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7th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Exploring the lens: in-depth interviews with Mancunian photographers

Photography in the city. Such a broad statement and connotes so many things to mind, how do you start? Is it worth your time? If...

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7th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Changing faces of Manchester – Interview with Deniss Gimbickis

Manchester has changed. The city is unrecognisable compared to one hundred years ago when everyone wore suits and having a coffee shop down an alleyway...

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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...

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6th March 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Looking North exhibit

Featuring a mixture of paintings, sculptures and videos from artists across the North West of England, on paper Looking North seems to be the perfect...

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...

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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....

Lights at Amsterdam's Light Festival

3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Amsterdam’s Light Festival

Amsterdam is best known for its red light district and weed, but the organisers of the city’s winter Light Festival must have been smoking a...

Legion

3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin

TV Review – Legion: Episode 1

Marvel is everywhere. Television. Film. Games. You can’t escape, more-so you won’t want to escape with their newest tv offering, Legion, airing on screens at...

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3rd March 2017 | By nq_admin

Album Review – The Weeknd: Starboy

When he pulled out of Rihanna’s European Tour in March 2016 to record more music, The Weeknd shook up the conventional path of pop, for...

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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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1st March 2017 | By nq_admin

World dart champion to compete in darts tournament to raise money for local cricket club

Local Mancunian, Martin Howe, is hosting an 8-man darts tournament at Wythenshawe Forum to help raise funds for a local cricket club  Since 2011 Martin...

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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 Thomas Walton

MMU Sports scholar Dom Bryan picked for Rugby World Cup

A sports student from MMU clearly impressed coaches enough to make it into England's training squad for the 2017 University Rugby League World Cup. The...

MMU Swimming Team, photo credit: Alex Thurston

28th February 2017 | By nq_admin

MMU Swimming Team brings home gold at BUCS Nationals

BUCS Nationals Long Course- MMU Swimming team at Ponds Forge, Sheffield (17th/18th/19th February 2017) MMU swimming team claim one gold and two bronze medals at...

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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...

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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...

Art Battle

27th February 2017 | By nq_admin

Art Battle Manchester: making art accessible to the masses

Art Battle Manchester is about to hold its 10th edition, underneath Mancunian Way, at the Projekts skateboarding park, taking place on Saturday 6th May. Combining...