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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....

Socialist Alternative Protests - Credit Makenna Ali

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...

Last Steps exhibition

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...

bike with red tires

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.

Rough sleeper on steps. Photo Credit: Yui Mok/PA Wire

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.

UK Jewish Film Festival 2023 Poster

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...

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19th November 2023 | By Makenna Ali

Modern Slavery is on the rise increasing homelessness in Manchester

Manchester Councillors have called for action to uncover modern slavery in the city as it is causing a rise in homelessness in Manchester. At a...

19th November 2023 | By Martha Norris

24-hour run in Manchester to raise money for homelessness.

A Manchester-based charity group set the challenge to run for 24 hours in order to raise money and create awareness for the increase in homelessness...

13th November 2023 | By Amber Brooks

Urban gardens help boost mood this winter

The iconic 'Sky-Garden' is open all year round to boost moods and provide green spaces to 'nature deprived people'

13th November 2023 | By Amber Brooks

‘We will remember them.’ Manchester City Center marks Remembrance Sunday in touching tribute. 

Manchester City Centre was crowded to remember those who fought for our country and those impacted by conflict across the planet since the First World War.

'Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building of a University.’ Drop Inn - Credit Makenna Ali

1st November 2023 | By Makenna Ali

University of Manchester raises awareness of their past involvement in slavery

As a part of Black History Month the University of Manchester held a drop-in session for their exhibit ‘Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building...

metal arches in Piccadilly Gardens, guarded by GMP

26th October 2023 | By Meg Jones

‘Operation Vulcan’s Now At Piccadilly Gardens In Attempt For GMP To Crack Down On Knife Crime

Greater Manchester Police are knuckling down on Knife crime with unavoidable metal detectors in the centre of Piccadilly Gardens.

19th October 2023 | By Thomas Why

‘We are trans and we are human’ chant Manchester trans rights protest in the face of adversity

Crowds of protesters filled the square outside of Manchester Central Convention Complex on Sunday in support of the trans community.  The protest was in response...

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham speaks a press conference at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak axed plans for HS2 to run from Birmingham to Manchester during his speech at the Conservative party conference.

5th October 2023 | By Ignacio Mcgregor

The verdict on HS2: ‘I think that it’s outrageous that Rishi Sunak is cancelling it while being in Manchester’

Manchester residents slam the Tories for the decision to scrap the extension of the HS2 line to the city