IN PICS: Bez joins hundreds campaigning against homeless cuts in Manchester
Hundreds of anti-austerity protesters gathered to demonstrate their anger towards the government’s homelessness funding cuts in Manchester yesterday.
Women owe it to suffragettes to vote, claims People’s History Museum chief
The People’s History Museum commemorated the women’s suffrage movement last Saturday as part of International Women’s Day (IWD) – documenting the events before females were eventually granted the full right to an electoral vote in 1928.
Thatcher Museum plans are ‘utterly insensitive’, claims Manchester campaigner
Plans to build a £15million Margaret Thatcher museum would be ‘utterly insensitive’ given the ‘harsh’ austerity measures being imposed on the ‘bottom end of society’, argues a Manchester campaigner.
Manchester named world’s 14th most sustainable city ‘thanks to grassroots groups’
Manchester has been named the world’s 14th most sustainable city and community groups are the driving force behind it, according to an environmental campaigner.
Unison lead ‘austerity wrecks lives’ march in Manchester to oppose coalition cuts
Marchers, brought together by Unison, will assemble at Castlefield Arena on Liverpool Road at 11am tomorrow to protest against austerity
‘A fair deal for Salford’: City’s mayor launches petition to combat austerity after slamming government cuts
Mayor Ian Stewart calling for change