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Manchester City Council recruit Jon Snow ‘lookalike’ to help promote jabs drive this winter
The Game of Thrones lookalike stopped by the city last week to reminded locals that "Manchester's Winter is coming".
UK minimum wage to rise to £9.50, the Treasury has confirmed
The minimum hourly rate is set to increase from £8.91 to £9.50 in 2021 - a rise of 53p per hour.
Namii: The new Vietnamese-style restaurant opening in Manchester
Namii Kitchen & Cocktails will take over the space in Manchester city centre this autumn.
NHS staff will be forced to have two jabs or lose jobs
Health groups say plans would force trusts to either fire staff or remove them from the frontline at a time when the NHS is already chronically understaffed
Iceland to now give away unsold food for free in efforts to ‘reduce waste’
Bread, cakes, morning goods, chilled and fresh food is all included in the scheme, which is expected to divert around 1.3 million food items away from landfill a year.
Two popular Manchester nightclubs to back students’ drink spiking protests by closing on Wednesday
The Manchester-based boycotts form part of the wider 'Girls Night In' initiative.
Rishi Sunak rejects Marcus Rashford’s calls to extend free school meals over Christmas
Mr Sunak said that it was “right” that the government had “transitioned to a more normal way of doing things.”
Part-bar, part-shop: Inside Ad Hoc – the Northern Quarter’s newest addition
Ad Hoc is serving up wines and beers by the glass as well as offering them to take away to enjoy at home.
Review: Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks casts a spell at Manchester world premiere
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is flying across the country on a musical tour, opening at our very own Palace Theatre this week.
Manchester city centre primary school gets green light – at long last
The school will have 210 places for primary school-age children, as well as a 26-place nursery. It is expected to open in September 2023.