Controversy surrounding the closure of the Burnage NHS Walk-In centre reached the House of Commons this week as local Liberal Democrat MP John Leech addressed Gordon Brown on the issue in this week’s Prime Minister’s Question Time.
The second of MULE’s new weekly news round-up. Manchester MPs’ expenses, Council Chief Exec gets top business award, more public money, football pitches on Chorlton Meadows and more…
Supporters of Lydia Besong are demanding her immediate release after she was detained this morning by immigration officials. Lydia, a playwright and human rights activist seeking asylum in the UK, was snatched this morning while signing in at the Home Office Reporting Centre Dallas Court in Salford. She is now being held in a detention […]
British Transport Police (BTP) will be armed with electric stun guns as part of a three-month trial scheme patrolling the railways of Manchester, London and Cardiff. Until recently, they have called in armed officers from other forces when dealing with incidents that require them.
The Bank of England has faced a raft of criticism in the aftermath of last week’s news that it loaned a total of £61bn in secret to struggling British banks.
Here at MULE we simply don’t have the resources to report on every interesting and ridiculous story we come across from around the Greater Manchester area. So from now on we’ll be providing a weekly round-up every Friday of those little things we didn’t get to cover.
Two of the ‘North West 10’ have won a landmark High Court victory, overturning the government’s decision to withhold bail on secret evidence. Ten Pakistani students were arrested in April in bungled terror raids across the Northwest and two have been locked up ever since.
