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Slade Hall in Levenshulme will open for a free one-day feminist festival this Saturday, with all welcome to attend.

Cuts have left Manchester City Council struggling to plug a £5.8 million overspend in its Adults Services budget as needs rise across the city.

Pitiful turnout cast doubt on the legitimacy of police and crime commissioners on a night where new candidate Lucy Powell easily held the Mancheste...

Hello Stoke-on-Trent City Council, why not look at ideas like this from Manchester for improving Hanley? http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnew...

Early results from referendums in major cities reveal little enthusiasm for idea pushed by David Cameron

Manchester narrowly voted against having a directly elected mayor last night as the Liberal Democrats were reduced to a rump of just nine out of th...

Members of a Moston residents’ group are threatening to take Manchester City Council to court over the decision to allow FC United to build their n...

This week the people of Manchester will make a decision that will change the face of the city for the foreseeable future. Along with 12 other major...

South Manchester Law Centre has won its right to a judicial review of Manchester City Council’s decision to end funding for specialist immigration ...

A nationally renowned law centre that has provided free and impartial legal advice to Manchester residents since the 70s is applying to take Manche...

THIS YEAR has seen the unfortunate deaths of two well known and well liked councillors, namely Bloomfield's Mary Smith and Marton's Jim Houldsworth...

Parents and campaigners opposed to the conversion of Chorlton High School into an academy are to lobby the school’s board of governors next Tuesday...

A comfy consensus has been reached on the merits of elected mayors, despite an absence of any real debate on the issue

A CASH storm has erupted after Blackpool FC owner Owen Oyston was paid £11m during Blackpool's Premier League relegation season.

This week we cover government contractors squirreling profits from public money into tax havens, electricians gearing up for wildcat strikes as...

Two Cameroonian asylum seekers, the playwright Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey, have been told by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) that they ...

Fujitsu workers in Manchester affiliated with the Unite union have voted in support of industrial action in a dispute over pay, working conditions ...

Welcome to Mule’s weekly news round up, where we bring you our pick of this week’s events. The government resorts to some unusual blue...

Last November, I wrote an article for MULE regarding the government’s attempts to “censor the language of violence coming from young people...

In the words of the city’s tourist board Marketing Manchester, today’s “I Love MCR” day will prove to the world how “the people of Manche...

The second part of Andy Bowman’s interview with Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 198...

Tubers Music, a monthly night of experimental music held at St. Margaret’s Church, Whalley Range promotes experimental and improvisational music ...

This week Kraak Gallery plays host to its second annual queer art show this August as an alternative event to Manchester Pride Festival. Expect thi...

Journalist James Fallah-Williams has ended his 19-day hunger strike after the UK Border Agency (UKBA) agreed to resume communications with his lega...

If it was predictable that the conditions in England’s urban areas would lead to social unrest at some stage, it was also predictable that the au...

Supporters of journalist and human rights activist James Fallah-Williams are to hold a solidarity vigil this evening to mark the fourteenth day of ...

Andy Bowman interviews Professor Gus John from the Moss Side Defence Committee about the Moss Side riots of July 1981   1981 was the year in which...

Manchester Magistrates Court has so far sentenced two men to prison terms after they were arrested and convicted of swearing during the disturbance...

In Manchester on Tuesday night thousands descended upon the city centre: some to loot, some to fight the police, some for the thrill. What happened...

Drove into Kenilworth this afternoon and saw a BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio car parked up and on air. Afternoon show making some cocktails i...