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17th August 2021 | By nq_admin

Live blog: RISE leadership summit at Man Met

 

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7th July 2021 | By Georgina Randall

The woman tackling Hulme’s poverty crisis: ‘I give out food packages after being failed by local authorities’

35-year-old Ameera Ramzan runs Heaven’s Angels, the Hulme-based outreach programme providing around 200 bags of food a week to local people in need. She has gone...

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2nd July 2021 | By Rory Gannon

‘It’s horrible knowing someone has been through your stuff’: tackling crime in Fallowfield

Fallowfield is home to a wide array of people and as a result, the ward is teeming with life. However, with more people brings the...

Sabah Ahmedi, Manchester's youngest Iman

1st July 2021 | By Georgina Randall

Meet one of the youngest Imams in Britain: a visit to the Darul Amaan Mosque

Sabah Ahmedi doesn’t have a white beard or wear a thobe (long robe worn by Muslim men) but follows all the disciplines of Islam, praying...

Art School Live

25th June 2021 | By George Crafer

IAMKYAMI and Alfie Sky talk to NQ ahead of Art School Live performance

Today is the first day of the Art School Live.  The free event will be live-streamed between 6 and 9 pm today and tomorrow.  The...

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20th June 2021 | By Tyrese King

Over five million people have applied for the European Settlement Scheme that closes at the end of the month

The deadline to allow European and Swiss citizens to stay in Great Britain is fast approaching, having only until the end of the month to apply for...

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18th June 2021 | By Claudia Waring

Refugee Week in Manchester is marked by Journeys Festival International with new art project

Journey’s Festival International is back with more enlightening stories hidden around the city. Interactive and illustrated posters have been dotted around Manchester bringing stories from people...

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18th June 2021 | By Hannah Terry

The festival run by students is back but things are a bit different this year…

Art School Live (ASL) has returned but with a twist as the festival will be live-streamed on 25 and 26 June, hosting an array of...

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17th June 2021 | By Paolo Granelli

Students march through Oxford Road to the University of Manchester for Palestine

University, college and high school students gathered yesterday to protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.  Starting at 4pm on the corner of Old Birley street outside...

11th June 2021 | By Tyrese King

Lockdown eases as UNESCO City of Literature Manchester put on the first ever The Festival of Libraries

The Festival of Libraries are running events all this month supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery Project Grants programme. The National Lottery Project Grants...

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10th June 2021 | By George Crafer

South Manchester group Football for Foodbanks is fighting food poverty with 6-a-side football fixtures

  A group called Football for Foodbanks is hosting 6-a side-football matches and supporting Manchester foodbanks.  The group, which caters to both men and women,...

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8th June 2021 | By George Crafer

Parents, students and fans gather for an afternoon at the lockdown rugby league

Saturday was the last day of the lockdown rugby league. Manchester Metropolitan played Manchester Rugby Club in the final game of the season.  The lockdown league,...

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6th June 2021 | By Tyrese King

Campaigners visit local secondary school encouraging open talks about race issues

Representatives of the Kids of Colour campaign visited Cedar Mount Academy in Gorton to a hold face-to face workshops exploring idenities and challenging sterotypical and prejudice views. “Described as...

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4th June 2021 | By George Crafer

Man Met Uni and Manchester Rugby in final game of Covid Lockdown league tomorrow

Manchester Met sports journalism students will present live coverage of the climax of the ‘friendly’ South Manchester Lockdown League tomorrow (Saturday), developed to put new...

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4th June 2021 | By Georgina Randall

More than 1,000 young people queue outside Moss Side walk-in clinic for first jab but there are ‘more people than number of vaccines’

Patients over 18 at The Arch Medical Practice in Hulme were invited with their housemates to receive their first Pfizer dose. In a text sent...

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28th May 2021 | By Vikram Jajuha

It’s the Big One! City face Chelsea in the Champions League Battle of the Blues

Manchester City have reached the Champions League final for the first time in their history, while Pep Guardiola has done so for the first time...

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28th May 2021 | By George Crafer

Plans to develop Hough End playing fields put on hold after outcry from campaigners

Manchester City Council has announced that it will effectively pause plans to redevelop Hough End Fields into a major sporting complex. The deadline for  public consultation,...

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27th May 2021 | By Vikram Jajuha

Spotkick heartbreak as Reds come up short in Gdansk

Underdogs Villarreal beat Manchester United 11-10 in a dramatic and very long penalty shootout in Gdansk after the Europa League final ended 1-1 after extra time. ...

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25th May 2021 | By Tyrese King

Authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Kamila Shamsie discus Lahiri’s newest novel in one of the latest event that the Manchester Literature Festival have put on for this month.

‘Whereabouts’, Jhumpa Lahiri‘s new novel is described by the Manchester Literature Festival as a “stunning new novel” about an “unnamed woman, in an unnamed Italian city” who...

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21st May 2021 | By Tyrese King

The Public Campaign for the Arts are leading the charge against proposed 50% funding cut to art-based subjects in higher education

The Public Campaign for the Arts are condemning the government’s plan to cut 50% of funding for the arts in higher education. The government plans to create a new separate category...