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Child poverty rates are rising in Greater Manchester
Analysis

Child poverty rates are rising in Greater Manchester

More children than ever are living in poverty, and numbers will continue to rise unless something is done.
ByByAnja Jungmayr
Acting up! 40 years of HIV activism
News

Acting up! 40 years of HIV activism

George House Trust has made their archives freely accessible to the public at Manchester Central library.
ByByEmma White
Greater Manchester’s collective history: Linda Carver, Save Ancoats Dispensary
Features

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Linda Carver, Save Ancoats Dispensary

Linda Carver was a member of the Ancoats Dispensary Trust, a local organisation set up to save the dispensary building from demolition and redevelop it into a cultural hub. While the original plans did not proceed, the building was saved.

We met in March to discuss the importance of Greater Manchester’s architectural heritage and her work to save a significant Victorian-era building.

This story is part of our generative inquiry into Greater Manchester’s shared heritage.
ByByKacy Preen
No Return to Austerity! People of Manchester take to the streets to campaign against the new cuts to benefits
News

No Return to Austerity! People of Manchester take to the streets to campaign against the new cuts to benefits

ByEmma White
From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal
Culture

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

ByZoe Hodges
Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people
News

Salford based sport league offers an inclusive space for trans and non-binary people

ByAnja Jungmayr

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Features

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Rose, Support and Action for Women’s Network
Features

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Rose, Support and Action for Women’s Network

Tell us about the work you do. Our work is essentially looking after women’s health and their general wellbeing, plus economic wellbeing. Because if your finances are not right they impact your health, and if your health is not right,…

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Child poverty rates are rising in Greater Manchester

Child poverty rates are rising in Greater Manchester

More children than ever are living in poverty, and numbers will continue to rise unless something is done.
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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Linda Carver, Save Ancoats Dispensary

Greater Manchester’s collective history: Linda Carver, Save Ancoats Dispensary

Linda Carver was a member of the Ancoats Dispensary Trust, a local organisation set up to save the dispensary building from demolition and redevelop it into a cultural hub. While the original plans did not proceed, the building was saved.

We met in March to discuss the importance of Greater Manchester’s architectural heritage and her work to save a significant Victorian-era building.

This story is part of our generative inquiry into Greater Manchester’s shared heritage.
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Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

Deliveroo Drivers: Mobile workers with a Mobile Union

Covid 19: face masks, boredom, Deliveroo and Zoom were some of the key features of that mundane, samey yet scary period. The use of face masks may have waned, but the popularity of food delivery services such as Deliveroo and Just Eat hasn’t. Food delivery riders are now a more common sight than postal workers; both professions carry a heavy load and involve long, hard hours but the main difference between them is that one workforce is supported by a large, established, wealthy union, the CWU. The other isn’t.
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Opinion

Manchester Five – is justice in a wig and gown or in orange paint?

ByByEzra Storme Ravenwood
On Friday 21 February 2025, Just Stop Oil protestors Daniel Knorr, Margaret Reid, Indigo Rumbelow and Ella Ward all were found guilty of the crime of ‘conspiracy to commit a public nuisance’. Noah Crane, just 19 years old, held in prison since August 2024 on this charge, was acquitted since there was no evidence specifically tying him to the crime on the day of the planned action.
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Westminster has failed Britain on Palestine. What can we do next?

ByByJames Taylor
The role of global protest since the beginning of Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza cannot be underestimated. Co-ordinated, international shows of solidarity have kept the issue relevant and on the front pages. Without feet on the ground in cities across the world there would likely not have been an ICJ hearing or investigation into the ongoing Israeli genocide. Subsequently, Westminster has found itself reluctantly debating a subject it ordinarily avoids.
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“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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Culture

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

From Mariupol to Manchester: How arts and culture are helping Ukrainians to heal

“When there is an air raid alarm, we stop performing and go to the shelters with the audience, then once it is over we pick up where we left off.”…

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Rochdale’s Breaking Barriers production company is raising the bar with new project ‘Elevation’

Rochdale’s Breaking Barriers production company is raising the bar with new project ‘Elevation’

On a very rainy Wednesday, off the back of an exceptionally sunny weekend, I made the trip to Blackstone Edge – a reservoir perched high above Rochdale on the border…

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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.

Child given detention for getting less than 90% on a test – psychology shows there are far better ways to motivate students
Friends of The Meteor

Child given detention for getting less than 90% on a test – psychology shows there are far better ways to motivate students

This week’s FOTM is republished from The Conversation. It addresses the recent reports that a child at Stewards Academy in Harlow, Essex, was punished for a grade below 90% on their maths homework.
ByByFriend of the Meteor
Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women
Friends of The Meteor

Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women

This week’s Friends Of The Meteor article is republished from The Conversation. It tackles the UK media narrative and the ideology pushed by those seeking to exploit the abuse of children for political ends.
ByByFriend of the Meteor
All Feedback is Good
Friends of The Meteor

All Feedback is Good

All feedback is good. Really, it is! But it’s what you do with it that counts. The defences we put up can hold us back, especially when they prevent us absorbing that feedback properly.
ByByAyisatu Emore