Manchester City Council cuts: Mental health, homeless and children in care targeted as options in clawback of £59m
Manchester City Council revealed details this morning of options available to address a funding shortfall of £59million citywide.
Piccadilly Pulse: Should we let 16-year-olds vote?
Following the youth select committee’s report on lowering the voting age to sixteen and introducing a compulsary politics GCSE. Mancunians agree it is time to make a change.
Pensioner, 87, arrested on suspicion of masturbating in Ramsbottom park
An 87-year-old man has been charged with outraging public decency in Bury – after allegedly masturbating in a park.
Children’s charity and The Sun get Manchester kids reading with book giveaway
Charity Save The Children aimed to ‘book the trend’ and boost kids reading ability by giving away free books at a Manchester school this morning.
ChildLine joins forces with schools in £1million appeal to tackle abuse and neglect across Greater Manchester
Esther Rantzen CBE was joined by basketball legend John Amaechi OBE at the launch of a £1million appeal for ChildLine’s latest service which aims to join forces with 980 Greater Manchester schools
Back to school: Twitter trend #TipsForYear7s highlights ups and downs of classroom life ahead of new year
Locally, nationally and worldwide, the older and (not necessarily) wiser have been offering their #TipsForYear7s.
British Gas branded ‘bullying hypocrites’ after wrongly charging Bolton businessman £17,000 – 100 times too much
British Gas were condemned as ‘bullying hypocrities’ today for filching almost £17,000 from a Bolton businessman’s bank account after officials accidentally overcharged him on his monthly bill.
Diabetes warning for parents to ensure schools are implementing new law so ‘no child misses out’
A new law is set to come into effect in September and schools across Greater Manchester will have to ensure they have individual healthcare plans and medical policies in place
LGBT Youth North West awarded nearly £500,000 to fight bullying and prejudice in Greater Manchester
The project, funded by a £473,123 grant from the Big Lottery Fund, hopes to reach 22,000 people aged between 13-25 across the region, focusing particularly on Manchester and Stockport
Barking up the right tree: Manchester eco group’s bid to make most of home-grown biofuel from Mother Nature
TreeStation provides woodfuel to Greater Manchester homes and businesses.
Can kids Handel Beethoven? BBC initiative to ‘open up world of classical music’ to Tameside children
Working towards Arts Award Explore, the children will be encouraged by a partnership involving Tameside Cultural Services, the BBC, a forum of the borough’s music teachers and Stone Soup, a Tameside Creative Industries organisation