{"id":7552,"date":"2012-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancunion.manchestermediagroup.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/news-in-brief-12th-november\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T01:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T00:49:34","slug":"news-in-brief-12th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2012\/11\/08\/news-in-brief-12th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"News in brief &#8211; 12th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Rylands library wins top tourism award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Rylands library in Deansgate has been named Manchester\u2019s \u2018Large Visitor Attraction of the Year\u2019 at the city\u2019s annual tourism awards.<\/p>\n<p>The building, which was reopened in 2007 after a \u00a317m transformation, was described by judges as progressive and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>It was originally built in the 1890s by Mrs Enriqueta Rylands in memory of her husband John, Manchester\u2019s most successful cotton tycoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester Fire Brigade deals with over 500 calls on Bonfire Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Fire and Recue Service received around 500 incident calls in just 4 four and a half hours last Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>At least nine people were seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>One of these was a teenager who was left with a badly burned face after playing with an aerosol around a lit wheelie bin with five of his friends when it exploded.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 year old was taken to Oldham Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buses powered by household waste to take to Manchester\u2019s streets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arriva Bus UK has invested \u00a32m in a fleet of 21 eco-friendly buses.<\/p>\n<p>They are powered by gases produced by landfill sites and will hit the streets of Manchester next year.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Cooper, managing director of Arriva UK Bus, said: \u201cThe buses have been specially designed for the British market and, as they run on bio-gas, provide a carbon-neutral solution to the environmental challenges we face as a transport provider in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top tourism award, buses fuelled by household waste and 500 calls to the fire brigade on Bonfire Night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3697,3698,2263],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}