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5th May 2017 | By R.Shand

At a time when some members of the public have had enough of elections, the Mayoral election in Manchester offers greater opportunities to examine themes...

5th May 2017 | By nq_admin

Andy Burnham has become the first ever directly elected mayor of Greater Manchester. Winning with 63% of the vote (359,392 votes), Burnham has claimed victory in...

5th May 2017 | By nq_admin

The votes are in and are being counted. All that is left to do is wait for the announcement of Greater Manchester's first ever Mayor. Voter...

4th May 2017 | By [email protected]

Live Blog Manchester Mayoral Election 2017  

4th May 2017 | By Thomas Walton

NQ reporter Tom Walton spoke with Green Party Greater Manchester Mayoral Candidate Will Paterson during the count. Will Paterson was chosen as a candidate for...

3rd May 2017 | By nq_admin

The lighter side Politicians are prone to gaffs, just ask Ed Milliband’s bacon butty, but what comical capers have England’s mayors got themselves into?  ...

28th April 2017 | By Thomas Walton

A £300,000 project has been launched to steer young girls away from getting involved in street gangs. The aim is to offer them alternative activities such...

27th April 2017 | By nq_admin

Protestors have begun a hunger strike to “raise awareness of ‘unjust’ treatment of Palestinian political prisoners” by the Israel Government. The students from University of...

26th April 2017 | By nq_admin

In the second Mayoral interview of the week, we catch up with the Conservative nominee for the Greater Manchester Mayoral elections.  The Conservative leader of...

25th April 2017 | By dave porter

Police closed off Oxford Road for more than an hour today after an attempt to evict squatters from the former Cornerhouse building. Hundreds of people...

25th April 2017 | By nq_admin

Andy Burnham has taken an unusual approach to building his election manifesto. The Labour Party candidate for the Greater Manchester Mayoral elections has been asking...

25th April 2017 | By nq_admin

Loose Space is finally being evicted from the old Cornerhouse Cinema.  Earlier this month, the NQ reported that squatters had taken over the old abandoned cinema...

24th April 2017 | By nq_admin

More than 1,000 people attended Manchester's 420 celebration in Platt Fields Park on Sunday.  The event was in part to promote what many users claim are the...

21st April 2017 | By nq_admin

Christine Neary's husband and killer was sentenced at Manchester's Crown Court today.  James Neary, known as Jimmy, 46, of Moston pleaded guilty today, Friday 21 April, to the...

18th April 2017 | By nq_admin

The GMP are appealing for information after three men wearing balaclavas robbed several pubs in Salford with weapons, including a Samurai sword. Late on Sunday 9...

14th April 2017 | By nq_admin

A man who lured a 12-year-old boy to his house to play games after talking online, before sexually abusing him, was sentenced to 13 years in...

12th April 2017 | By nq_admin

The number of Councillors sitting on Manchester City Council will remain the same after the independent Local Government Boundary Commission published its final recommendations on new...

11th April 2017 | By nq_admin

7 April  9 April Spice, the once legal alternative to cannabis, is now plaguing the city of Manchester.  Greater Manchester Police have reported that Manchester is...

11th April 2017 | By nq_admin

A puppy that was only five-month-olds was stolen during a burglary on Hancock Street, in Stretford, a few weeks ago, Tuesday 28 March 2017.  Fortunately,...

10th April 2017 | By nq_admin

Greater Manchester became the first area of the UK to record domestic abuse in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT) as police take...