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Animal Rebellion protestors seated on the floor of a supermarket milk aisle

Meet the animal rights activists fighting for a plant-based food system

By Alex King | 7 September 2022News

Animal Rebellion staged a protest against dairy products at a supermarket in Manchester last weekend. Alex King spoke to them to find out more about their campaign.

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The Meteor is changing – and you can be a part of it

By The Meteor Team | 19 July 2022Editorial

We’re relaunching with a focus on our members and what matters to them.

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Meteor reporters reflect on a year dominated by Covid-19

By The Meteor Team | 23 March 2021Features

Today is the anniversary of a very strange Covid-19 lockdown year. Six Meteor reporters reflect on working through the pandemic and the challenges faced.

Manchester's teachers and Co-op Academies Trust clash over school safety

Manchester’s teachers and Co-op Academies Trust clash over school safety

By Alex King | 19 November 2020News

Workers at Co-op Academy Manchester write to headteacher and the Co-op Academies Trust calling for school closures and better working conditions, while Andy Burnham lends support for partial closures under a “tier system” during the winter.

Ryebank protestors

Protestors blast Manchester Metropolitan University for attempting to fence off Ryebank Fields

By Alex King | 10 November 2020News

Manchester Metropolitan University workmen attempted to put up permanent fencing around Ryebank Fields yesterday morning allegedly because of the presence of “potentially hazardous material”. Protestors argue hazardous material is buried deep underground, and that MMU’s planned development and resulting disturbance of the land is the real cause for concern.

Dr Erinma Bell, Lamin Touray

‘Positive Energy Always Creates Elevation’: Q&A with peace activist Dr Erinma Bell

By Guest Writer | 30 October 2020Features

Lamin Touray interviews Dr Erinma Bell, a Rusholme-born Nigerian who was the first woman to have a statue of herself on display in Manchester Town Hall as a tribute to her work of reducing gun and gang crime in Manchester.

Can Greater Manchester’s planning committees keep up with the pace of advertisement technology?

Can Greater Manchester’s planning committees keep up with the pace of advertisement technology?

By Katy Preen | 25 October 2020Features

Local councils are being overruled by central government on decisions regarding planning applications for LED billboards in public spaces. Check out the accepted and rejected digital billboards in your area on The Meteor’s interactive map.

Urgent need to prioritise anti-racism in Greater Manchester schools

By Dale Anne McAulay | 10 October 2020Features

Report highlights racism in Manchester schools with problems of lack of teacher racial literacy, a too ‘white and narrow’ curriculum, institutionally racist police in vulnerable schools and outdated school policies.

Manchester ‘collective solidarity’ protest demands end of hostile environment and harassment of refugees and asylum seekers

By Noora Mykkanen | 24 September 2020News

Human rights campaigners in Manchester are protesting the re-opening of Immigration Registration Centres which had been closed due to Covid-19, and have joined a nationwide call for Leave To Remain to be granted to all undocumented migrant people.

Block of flats with cladding on them. Over 80% of Manchester’s private sector high rises with Grenfell-type cladding not yet removed

Over 80% of Manchester’s private sector high rises with Grenfell-type cladding not yet removed

By Alex King | 12 September 2020News

More than 80% of private sector accommodation with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding in Manchester has not had it removed, as Manchester city council’s Executive approve a new Private Rented Sector Strategy and extend licensing scheme for private landlords across the city

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