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“The show must go on”: Oldham Coliseum’s alumni come together in bid to save theatre

By Zoe Hodges | 4 February, 2023Culture

The theatre and arts world was rocked on Tuesday by the decision to cancel all shows at Oldham Coliseum Theatre after their funding bid to the Arts Council was rejected. Some of the industry’s leading lights have spoken out about the decision and reflected upon what the historic venue has done for them over the years.

Andy Burnham is on stage at this is the North conference, addressing the crowd using a persuasive gesture. He wears black-rimmed glasses, a dark suit jacket and white shirt (no tie).

“We are going to make 2023 a fightback year. We need to change the conversation.”

By Gary Roberts | 1 December, 2022News

Wednesday 30 November saw local leaders gather at Friends Meeting House for the sixth annual meeting of The People’s Powerhouse. Those in attendance included Andy Burnham, Nazir Afzal, Bev Craig, Steve Rotherham, Tracy Brabin and Oliver Coppard. The Meteor went along to hear what they had to say.

Photograph of newly-built residential towers in the Manchester skyline, against an overcast but bright sky.

Block To Block: a film asking who really benefits from Manchester’s property boom

By Katy Preen | 27 November, 2022Features

Joe Malamed’s new film looks at the effects of property investment in Manchester on the people who actually live here.

A montage of images from the Ways Forward 2022 conference, featuring speakers and attendees.

Ways Forward 2022: Can we co-operate our way to climate justice?

By Katie Johnson | 6 November, 2022News

The Ways Forward Conference 2022 in Manchester offered workshop discussions, panel sessions and plenaries around the role of co-ops in the current global climate crisis, including local action from energy to development.

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Co-ops and climate justice: Preview of October’s Ways Forward 2022

By Alice Toomer-McAlpine | 30 September, 2022Friends of The Meteor

More than 150 co-operators are due to gather in Manchester to discuss community-led responses to the global heating crisis

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The rising costs and lost life chances of living in temporary accommodation

By Conrad Bower, Nick Prescott | 20 May, 2022Features

Revealed: homeless households in Manchester see a 42% increase in the time spent living in temporary accommodation in just two years, while the cost to the council goes through the roof.

The Meteor speaks to people living in the limbo land of temporary accommodation, and asks what is the alternative?

Land commission Liverpool

The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs 

By Guest Writer | 13 May, 2022Friends of The Meteor

In 2020, Liverpool became the first city in England to set up a land commission.  Researchers Jonathan Silver & Tom Gillespie track the widespread enclosure and privatisation of public land in preceding decades and highlight the power of democratic decision-making to force developments to serve the communities they are built in. When Boris Johnson sold […]

Manchester urban diggers sat on allotment

Urban gardeners – seizing the means of food production and loving it

By Gary Roberts | 7 May, 2022Features

With the cost-of-living crisis driving up food prices and concerns rising about the negative affects of modern agriculture on the climate and environment, more people are considering growing their own food.

Gary Roberts talks to urban gardeners in Manchester about the benefits growing your own food can bring.

Bev Craig

Bev Craig announces ambition for a ‘Real Living Wage’ Manchester

By Alex King | 21 February, 2022News

Laying out her vision for the city for the first time as leader of Manchester city council, Bev Craig said social value should be an ‘approach that we all take’, starting with a Real Living Wage.

Can a GM Land Commission create a more equitable and sustainable development agenda?

By Conrad Bower | 12 February, 2022Features

Andy Burnham promised a Greater Manchester Land Commission in his manifesto. We talk to Neil McInroy, chair of the Liverpool Land Commission, to see what the process can offer GM, and report the latest developments on Burnham’s promise.

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