Simple COVID-19 home-test under development by Manchester biotech team
World-leading Manchester biotech researchers are working towards developing a test for COVID-19 that could be used at home like a domestic pregnancy test.
This prototype...
Ideas Worth Exploring -Join Manchester’s National museum of democracy for digital discovery
Ideas Worth Exploring is a digital door through to People’s History Museum’s (PHM) events programme and learning projects.
It has been curated by the team from the national museum of democracy to ensure that people...
Brand new 10-week creative challenge for young people in Manchester to launch next week
Next week sees the launch of a brand new creative project devised by Manchester Libraries for young people to get involved in from their own...
Sale mum’s Gladrags and bin bags for Maggie’s cancer charity
Sale mum Louise Wheeler is taking part in a novel fundraising idea from Maggie’s Manchester to help to encourage donations after the cancer support...
What will the new normal look like?
As we begin to slowly emerge from the lockdown next month, we are being told that it is unlikely that we will be returning...
Coronavirus: huge effort by all the people needed in next phase of ‘epic struggle’
On March 17, before he became ill with coronavirus, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, declared: “We are engaged in a war against the...
There is a single species that is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic – us...
" As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity – particularly our global financial and economic...
Andy Burnham calls for a “standards-led” release from lockdown
THE MAYOR of Greater Manchester has called on the Government to adopt a standards-led approach to reopening businesses after the lockdown, saying that a...
Mission to get Manchester moving amid lockdown
Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth champions including Staycey Copeland and Diane Modahl are among local stars joining a Greater Manchester wide campaign to #KeepGMMoving and...
Over one million airline meals saved to feed vulnerable people across the North West
Over a million frozen aeroplane meals that were marked as food waste have been saved, and will now go to feed those living in...