 million of investment from the Government to support the civil nuclear industry, in a deal announced this week by Business Secretary Lord Mandelson as part of the government’s plans to create a low carbon economic area in the Northwest. Yet the development will jeopardise […]

University research findings called into question over Tesco funding

Article published: Monday, December 14th 2009

Research undertaken at the University of Manchester has concluded that loyalty bonuses are a more effective way of motivating customers to re-use plastic bags than to charge for them. However, the independence of this research has been thrown into doubt, raising questions over the £25 million donation received from Tesco by the Sustainable Consumption Institute.