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Community groups accuse leadership of Wai Yin Society of having ‘unusually close’ ties with CCPA consortium of Hong Kong community groups have accused the UK government’s flagship programme for welcoming Hongkongers of funding an organisation with alle…
City region is branded worst in Europe for eco-friendly transport“I’d hoped we could take a Bee bike to Salford,” said Sarah Rowe of the Clean Cities Campaign after meeting the Observer at Piccadilly station in Manchester. “But look.”Her app shows that…
Abdul Eneser described incident at Manchester Piccadilly as ‘most traumatic experience’A blind man who fell on to rail tracks and was nearly hit my a freight train is suing Network Rail for failing to put in place tactile paving to protect him.Abdul En…
Top UK music school says pandemic has hastened decline in pupils playing Marmite of woodwind worldDepending on your view, the recorder is an instrument of “incredible versatility” or a tool of torture that has terrorised primary schools for too many ge…
University taking disciplinary action against 11 students who occupied buildings during demonstrationsA group of Manchester University students face expulsion over a rent strike that saw more than 350 collectively withhold more than £2m.The university …
Survey of 236 young people caught up in 2017 blast shows 29% have not received any mental health support‘I was completely rejected’: Manchester Arena survivor recalls struggle to get therapyNearly one in three children and young people caught up in the…
Ellie Taylor, 15 at the time of 2017 terrorist attack, was shocked by how hard it was to obtain trauma counsellingManchester Arena attack: nearly a third of young survivors have not had professional helpEllie Taylor had been looking forward to the Aria…
Passengers faced average 30-minute wait, slightly worse than Manchester during 2022’s travel chaosPassengers flying from Birmingham airport experienced the longest delays in the UK last year, official figures show.Flight departures from Birmingham were…
Stuart Murphy says other cities in running but stresses chances of either northern city hosting opera companyLiverpool and Manchester are “really strong contenders” to be the new home of the English National Opera (ENO), its chief executive has said, a…
Guardian journalist and Cotton Capital special correspondent Lanre Bakare examines Black Mancunian history, beginning with the 1945 Pan-African Congress that took place in the city and shaped independence movements across AfricaThe Guardian journalist …