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G4S security return to patrol Manchester’s student suburbs

Manchester City Council is implementing security in Fallowfield and Withington to control antisocial behaviour for the second year in a row

Interview: Green Party candidate Laura Bannister

We met with Green Party candidate for Withington, Laura Bannister, as part of our series of interviews with local candidates before the general election on June 8th

Withington hero who saved children from fire faces deportation

A Withington resident of 15 years who saved two children from his burning neighbour’s home faces being sent back to Zimbabwe following his asylum rejection by the Home Office

Two dead in Withington house fire

A Withington house fire has left two dead and has sparked a police investigation

Are letting agents doing enough for student tenants?

Are students really to blame for their poor standards of housing?

Preview: LightUp Fallowfield

The LightUp Fallowfield protest art installation aims to highlight key problems about safety and the dark

Austere approach to student noise problem is not working

As part of Community Week at The University of Manchester, we discuss what is being done to tackle negative neighbourly relationships in the biggest student areas

G4S to patrol Fallowfield during Welcome Week

Concerns have been raised over new security measures implemented by Manchester City Council and funded by the city’s universities to tackle anti-social behaviour in popular student area Fallowfield

Watch the Tapes: Are Cassettes Making a Comeback?

Cassette tape sales are the highest in decades. But what is drawing people back to the much-maligned medium?
Sophie Wyburd reviews a Middle Eastern gem in Withington

Thousands of pounds stolen from Withington café Fuel

Police are searching for information after robbers break in to Fuel cafe bar in Withington, stealing the weekend’s takings

Does your student house have ‘Britain’s ugliest carpet’?

Posh Flooring have announced a competition to find ‘Britain’s ugliest carpet’

Overheard at the University of Manchester, 16/2/15

The funniest things you’ve been saying around university this week

The Benefits of Boutiques

Natalie Proctor explains the benefits of boutique shopping and how to get 20% off Withington’s most fashionable hidden gem

Serial Withington sex attacker assaults four more women

Most of the women attacked have been students

On your bike, if you dare

Charlotte Green discusses how the potential ban on using headphones whilst cycling is symptomatic of a system determined to blame bikers for accidents, not motorists

Man sexually assaults five women in Withington

Offender targeted young women on their own at night

Police find body in Withington

Circumstances currently being treated as ‘unsuspicious’ by Greater Manchester Police

Gang invades house in Withington and cuts jewelry off occupants

Family left traumatised after gang attack

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