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16th January 2024 | By Thomas Why

Plans unveiled to build Manchester’s tallest ever Skyscraper

Plans have been revealed to build a new 76 storey skyscraper featuring 780 apartments next to the Deansgate Square apartment buildings. 

15th January 2024 | By Amber Brooks

New strategy put in place after youth homelessness rises 57% in the last five years

Help is being offered to young people in need of accommodation in new strategy

15th January 2024 | By Martha Norris

Manchester’s newest way to fight loneliness  

The successful Timeleft app is coming to Manchester to help with the growing problem of loneliness and is their way of changing this growing trend....

11th January 2024 | By Thomas Why

Historic Hulme pub to be brought back to ‘original grandeur’

The historic pub and music venue, previously known as the Junction Hotel on Rolls Crescent is set for a regeneration scheme for the first time following its closure in 2016.

9th January 2024 | By Martha Norris

Manchester’s first LGBTQ+ housing development for the older community

Great Places is set to plan the UK’s first housing association purposely built for the older LGBTQ+ community in Manchester’s leafy Whalley Range.   The...

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8th January 2024 | By Anna Klekot

Latest plans for Manchester’s new arena spark backlash from councillors

Councillors concerned over late opening times of new music venue in Ancoats

8th January 2024 | By Anna Klekot

Redevelopment of Fallowfield campus deferred due to residents objection

A united decision defers the demolition of a popular student campus in South Manchester. Long-term residents and student are objecting the redevelopment of the campus...

8th January 2024 | By Anna Klekot

“Stevenson Square shambles”: new anti-terrorist blocks branded an eye-sore

Stevenson Square's new addition of bollards and concrete blocks for protection.

8th January 2024 | By Osaro Ojo

Researchers organise legal walk in Manchester to raise migration awareness at sunset

Researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University organised a unique event to raise awareness about the city’s rich history of migration.   The ‘Legal Walk for Migration’ saw...

8th January 2024 | By Osaro Ojo

GMP tackle Christmas robberies, arrest 27 in Operation Calibre

GMP intensified their actions to tackle Christmas robberies after arresting 27 people during the National week of Operation Calibre in Greater Manchester GMP increased patrols...

8th January 2024 | By Makenna Ali

NHS needs international medical graduates as they demand better wages and conditions

Junior doctors are demanding higher wages as they take to the streets for the longest industrial action in NHS history and among the junior doctors...

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19th December 2023 | By Martha Norris

Christmas conscious as shopping needs to be made sustainable with the climate crisis. 

With Christmas right around the corner, the cost-of-living crisis hitting everyone’s purses this is how charity shops become the heroes of a sustainable and low-cost Christmas....

18th December 2023 | By Meg Jones

Manchester Protesters Take to the Streets: A Call for Change

Following the decision during the ‘Make Amazon Pay’ summit to strike globally on Black Friday, Manchester held their strike along with handmade signs and flyers....

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6th December 2023 | By Makenna Ali

Local activists claim “the system is by nature divided by rich and poor and gender baselines”

Feminist Socialist Alternative took to Oxford Road in Manchester to mark the United Nation’s international day for the elimination of violence against women. Socialist Alternative...

5th December 2023 | By Meg Jones

Dead Women Walking: Manchester murder march in remembrance of lives lost to the ones they love

Local women gathered in the city centre and marched single file while reading out the names and ages of domestic violence victims who have lost...

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2nd December 2023 | By Anna Klekot

Poignant Last Steps exhibition highlights the issue of dangerous driving in Greater Manchester

A pop-up exhibition has appeared on Market Street symbolizing the 25 lives lost due to dangerous driving on Greater Manchester’s roads last year . TfGM...

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1st December 2023 | By Martha Norris

Fallowfields named as bike theft hotspot. 

A report by Greater Manchester Police has revealed that bike thefts in the city are three times higher than 2021 with Fallowfield being the worst...

1st December 2023 | By Matthew Barber

Manchester festival announces Christmas show to help the homeless

After All festival has announced a Christmas show with all of the profits going to musicians against homelessness.

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28th November 2023 | By Thomas Why

“The numbers are going up” as Manchester city council initiate winter plan to aid rough sleepers

Manchester city council have recently announced its plan to help people sleeping rough in Manchester this winter as number of rough sleepers rises.

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22nd November 2023 | By Rebecca Mills

Manchester welcomes the UK Jewish Film Festival this November.

The 27th annual UK Jewish Film Festival returned to cinemas across Manchester. Featured venues included Parrs Wood Cineworld cinema in Didsbury, Home in the city...