Medina Burnley: The African team that emulate the Premier League’s Clarets
A team from West Africa have played under the name Medina Burnley for the last few decades.
Manchester pro-Palestine campaigners occupy G4S to protest ‘human rights abuse’
Pro-Palestine groups joined forces today to protest the security firm G4S.
They claim the company are complicit in human rights abuses and unlawful activities.
Deploying private security companies could make starting wars easier, warns Manchester Uni study
Countries could soon use private security companies to make it easier to go to war and make them last longer, according to new research by the University of Manchester.
G4S protest: Caged ‘prisoner’ at Labour Party Conference highlights plight of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
A caged and cuffed ‘prisoner’ is part of an ongoing protest outside the Labour Party Conference in Manchester today – highlighting the treatment of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons.
Tune in to Town Hall: First livestream of Manchester City Council meeting proves better than Jeremy Kyle
Sir Richard Leese’s promise that the first-ever livestream of a Manchester City Council meeting would be better than daytime television proved too – but not quite in the way he planned.
Cancer charities set to reap rewards after Manchester police stamp out illegal match day car parking scam
Seven car parks in Old Trafford and Salford Quays are being used
Refund: Greater Manchester Police handed more than £440,000 for saving Olympic private security blunder
GMP stepped in for G4S failings at London 2012
Press the pause button! Manchester MP Andy Burnham pushes government to halt PTS privatisation
Patient Transport Services will begin slipping, warns MP.
Cheeky thief masks face with umbrella to rob cash box G4S security guard at Manchester Natwest bank
G4S guard targeted in planned attack.
Manchester police cuts: Labour calls for rethink over Government plans to axe 1,500 officers from GMP
Labour’s policing chiefs have called on the Government to rethink plans to cut more than 1,500 officers from Greater Manchester Police.
Olympic security fiasco proves private sector role in policing needs rethink, shadow minister tells Manchester
More than 1,500 positions in GMP will be cut