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      Eric Cantona reveals inspiration for 1995 seagulls comment: ‘It just came out’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 15:50


    Former Manchester United star says his near 30-year silence on subject has been his revenge on the press

    It was one of the most baffling utterances ever made by a footballer.

    When Eric Cantona said at a 1995 press conference: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea,” everyone was left scratching their heads.

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      UK investigating claims Hamas attack survivors faced antisemitic abuse at airport

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 09:45

    Two Israeli brothers, who were at Nova Music Festival, say they were detained by Border Force at Manchester airport

    The Home Office is investigating allegations that two Israeli survivors of the 7 October Hamas terror attacks were subjected to antisemitic comments by a Border Force officer upon their arrival at Manchester airport.

    The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region (JRC) has claimed the two men, brothers who had survived the Hamas assault on the Nova music festival in Re’im , were told by one officer after being detained that they had to “make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over here” as they were released.

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      Tory Manchester mayoral candidate defects to Reform UK

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 15:27


    Dan Barker, who only took up the post three months ago, says he’s delighted to join the new home of conservatism

    The Conservative candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral election has defected to Richard Tice’s rightwing Reform UK party.

    Dan Barker was selected only three months ago as the Tory candidate to challenge the incumbent mayor Labour’s Andy Burnham in May’s elections.

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      Woman bailed after chanting ‘from the river to the sea’ in Manchester protest

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 12:08

    Exclusive: Police accused of suppressing free speech as Musa Khawaja, who is of Palestinian heritage, banned from city centre

    Police have been accused of suppressing legitimate protest after a woman was arrested for chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and given bail conditions banning her from Manchester city centre or from being in a group of more than three people.

    Musa Khawaja, 26, from Lancashire, was arrested for the chant outside the offices of BNY Mellon in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, during a demonstration against the bank’s investment of more than £10m in the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems .

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      ‘Unbelievably relevant’: what can the explosive 1958 play A Taste of Honey tell us today?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 08:00

    It was a time when the pill was unavailable and homosexuality was illegal. As Shelagh Delaney’s sparky story of a Salford single mother and her pregnant teenage daughter returns, can it really speak to our era?

    It was after her very first trip to the theatre that 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey , hammered out on a borrowed typewriter after deciding she could do better than the play she had seen on a date at Manchester’s Opera House. Sixty-six years later, and 13 years after her death from breast cancer , her sparky debut is being staged half a mile away at the Royal Exchange, still a trading post for cotton during Delaney’s teenage years.

    Almost nothing is left of Delaney’s soot-stained, seedy Salford. The docks of the script are now home to the BBC at Media City, with gleaming high-rises packed full of international students replacing the tumbledown terraces where a promiscuous mother, Helen, abandons her teenage daughter, Jo, in a grimy bedsit.

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      Survivors of UK terror attacks warn: ‘Don’t equate Muslims with extremists’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 10 March - 06:00

    Open letter signed by families of victims including Manchester Arena bombing says debate ‘must not play into terrorists’ hands’

    More than 50 survivors of terrorist attacks, including the Manchester Arena bombing and the London Bridge attacks, have signed an open letter warning politicians to stop conflating British Muslims with extremism.

    The signatories include Rebecca Rigby, the widow of soldier Lee Rigby who was murdered in south-east London in 2013, and Paul Price, who lost his partner, Elaine McIver, in the Manchester Arena attack in 2017. They caution against comments which play “into the hands of terrorists”.

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      Greater Manchester police admit footage of officer dragging homeless man is ‘unacceptable’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 5 March - 14:07


    Video shot near town hall shows officer deliberately stepping on man’s stomach as he lay on the floor

    Footage of a Greater Manchester police officer dragging a homeless man across the ground in a sleeping bag has been called “unacceptable” by the force.

    The video, which was taken near Manchester town hall, then shows the officer deliberately stepping on the man’s stomach as he is lying on the floor.

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      MTV EMA awards to be held in Manchester for first time

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 29 February - 15:44


    Star-studded ceremony to take place in November at new Co-op Live arena, set to become the UK’s largest when it opens in April

    The MTV EMAs, one of the glitziest nights in the global pop music calendar, is to be held in Manchester for the first time.

    The music network’s Europe music awards will be held on 10 November at the city’s new Co-op Live arena, which is set to become the UK’s largest indoor venue when it opens in April.

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      John Savident obituary

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 25 February - 15:06

    Stage and screen actor best known for playing the bombastic butcher Fred Elliott in Coronation Street

    John Savident, who has aged 86, was a skilled, colourful, sometimes broad but always memorable actor who played one of TV’s best loved soap opera characters – the bombastic but lovable butcher Fred Elliott in the ITV series Coronation Street – for more than a decade.

    Fred, who first appeared in 1994 and became a regular two years later, was soon a favourite with viewers, thanks in part to the enjoyably imitable repetitive vocal tic that Savident invested him with: “Ashley, I say, Ashley,” he would utter when addressing his young nephew (later revealed to be his son), Ashley Peacock (Steven Arnold).

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