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17th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Festivals to introduce deposit schemeInitially requiring a small deposit of £20 for Creamfields and £37.40 for Parklife. The rest of the payments are divided across the months leading up...
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...
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Save Stockport’s Pure 107.8FMIn 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...
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
The perfect Festival for students, Sick! Festival, returns to Manchester this summerIf you are a student in Manchester, it has been hard to avoid the banners placed along Oxford Road promoting Sick! Festival. To most, a...
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Manchester Town Hall at risk of closureA recent report has suggested that over 40% of the building needs to undergo immediate repairs to avoid the risk of the building deteriorating further....
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Mancunian Way to close for 48 hoursMancunian 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...
15th March 2017 | By jackwright
Bury libraries set to close down due to Government cutsBury Council has announced that the Greater Manchester town will have to terminate at least 10 of its 14 libraries in order to make savings...
15th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Bury Market fire thought to been started by cigaretteThe 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...
14th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Manchester’s Contact Theatre to close in April for refurbishmentBack in May 2016, Manchester City Council granted plans for the refurbishment of Capitals Contact theatre. Shortly after fundraising began, Arts Council England confirmed funding...
8th March 2017 | By helen heath
Manchester Police Museum recognised as ‘Hidden Gem’ by tourism bossesGreater Manchester Police Museum has been recognised as a ‘Hidden Gem’ by Visit England for ‘going the extra mile’. The museum was founded in 1981 ...
7th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Photography at MMU – Interview with Richard PageFamous photographers like Martin Parr, Peter Fraser and Brian Griffin influenced a photography course in the city of Manchester, especially in the late 1960s and...
6th March 2017 | By nq_admin
Charity stresses the importance of children understanding LGBT rightsA recent LGBT+ exhibition encourages children to attend to enable them to understand the struggles that the community has faced for generations. The exhibition ‘Never...
3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin
Video: Manchester marches against TrumpThousands 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...
3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin
Moazzam Begg urges action against anti-Islamic attacksMoazzam 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....
1st March 2017 | By helen heath
Manchester City Council Plans to Create UK’s First LGBT Community for Older PeopleManchester 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...
1st March 2017 | By nq_admin
Thugs taser man and rob him on Strangeways canal pathTwo violent criminals held a man down before tasering him and robbing him on a canal pathway in Strangeways, accoring to the GMP. The...
28th February 2017 | By Jack Colwell
‘Cracker’ the hero sniffer dog paws-es for retirement from fire serviceA ‘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,...
28th February 2017 | By nq_admin
Taxi driver fined for refusing to take blind passengerA taxi drive in Manchester has been fined £600 after he refused to pick up a blind passenger with their assistance dog. Rossendale Hackney carriage...
27th February 2017 | By nq_admin
Long-serving Manchester MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, dies aged 86Sir 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...
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...