Here’s a round-up of stories we haven’t had time to cover on the site this past week… John Leech tables Commons motion calling for Alan Turing pardon (BBC) Manchester Withington’s John Leech submitted the Early Day Motion and said people should sign an online petition protesting against Turing’s conviction. The gay computer pioneer was convicted

Manchester United has Total debt now 2011 £590.4m, up from 2009 figure of £566.1m. While Peacock debt was of £240m. Which company have gone into administration, this can't be fair.

Manchester ‘mole gang’ escapes with just £6,000 after 100ft tunnel heist Gang may have been left out of pocket by having to hire expensive drilling equipment, say police OK, so they dug the tunnel, got to the target and then found that there wasn’t as much cash as they had thought. Diddums. That’s not the

Yesterday’s announcement about High Speed 2 was given more significance by the media than perhaps it deserved. The route of the track from Birmingham to Leeds and Manchester, and the sites for the stations on the northern lines, remains to be finalised. If all goes according to plan the first passangers could travel on the

Earlier today, the Government announced that it is still planning to go ahead with a new high-speed rail line that will reach Birmingham by 2026, and then be connected to Manchester and Leeds. And it's doing so in the face of widespread scepticism among the public and business leaders. When we at the TPA commissioned YouGov to test public support for different cuts in public spending, 48 per ...

Ex-Manchester United football star and film actor Eric Cantona now appears to have turned his hand to politics.

Newcastle did not beat Manchester United today, because the long term trend is for Manchester United to beat Newcastle. - Bishop Hill's quote of the day today. He found it here. This is the game being referred to....

Beijing has its smog. Manchester has this; and you can hear it every time there's a high wind. Sad to say it's not the vuvuzela of doom heralding the return of Chulthu, but the tuning fork effect caused by the...

Following Manchester Labour’s extraordinary attack on the pupil premium – describing the policy as a “sham” – news reaches The Voice via Lib Dem councillor Steve Beasant that a Labour cabinet member on North East Lincolnshire Council has joined his Manchester colleagues in their criticism. As Paul Walter reported earlier, Nick Clegg was asked about the

There’s rather bizarre news from Manchester, where the Council’s ruling Labour group has passed a motion declaring the pupil premium a “sham” and calling for the policy to be scrapped. The pupil premium – which was a key Lib Dem policy at the last election – has meant a funding boost of almost £11million for