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Free Public Transit (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Members of the Greater Manchester Campaign for Free Public Transport in Oldham Town Centre Day. We argued our case repeatedly over the loudhailer, handed out around a thousand of our latest "Case for" leaflets and got around 200 people to sign our petition. We need to organise similar open air events throughout the country as a campaign and not just in Greater Manchester, if we are to put...
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The anti-fascist campaigner has been subjected to a torrent of hate on Facebook Police are guarding an anti-fascist campaigner who has received dozens of death threats following a right-wing rally in Manchester Julie Keller has been wrongly accused of disrupting a two-minute silence in honour of UK troops and is now receiving police protection. She is the target of a Facebook group entitled "Julie...
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Islamization Watch (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
At least 1,000 people are expected to attend two political demonstrations in Manchester city centre later. Members of the English Defence League (EDL) are to stage a protest in Piccadilly Gardens, campaigning against Islamic extremists. This has prompted a planned counter-protest by Unite Against Fascism (UAF). A man, believed to be heading to the protest, has been arrested on suspicion of distributing...
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Sky News (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
Police are investigating whether the fatal shooting of a father at his home in Oldham is linked to two recent murders in Greater Manchester.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
A father of two was shot dead on the doorstep of his home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Friday night. Police are treating the incident as a gang-related attack.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Man, 29, dies of chest wound after three shots fired as he opens door to investigate disturbance in Oldham A father of two died today after being shot at his front door in what is believed to be a gang-related attack. Amran Khan, 29, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was gunned down last night when he opened his door on hearing a disturbance. Three shots were fired at the victim and one of the bullets...
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Police are investigating whether the fatal shooting of a father at his home in Oldham is linked to two recent murders in Greater Manchester.
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Here Comes The GM Bus!! (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Now I could do a blog on the usual things, there is a adventure I could waffle about or I could find something else to talk about, to be honest I'm moving towards the second one. In fact the adventure idea is filling me with dread! So we do the something else!! Manchester has a orbital motorway (But then everyone already knew that!) and the M60 has little blue signs every 1/2 mile in other words Mile...
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Art Yarn (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Image: © Artyarn 2008 Oxfam Manchester have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative individual or group.... Last year Artyarn worked with Oxfam to produce a giant baby blanket to highlight the issue of maternal mortality and the MDG. We asked the people of Greater Manchester to knit patches for us to use in the blanket and had an amazing response. The target was 1400, and we achieved...
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Feeling Listless (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Museums This is one of my rare housekeeping posts. Now that the summer is drawing to close (oh it is, you know it is, look out of the window) I think it’s about time I got on with my other slightly dormant project of visiting all of places listed in Edward Morris’s Public Art Collection In North-West England. Looking over the places I’ve written about so far, I was surprised to see...
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Altrincham,
Birkenhead,
Blackpool,
Blackpool,
Bolton,
Burnley,
Carlisle,
Carlisle,
Chemicals,
Cheshire,
Chester,
Cumbria,
England,
Football,
Grasmere,
Greater Manchester,
How,
Kendal,
Knutsford,
Lancashire,
Macclesfield,
Manchester City,
Merseyside,
Port Sunlight,
Rawtenstall,
Rochdale,
Runcorn,
Salford,
Southport,
Sport,
Stalybridge,
Stockport,
The Championship,
The Premier League,
Whitworth,
Wigan
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Scribblings, Jottings & Musings (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
The Oldham Echo's decision to speak up for Merseyside from Greater Manchester is examined by Matt Finnegan on the Liverpool Confidential site ( http://www.liverpoolconfidential.com/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNwEiNwEmJwy6IHqjNwB6IA ). He quotes the regional secretary of Unite, Paul Finegan: " 'We were always up against it from the start, because we couldn't argue with the figures. Trinity paid lip...
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Scribblings, Jottings & Musings (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
It won't be long now. The Oldham Echo's move to its Greater Manchester base will be sealed at the beginning of August ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8129727.stm ): "The owners of Liverpool's two daily papers have confirmed that print production will be moved to [Oldham] at the start of August." The beeb's rather short piece went on to report: "From October, the Liverpool...
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