Manchester Blog

The White Room in Manchester has launched a free course aimed at helping 18-24 year olds start in the media sector by designing original iPhone applications. The course is backed by Manchester Council, The Cornerhouse and Manchester Metropolitan University. And it will also teach a range of business skills Over $3bn worth of mobile phone [...]

This is an interesting concept, and they’re looking for people from Manchester too. Dinner Date producers are asking us Mancunions some key questions: Are you single? Are you looking for love? Do you love good food? If you can answer yes to those 3 questions then ‘Dinner Date’ sounds like a no-brainer. Dinner Date is [...]

Well, it’s a done deal. Heaton Park will have a new sports development. Of the 3 councillors I contacted 1 replied immediately and one after they’d attended the planning meeting. As to what they said… Both councillors made the point that the development was part of the Restoration Masterplan for Heaton Park agreed by English [...]

Heaton park is still under threat as the Manchester Town Hall planning committee meet to rubber stamp the recommendation by the town planners to allow the go ahead of a sports complex at Heaton Park. This is the continuing struggle of the council in what seems to be a concerted effort to use the green [...]

Speed cameras for a road that sees very little traffic seems very strange. For some months we’ve been driving up Victoria avenue, from the Heaton Park end, and seen the huge poles that look like fat lamp posts. Then overnight they were transformed into camera gantries with an arm extended over the road way with [...]