Anti-fracking campaigners host Gig at the Rig music festival at Barton Moss protest site
Northern Gas Gala and DJ Dave Haslam are involved in Gig at the Rig at Barton Moss fracking site
Manchester Sikh students tell William Hague ‘guilty must be punished’ over Amritsar massacre
Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons that military advice to India had only a limited impact on 1984 Amritsar massacre
Turning Piccadilly’s Mayfield Depot into nightclub will ‘ruin businesses and breed crime’, claims anonymous letter
Anonymous letters asks residents to raise concerns
Frack off! Protesters descend on Salford energy firm iGas to fight against controversial practice
Firm carrying out work at site off the Barton Moss Road
Silence in the court! Manchester lawyers stage walk-out protest against government cuts to legal aid
Protesters have gathered outside Manchester Crown Court
Students ‘ecstatic’ as Manchester University defies government cuts and pledges to cover bursaries
Government cut funding to National Scholarship Programme
Ukrainians gather in Manchester to show solidarity after Kiev protest ‘violently’ put down
President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign EU Association Agreement
Crooks and villains march against Manchester Pride in ironic protest to win back ‘the heart of the village’
The protest will start at Sackville Gardens
Thousands join social media crusade to get James Arthur banned from X Factor performance over homophobic rant
Arthur used homophobic slurs in rap and on Twitter
Whatever the problem, HS2 isn’t the answer: Protesters claim train will bring ‘narrow benefits’ to Manchester
The debate was held at Albert Square Chop House
Two Muslim converts due in court over brutal daylight slaying of Manchester’s Lee Rigby in Woolwich
Lee Rigby was hacked to death close to his Woolwich barracks