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- Manchester Uni May Lower Entry Requirements
- 16th May 2008
- Manchester University is considering lowering its tough entry requirements in an attempt to attract more students from underprivileged backgrounds. A report by the University’s vice-chancellor Alan Gilbert says that a new admissions system with a va...
- Manchester Gets Metrolink Go-ahead
- 16th May 2008
- Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has announced that the government will put £244 million towards the £382 million cost of Manchester’s Metrolink extension scheme. This means that the system’s long-awaited expansion can finally go-ahe...
- Manchester Prison Campaigner Found Dead
- 16th May 2008
- The pressure group Inquest has announced that prison campaigner Pauline Campbell has been found dead. It is believed that Mrs Campbell was found dead close to her daughter's grave in Cheshire. A spokeswoman for Cheshire Police confirmed that a body was f...
- Injured Police Officer Says Uefa Violence Was Frightening
- 16th May 2008
- An officer from Greater Manchester Police who was injured in Manchester’s Uefa Cup football riot said that he was lucky to escape serious injury in the violence. Trouble started in the city after a screen showing Glasgow Rangers Vs Zenit St Petersb...
- Uefa Cup Violence in Manchester Causes Champions League U-Turn
- 15th May 2008
- Manchester Council has abandoned its plans to put up big screens for next week's Champions League final after Scottish football thugs caused chaos in the city last night. A number of Glasgow Rangers fans - in the city to see their team play Zenit St Peter...
- The Tale of Two Cities and Eight Metropolitan Boroughs
- 18th April 2008
- Greater Manchester Metropolitan County was created in 1974 as an administrative entity. It was stated that the title Greater Manchester was largely a convenient entity created for practical administrative purposes such as gaining postal and political dis...
- The Life of Artist L.S Lowry
- 18th April 2008
- The renowned artist Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Stretford, Lancashire on November 1st in 1887. He died in Glossop; Derbyshire aged 88 years old on February 23rd 1976. It is said that his mother was disappointed to give birth to a boy as she c...
- How do you grade the Listed Buildings of Manchester?
- 18th April 2008
- There are forty-seven Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester that are seen as being of great importance to Great Britain’s history. A building that is Grade Listed cannot be demolished or substantially changed internally or externally w...
- Largest L.S Lowry Collection in Salford
- 18th April 2008
- During his life Laurence Stephen Lowry produced up to a thousand paintings and well over eight hundred drawings. L.S Lowry’s collection of work are known as being distinctive and focusing on urban landscapes with matchstick men as human figures. ...
- Forty-Seven Grade I Listed Buildings in Greater Manchester
- 18th April 2008
- Greater Manchester has a wealth of industrial heritage that is supported by outstanding industrial architecture. Grade I structures are those that are considered to be ‘buildings of exceptional interest’. The building or structure that bec...