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Fallowfield

16th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Is Fallowfield’s student culture dying?

Manchester has a thriving student population with over 85,000 students spread across three universities within the city. Like any other city, Manchester has areas in...

Pure FM

15th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Save Stockport’s Pure 107.8FM

In Stockport, award winning community radio station Pure 107.8FM is facing closure unless a new financial backer can be found. Since its first broadcast in...

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15th March 2017 | By nq_admin

The perfect Festival for students, Sick! Festival, returns to Manchester this summer

If you are a student in Manchester, it has been hard to avoid the banners placed along Oxford Road promoting Sick! Festival. To most, a...

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15th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Manchester Town Hall at risk of closure

A recent report has suggested that over 40% of the building needs to undergo immediate repairs to avoid the risk of the building deteriorating further....

Mancunian Way

15th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Mancunian Way to close for 48 hours

Mancunian is to be closed over the weekend of 25-26 March for its annual maintenance inspection. Commuters are being reminded to plan ahead and prepare for...

Bury library

15th March 2017 | By jackwright

Bury libraries set to close down due to Government cuts

Bury Council has announced that the Greater Manchester town will have to terminate at least 10 of its 14 libraries in order to make savings...

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15th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Bury Market fire thought to been started by cigarette

The otherwise bleak northern town of Bury boasts the title of UK's best market with Bury Market. The market is a potential cultural capital of...

Contact Theatre

14th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Manchester’s Contact Theatre to close in April for refurbishment

Back in May 2016, Manchester City Council granted plans for the refurbishment of Capitals Contact theatre. Shortly after fundraising began, Arts Council England confirmed funding...

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8th March 2017 | By helen heath

Manchester Police Museum recognised as ‘Hidden Gem’ by tourism bosses

Greater Manchester Police Museum has been recognised as a ‘Hidden Gem’ by Visit England for ‘going the extra mile’. The museum was founded in 1981 ...

MMU photography course leader

7th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Photography at MMU – Interview with Richard Page

Famous photographers like Martin Parr, Peter Fraser and Brian Griffin influenced a photography course in the city of Manchester, especially in the late 1960s and...

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6th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Charity stresses the importance of children understanding LGBT rights

A recent LGBT+ exhibition encourages children to attend to enable them to understand the struggles that the community has faced for generations. The exhibition ‘Never...

Donald Trump protest (photo by Miles Casey)

3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin

Video: Manchester marches against Trump

Thousands of Mancunians marched against Donald Trump last February. The protest has been called by campaigners who strongly disagree with the President’s travel ban on nationals...

Bryony Hiscock and Moazzam Begg, at the Mechanics’ Institute

3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin

Moazzam Begg urges action against anti-Islamic attacks

Moazzam Begg, a former detainee of Guantanamo Bay, was speaking at an event with Stand Up to Racism at the Mechanics Institute last night, Thursday 2 March....

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1st March 2017 | By helen heath

Manchester City Council Plans to Create UK’s First LGBT Community for Older People

Manchester City Council has announced plans to create a community that will protect Manchester's LGBT residents from discrimination, and provide an area in which they...

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1st March 2017 | By nq_admin

Thugs taser man and rob him on Strangeways canal path

Two violent criminals held a man down before tasering him and robbing him on a canal pathway in Strangeways, accoring to the GMP.   The...

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28th February 2017 | By Jack Colwell

‘Cracker’ the hero sniffer dog paws-es for retirement from fire service

A  ‘Cracker’ at sniffing out evidence from burnt-out buildings is hanging up her paws for good following a decade-long career. Greater Manchester fire dog Lucy,...

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28th February 2017 | By nq_admin

Taxi driver fined for refusing to take blind passenger

A taxi drive in Manchester has been fined £600 after he refused to pick up a blind passenger with their assistance dog. Rossendale Hackney carriage...

Sir Gerald Kaufman MP

27th February 2017 | By nq_admin

Long-serving Manchester MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, dies aged 86

Sir Gerald Kaufman MP, one of Manchester's longest standing MP's, has died aged 86 The Manchester Town Hall flag is being flown at half mast...

Can You Hear Me Now magazine, credit: Olga Yakushenko

27th February 2017 | By nq_admin

Can You Hear Me Now: Is the music industry a hostile place for women?

A new magazine has been launched in Manchester hoping to raise awareness of the issues women face within the music industry. Olivia Havercroft, 27, the...

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27th February 2017 | By nq_admin

VIDEO: MMU students help Reclaim The Night

Last Thursday, 23 February, over 2,500 women and men of all ages and races marched through Manchester to "Reclaim The Night." The annual march was filled...