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Kill the Bill: protests continue at St Peter’s Square as people gathered over the Easter weekend to oppose the new crime and policing bill

Demonstrations continued in Manchester over the Easter weekend as protesters call for parliament to ‘kill the bill’. Local organisations came

Expect ‘daily intrusion’ of your privacy under Theresa May’s new surveillance law – Manchester rights group

People should be fearful of ‘daily intrusions’ by police to their internet records and even personal messages without a warrant, warns a Manchester digital rights organisation.

Death… no longer the great equaliser: Funeral poverty and the digitalisation of dying

Funeral costs have nearly doubled in the last decade – yet a bill to seize control of prices and ensure ‘simple funerals’ is being heard in Parliament today in a bid to tackle to spiraling crisis.

‘Patients before profit’: Greater Manchester MPs back bill to ‘save NHS’

Oldham MP, Debbie Abrahams, leant her support after Clive Efford announced the private member’s bill last Friday to re-establish the legal duty to provide national health services in England.

Sex-mad Wigan cllr slapped with female chat ban after kinky hot-line binge and vile texts about ‘f*nnies’

Councillor Robert Bleakley escaped the sack for texts that claimed women were for ‘cleaning and washing material’ and that he hoped jailed Vicky Pryce ‘liked her fanny played with in the showers’.

British Gas branded ‘bullying hypocrites’ after wrongly charging Bolton businessman £17,000 – 100 times too much

British Gas were condemned as ‘bullying hypocrities’ today for filching almost £17,000 from a Bolton businessman’s bank account after officials accidentally overcharged him on his monthly bill.

Data bill is ‘new Big Brother’: Manchester activist slams ‘Orwellian’ government for trying to force through law

The new legislation is being rushed through Parliament this week after Prime Minister David Cameron attracted cross-party support for a law allowing internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies to keep records of calls, texts and internet usage

Pardon for Manchester computer ‘hero’ Alan Turing step closer as bill passes House of Lords debate

Turing was convicted for gross indecency in 1952 over homosexuality

David Cameron’s fight for gay marriage is ‘brave and sincere’, claims Manchester Pride boss

Same-sex marriage should not be a taboo, claims John Stewart

Conservative LGBT chairman voices ‘disappointment’ in Manchester MPs who voted against equal marriage bill

Five MPs voted against same-sex marriage

Tributes paid to heroic disabled rights campaigner Lord Morris of Manchester who dies aged 84

Lord Morris was Wythenshawe MP for 33 years

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