Manchester community leaders unite against cuts to give city ‘service it deserves’
Councillors and community leaders from across Manchester get together to discuss the impact of public sector cuts on the safety and security of local communities.
You’ve met Nigel Farage and Ukip… now meet Mick Mirage and the Fear Party
Stewart Tempeste-Drain and Jordi Fiesto are the two main forces behind the newly-released Euro Disco Zone video – which features the satirical ‘Fear Party’ led by ‘Mick Mirage’.
Selfridges ‘anti-homeless’ spike row: Manchester activist calls for ‘pillow fight’
A Manchester activist is encouraging people to donate their pillows to people sleeping rough in a fight against Selfridges’ controversial installation of ‘anti-homeless’ spikes outside their city-centre store.
Manchester ‘at risk’ as £41m cuts will take ‘hundreds’ of police off streets
Police and Crime Commissioner, Tony Lloyd revealed that millions have been taken from Greater Manchester to fund government ‘pet projects’.
‘Back off’ Ofsted! ‘Climate of fear’ forces out finest teachers, says NUT chief
John Morgan, secretary for the Manchester Union of Teachers (NUT), believes that teachers are being forced out of the profession through ‘intolerable pressure’ by Ofsted.
Cable’s £10m biotech funding injection is ‘another step for Manchester devolution’
Business Secretary Vince Cable announced yesterday at the University Of Manchester Government plans to invest £10.3million into their Institute of Biotechnology.
Brit kids’ school curriculum ‘from Victorian era’, claims North West MEP
Julie Ward MEP, whose sister is a teacher, believes that ‘knee-jerk’ government interventions in offering incentives for STEM recruits has prompted further crisis in the education system.
North West single parents claiming Jobseeker’s HALVED in two years
The number of single parents on Jobseeker’s Allowance has almost halved in the last two years
Shipman victim families betrayed by government, says GMP chief Tony Lloyd
Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester’s Police and Crime Commissioner, hit out at the government’s failure to implement promised changes in the wake of the Shipman murders during their ‘botched’ reorganisation of the NHS.
Leon Brittan’s death is huge setback to child abuse inquiry, says Simon Danczuk
Leon Brittan’s response to the child sex abuse inquiry while he was alive was ‘wholly inadequate’, according to Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk.
‘Dithering’ over plain cigarette packaging costs NHS billions, says Manchester MP
Mr Leech has previously expressed criticism of cigarette packaging legislation, slamming Labour and the Tories for being influenced by big businesses and trade unions.