The new head of OFFA has promised to encourage wider participation at UK universities

Manchester to get new super-fast 4G mobile network; Man charged over suspected gas explosion; New Prof at Man Met

Antonia Jennings looks into the problem of immigration and population decline.

The embarrassment of Britain’s failing railways

Ben Green talks about his political hero, Jacques Delors

Sounding off about the gripes and irks of everyday life

Every year students are being scammed, but what is anybody doing about it?

Two Manchester policemen charged with giving false evidence leading to arrest of a man

0.1 percent increases in graduate employment rate, private spending

A man has been jailed after a violent rampage, “all over a spilt drink”

‘Father of computer science’ gets own edition of popular board game

50th anniversary of revolutionary novel celebrated at the John Rylands Library

One year after his death, the 21-year-old’s family appeal for the criminal to come forward

Britain’s top research universities will receive £10 million from the government in order to open up research to the public

The Manchester Green Party has described Owen Patterson as “last sort of person we want in charge of the environment”

Athletes perception of time changes when they are competing, according to research published by UCL

Dr Bart van Dongen, of the University of Manchester, has warned that a collapsed ice wall in Siberia is releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than was previously thought

Police release identities of Greater Manchester’s most dangerous criminals, as a part of month-long crackdown Operation Harvest

Name: Phoebe Chambre Age: 22 and a bit Occupation: Music Student and Mancunion Books editor What are you reading? I’m in the final third of a book called The Instructions by Adam Levin. I read his short story collection (Hot Pink) which came out earlier this year in a very nice textured hardback and was […]

Name: Steve Jones (ex-editor of The Mancunion’s Literature and Film Section) Age: 21 Occupation: pre-MA parent moocher Steve Jones, question-asker of Book Club supreme, what are you currently reading (present question notwithstanding)? I am re-reading an accessible English prose version of Virgil’s Aeneid. Where have you been reading it (train, bus, beach, bath, internet, juice […]