Celebrated historian Kenneth Pomeranz talks to The Mancunion’s Jonathan Breen about the importance of understanding China and Niall Ferguson

Pickpocket gangs operate in WHP, target 18-21 year olds

Complaints made after series of blunders during January exams

Current plans will see High Speed trains hurtling under Fallowfield’s student village

Race to raise money for breast cancer

Volunteers paint fences and clean graffiti for Interfaith Week

Prof wins prize for breakthrough work in nuclear physics

John Christensen, Director of Tax Justice Network supports direct action against tax-dodging companies

Hattie Pearson set for stardom after bagging prestigious prize

10% of students in the UK take ‘cognitive enhancing’ drugs

University of Leeds student newspaper published an interview with BNP leader

Teams made it to Germany, Switzerland and Poland in Jailbreak 2012

UK’s largest mobile network provider launches next generation of service

excess US coal from switching to shale gas exported to UK, Europe and Asia

Police raid 13 houses across Stockport and North Wales in drug operation

Manchester City Council and NHS launch shisha health awareness campaign in effort to publicise dangers of smoking shisha

Facebook pages created for Manchester university students to tell all their shocking stories

Police are appealing for information about an assault on a homeless man in Whitworth Park last month

George Galloway is suing the NUS after they referred to him as “rape denier” and banned him from speaking at their events

A man was remanded in prison for five months on a charge of rape after a mistake was made processing his DNA for an unrelated incident