News
AGMA inviting applications for not for profit sector »
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) is re-launching its grants scheme for the not-for-profit sector [...]
- Manchester’s International Festival-a resounding success says report
- Elbow pouring the pints at Manchester’s Food and Drink festival
- Volunteers and staff invited to celebrate Manchester’s Commonwealth Games anniversary
- Lib Dems tell Council to listen to Sure Start parents and stop wasting £251k on Temps
- United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has received an honorary degree from The University of Manchester
Culture
The People’s History Museum is working with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) on a funding [...]
Historian Michael Herbert who has been researching, writing and speaking aboutManchester’s radical [...]
Delegates from many different countries will be visiting an exhibition at Bankley Studios Gallery to [...]
Features
New councillor profile-Grace Fletcher-Hackwood
In the third of our series of profiles of new councillors we feature Grace Fletcher-Hackwood who was elected as Labour member for Fallowfield. Grace live on Wilmslow Road, right opposite Platt Fields and has been a Labour Party member and activist for almost ten years andworked on Ed Miliband's leadership campaign. She worked at Salford [...]
In pictures-70,000 flock to Manchester Day Parade
Overt 70,000 enjoyed the sunshine and watched yesterday's Manchester Day Parade as it snaked its way throughout the city centre. Manchester parade 2011 View more presentations from Insidethem60 Led by a giant galleon, taken from the city’s coat of arms, other highlights included a massive Gulliver, giant dragonfly, space rockets, mystical [...]
New Councillor Profile-Chris Paul
In the second of Inside the M60's profiles of new councillors elected to Manchester City Council-meet Chris Paul,Labour member for Withington. Chris was born 1958 in Worksop General Hospital,telling us that he narrowly missed out on being a Yorkshireman. He first came to Manchester in 1976 as a student where he gained a first in Geography. He [...]
We have to be an effective opposition says Lib Dems new leader
Marc Romsbottom, may have accepted the poisoned chalice of being Manchester’s Lib Dems new leader,as one Labour councillor put it, but he is determined to create a constructive opposition in Manchester “I have seen an autocratic and antagonistic Labour party that doesn't like to be challenged in Manchester and doesn't see any constructive [...]
New Councillor profile-Kevin Peel
Inside the M60 begins today a series of profiles on the new councillors who were elected to the City Council. Today it is the turn of Kevin Peel who was elected as Labour member for the City Centre Ward. Kevin is originally from Liverpool but has lived in Manchester for the last 5 or 6 years, mostly in the city centre. He has worked in a [...]