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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jim, Caring and Sharing Rochdale
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Greater Manchester’s collective history: Jim, Caring and Sharing Rochdale

Jim works for Caring and Sharing Rochdale, a community organisation which exists to support and empower vulnerable people of diverse ethnicities in Rochdale and surrounding areas. We first met Jim at Rochdale’s 7th Annual Black History Month Celebration event, hosted by Caring and Sharing Rochdale.

This conversation forms part of our generative inquiry into Greater Manchester’s shared heritage.
ByByAlice Toomer-McAlpine
2024 General Election results for Greater Manchester
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2024 General Election results for Greater Manchester

We stayed up all night to see the results, and here they are! The polling predictions and exit polls got it right, and Greater Manchester has become a Tory-free zone with 25 Labour and 2 Lib Dem seats.
ByByThe Meteor Team
Greater Manchester exit poll predictions
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Greater Manchester exit poll predictions

Voting has ended, and the exit polls predict a Labour landslide. The first results from the counts are expected from 11.30pm, with the first Greater Manchester constituency declaring after 1am.
ByByKacy Preen
Rochdale’s Breaking Barriers production company is raising the bar with new project ‘Elevation’
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Rochdale’s Breaking Barriers production company is raising the bar with new project ‘Elevation’

ByAnja Jungmayr
Greater Manchester MPs who are stepping down before the 2024 General Election
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Greater Manchester MPs who are stepping down before the 2024 General Election

ByKacy Preen
2024 Greater Manchester local election results – in graphs
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2024 Greater Manchester local election results – in graphs

ByKacy Preen

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You told us you were interested in more stories on Greater Manchester’s heritage – here’s your chance to get involved
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You told us you were interested in more stories on Greater Manchester’s heritage – here’s your chance to get involved

When we asked people across Greater Manchester what justice means to them earlier this year, the area’s history came up repeatedly.  From “Manchester’s radical history”, to the Chartist movement, to institutions like the People’s History Museum and the Manchester Bee,…

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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

Black Lives Matter: Greater Manchester is not innocent

ByByGuest Writer
Today the trial hearing of the four ex-police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd begins in the US, whilst Mancunians demonstrate this evening as part of a national day of anti-racist solidarity. But incidents of institutional racism that have taken place in Greater Manchester in recent years remind us that there is still much work to be done here.
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Lessons from Leigh

ByByBen Beach
Ben Beach argues that in order to revive itself in places such as his hometown of Leigh, the left needs to engage with the grassroots organisations that are currently doing vital community work and re-cement itself as a force for practical, everyday change.
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Does the Mayfield proposal offer the radical change Manchester desperately needs or will the city be left unsatisfied?

ByByGuest Writer
Plans to rejuvenate the derelict Mayfield Depot offers a glimpse of hope for the city centre with promises of new homes, offices and a park to boot. But there are fears that the average resident could be priced out of the space and the green measures promised do not go far enough to protect the […]
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Culture

Review: Encore Coliseum

Review: Encore Coliseum

Both Act 1 and Act 2 began with two of its famous pantos; a bright, vibrant beginning to what was a rollercoaster of emotions. First Act comics Justin Moorhouse and…

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“Lipstick on the pig of austerity” – Equity’s view on the Levelling Up agenda that’s decimating the arts

“Lipstick on the pig of austerity” – Equity’s view on the Levelling Up agenda that’s decimating the arts

https://youtu.be/hKL4HyZ01fs It began to snow as press gathered outside Arts Council England’s Manchester base, waiting for an update on the fate of Oldham Coliseum, which has announced it will close…

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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.

Manchester bomber was a UK ally
Friends of The Meteor

Manchester bomber was a UK ally

Salman Abedi and his closest family were part of Libyan militias benefitting from British covert military support six years before he murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017. He is likely to have been radicalised by his experience.

Part 1 of Declassified UK’s investigation into the Manchester bombing.
ByByGuest Writer
Andy Burnham announces new taskforce to save Oldham Athletic Football Club
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Andy Burnham announces new taskforce to save Oldham Athletic Football Club

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham announces new taskforce for supporter-led football with plans to put fans in control of crisis hit Oldham Athletic
ByByGuest Writer
Sunak’s choice: to support the banks and their ill-gotten gains or to save the people from poverty
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Sunak’s choice: to support the banks and their ill-gotten gains or to save the people from poverty

Economist Richard Murphy explains how quantitative easing really works, and how it benefits the banks and not the people of Greater Manchester struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
ByByGuest Writer