Manchester Labour

Future Jobs Fund Wrong Cut Wrong Time
Longsight Councillors Abid Chohan and Suzanne Richards, along with the Executive Member for Parks, Councillor Mike Amesbury, met with some of Manchester Parks Future Jobs Fund trainees recently to thank...

1,387 Police Axed Wrong Cut Wrong Time
Greater Manchester Police have announced that 1,387 police officer jobs will be axed due to the too far too fast Lib Dem – Tory Government cuts. At the local and...

£110 million of Tory Liberal Cuts for Manchester
As details of the scale of Tory Liberal cuts emerge one thing is clear - this is an unfair attack on the North, with funding being switched from Labour controlled...

Leaders Statement on Jobs
Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, said: “The unfairness of the government's financial grant settlement for Manchester, one of the five worst in the country, has been widely...

Government cuts to school sport funding
The Coalition Government has been accused of undermining the promises made to secure the 2012 Olympic & Paralympics Games by scrapping the school sport programme with less than two years...

First British Asian councillor appointed to the Executive
Councillor Sameem Ali has become the first British Asian councillor to hold an Executive position in the council. She has taken over the role of Executive Member for Employment and...

Manchester libraries buck the national trend
Following recent reports suggesting that visitor numbers to libraries are down across the board, Manchester appears to be bucking the national trend. A report from DCMS last week revealed that...

Manchester Free Swimming Offer
Disappointment has been felt around the country with news that funding from The ConDem Government for free swimming has been axed. The scheme focused on to two key age groups,...