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Let’s End Poverty: Manchester joins national movement as British attitudes shift
News

Let’s End Poverty: Manchester joins national movement as British attitudes shift

The next online session takes place on 7 December
ByByAlice Toomer-McAlpine
Panto flash mob gather to save Oldham Coliseum building
Culture

Panto flash mob gather to save Oldham Coliseum building

The Oldham Coliseum closed its doors for the final time on 31 March this year with their emotional farewell performance, ‘Encore’. Last weekend, on what would have been the opening performance of the theatre’s renowned pantomime, members of the Save Oldham Coliseum Campaign Group formed a flash mob through the town in a bid to reopen the Fairbottom Street building.
ByByZoe Hodges
This is Greater Manchester: Bury
Features

This is Greater Manchester: Bury

This month we are in Bury, where photographer Gary Roberts found a place brimming with history and social change – for better or worse.
ByByGary Roberts
Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century
Culture

Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century

ByMike Butler
Who pays your MP: how much are Greater Manchester MPs earning from second jobs?
News

Who pays your MP: how much are Greater Manchester MPs earning from second jobs?

ByKacy Preen
This is Greater Manchester: Tameside
Features

This is Greater Manchester: Tameside

ByGary Roberts

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Features

The uncertain pirate
Features

The uncertain pirate

I first met Sam Conniff on board a pirate ship – an event on the Golden Hinde, organised for people to connect around the ideas in Sam’s book, Be More Pirate.  A great friend and I had gone to talk…

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This is Greater Manchester: Bury

This is Greater Manchester: Bury

This month we are in Bury, where photographer Gary Roberts found a place brimming with history and social change – for better or worse.
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This is Greater Manchester: Tameside

This is Greater Manchester: Tameside

Each month, photographer Gary Roberts is capturing life in one of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester. This is Tameside.
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Greenheys Remembered

Greenheys Remembered

A project funded by English Heritage, with volunteer support from the University of Manchester, revealed the links between archaeology, social history, and the lives of former residents.
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Opinion

“Let’s change the world together!”

ByByAnnette Wright
The Meteor spoke with ward councillor for Hulme, Annette Wright, about declaring a climate emergency in 2019, and the council processes that were needed to make it happen.
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Why I joined the Green Party

ByByEkua Bayunu
The Manchester Green Party stands for climate and social justice — unlike Manchester Labour.
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We must declare a biodiversity emergency here in Greater Manchester

ByByJames Walsh
As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and with the ambition to be a world-leading Green City Region, Greater Manchester must declare a Biodiversity Emergency just like it did for the Climate Emergency, says James Walsh.
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Culture

Panto flash mob gather to save Oldham Coliseum building

Panto flash mob gather to save Oldham Coliseum building

Led by actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, the jubilant and passionate group gathered in the Bank Top Tavern in fancy dress before parading up to where the Wow Garden used to be…

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Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century

Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century

When I set out to write a biography of Bill Leader, the legendary sound recordist, what I pictured myself writing about was the music, of course. Those early recordings of…

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Friends of The Meteor

The Friends of The Meteor category contains articles that have been published elsewhere and  selected by The Meteor team as worthy of sharing to our audience. They will generally have a Manchester or Greater Manchester focus and are from publications we trust and respect.

Co-op News reports on failures at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing
Friends of The Meteor

Co-op News reports on failures at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing

Three recent stories from Co-op News cover the criticisms levelled at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH). And why did they report on the social housing provider’s failures? Because the organisation was set up as a type of co-operative.
ByByGuest Writer
Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet
Friends of The Meteor

Glaciers in the Alps are melting faster than ever – and 2022 was their worst summer yet

For this week’s Friends Of The Meteor, we are republishing this article by a University of Salford academic, Neil Entwistle, whose research is in hydromorphology – the way that water interacts within its natural landscape.
ByByGuest Writer
RAPAR open letter to Stockport Council Leader re. concerns about safeguarding and security at Home Office subcontracted SERCO-controlled hotel
Friends of The Meteor

RAPAR open letter to Stockport Council Leader re. concerns about safeguarding and security at Home Office subcontracted SERCO-controlled hotel

For this week’s Friends Of The Meteor, we are republishing the open letter sent by RAPAR to the head of Stockport Council, regarding the squalid conditions at a hotel being used to accommodate asylum seekers.
ByByGuest Writer