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Warehouse Project DJ plays Fallowfield house-party

Bondax, Preditah and Transmission Collective play house parties in Fallowfield on Saturday night

Thieves try distraction burglary on students

Fallowfield is located within a high risk area for crime such as burglary

Hosts to be punishable for partygoers’ actions

New legislation will also give councils power to temporarily evict repeatedly anti-social tenants, and ability to recover costs from unhelpful landlords

Students not told about asbestos in halls of residence

Freedom of information request reveals a number of residences contain deteriorated asbestos

Burglar in the bedroom

Girl returns home to find her front door open and a thief trapped in her bedroom

Fallowfield female jogger warning

Police appeal for information on a series sexual harrasment cases in Fallowfield

BOP returns to Fallowfield

Controversial night moves to 256

Trees planted in first campus orchard

The University of Manchester has planted its first orchard on campus. Forty students have helped to plant over eighty fruit trees around halls of residence both in the Fallowfield and Victoria Park campus’. Manchester-based social enterprise The Kindling Trust helped with the planting, which has been done in association with the Big Dig, a nationwide […]

Shower baptisms, Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ: the Korean church recruiting Manchester students

Andrew Williams investigates the World Mission Society Church of God, a mysterious Korean church hoping to convert you on your doorstep

Manchester’s Olympic legacy of sports facility closures

Plans to close Withington Baths and other local facilities have been met with strong opposition from the local community

Student 101: the rise of mobile phone theft

Emma Williams discusses the recent increase in stolen smartphones – and offers tips on how to avoid being part of the ‘brick’ club…
Wälhbar is a beacon of hope amongst the bars of Fallowfield

Police link sex attacks in student area

Police increase patrols in Fallowfield and Withington after two sexual assaults in the area

Jailed: the fast food worker who stalked and raped students.

As The Mancunion reveals that students are increasingly being targeted by sex attackers, rapist Asim Javed faces an indeterminate prison sentence for attacking two women in Fallowfield and Didsbury

Thieves dig 100ft tunnel to rob cash machine

Criminals spent six months digging a tunnel to a cash machine in Fallowfield to find only £6,000

Parklife Festival 2011

Manchester’s own end-of-exams summer festival returned with a sterling line-up, including names such as Chase and Status, Kelis and Mark Ronson.

Jailed: the fast food worker who stalked and raped students

Asim Javed faces an indeterminate prison sentence for attacking two women in Fallowfield and Didsbury. Joshua Carroll, Catriona Gray, Duncan Jaycock and Hannah Tosh report

Councillors clamp down on Fallowfield bars

New bars in the Fallowfield and Withington areas will face stricter licensing criteria under plans by councillors

Student assaulted in Withington

A 20-year-old female student was attacked in Withington last week as she made her way home from a night out. Police are warning students to take extra care when walking home alone.