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Radio 5 Live - In Short, ‘YouTube’s my friend this week’: How to teach yourself to milk a horse

By testing the PH levels of her pregnant horse’s milk – Kathryn was able to tell how far away her horse, Vasanti, is to foaling.

Speaking to 5 Live’s Tony Livesey and Michelle Ackerley, Kathryn said ‘it worked and we got milk and we tested her PH and it said it was at a level that means she’ll give birth in the next three days’.

This clip is originally from 5 Live Drive on Wednesday 15 February 2023.
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Weathering the storm: Tailoring in a pandemic

Much like every industry, the clothing trade was not immune from hardships during this time. But away from the high street, how has the tailoring and craftsman world fared? From Savile Row to menswear journalists to one-man bands making clothes to order in their front rooms, what challenges did they face, has the ever-conservative Savile Row been forced to adapt as a result and have our wardrobe choices now permanently changed as a result of the pandemic?

Based in Berlin, tailoring house Maximi
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“We’ve got to make sure conflicts don’t happen again” – Manchester remembers on Armistice Day

Manchester residents remembered those lost in British conflicts today at the Manchester War Memorial Cenotaph at a moving two minutes silence.

This year marks 100 years since the poppy was taken up as a symbol of remembrance following the First World War.

‘The Last Post’ rung through St Peters Square alongside the sound of cannons going off in the distance to mark Armistice Day.

John Jinks, who served in the Royal Engineers 9th Regiment said at the Cenotaph today: “People died 100 years ago a
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Read: Magazine, May 2022

Spring is here! And so is the latest edition of Mancunian Matters magazine.

Packed full of features, the May edition covers everything from Manchester’s March for Women to the Dutch cycling revolution. House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle weighs in on North West boxer Jack Catterall’s controversial loss, and we share our views on who will win the three golf majors still to play this season.

Plus much more. Click below to read.
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"It seems just another Spinningfields" - The plan set to whitewash Manchester's modernist gems

The UMIST campus, one of Manchester’s most striking examples of modernist architecture, is under threat of redevelopment after plans were revealed to turn the site into a brand new £1.5billion ‘regeneration hub.’

The UMIST site was built between 1962 and 1968 and was the home for the University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology. This cluster of dashing white modernist structures now only sit to mark the ignition site of Harold Wilson’s ‘white heat of technology.’

After a merg
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Cultural revival at the Manchester Arts Fair after one year hiatus

The Manchester Arts Fair, a grand exhibition of work from 130 galleries, is to open tomorrow November 19 at Manchester Central.

Founded in 2008, the Arts Fair has given young artists a spotlight (and a stall) given their close links with the Manchester School of Arts and other art schools in the city.

But on the other side of the stall, the fair is a chance for art-savvy customers to buy a wide array of paintings, sculptures, sketches or prints.

However failing that, one could just walk aroun
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Manchester hit after the North given the boot over HS2 trackbacks

The North of England has been deprived of much needed and previously promised rail improvements and extensions after the government announced a curtailing of HS2 and an all-out scrap of the Northern Powerhouse project.

This will be seen as another U-turn on the report card of the Johnson government after the Prime Minister had promised wide-ranging rail network improvements which would aid economic inequality, travel times and encourage business growth in the North.

It is a tactical ploy which
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Remembrance Sunday 2021: Best war poetry to read

During the sombre days between November 11 and Remembrance Sunday, the nation will pause and slow down and remember those who have given their life and mind to the many conflicts Britain has had the misfortune of partaking in. First World War poetry holds some of the most powerful, striking words ever written on the war.

Of little words written hurriedly by unassuming men on blood-stained paper in between the shells and the guns

MM has collected a list of the best war poetry to sift through an
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'The Suppress Bureau' and risk of execution: How British journalists reported the First World War

Journalists covering the Western Front during the First World War were given strict orders to report the war in a way the government wanted it to seem.

The reporters risked execution and being kicked out of the establishment ring to cover the war in its true light.

This is the story of how the free press was banned under cover of war.

The first casualty of war is truth

The eternal quote that truth is the first casualty of war was certainly the case when the death rattle over Europe was rung
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From Cristiano Ronaldo to the Peaky Blinders: The Manchester tailor suiting the stars

James Personal Tailors & Sons has been making suits tucked away in Manchester City Centre since 1973. A family run business founded by Saville Row tailor, James Pendlebury, the business is now run by his son, Michael.

Among the many famous clients photographed and framed on the walls of the tailoring house, James Personal Tailors used to make the suits for the Manchester United players.

Michael said: “We’ve done suits for some of the players over the years, wedding suits and stuff like that.
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“Disgrace to the Labour movement”: Anti –Vaxxer Piers Corbyn slams opposition to UK’s COVID response

Leading Anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn has shamed the ‘pathetic’ Labour opposition to the Government’s COVID response.

Speaking at a protest outside the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Corbyn also took aim at the Labour Party for their apparent desire to restrict civil freedoms.

Corbyn, brother of former-Labour leader Jeremy, has been the target of outrage for his unrelenting objection to the international vaccination roll-out – a process he feels has made Governments of the world the l
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“We’re not happy and we need to keep saying so”- Manchester protests annual Conservative Party Conference

Thousands of protesters marched through Manchester to protest the arrival of the annual Conservative Party Conference set to start on Monday.

A wide array of voices, from CND to UNISON, came out on Manchester’s streets to remind the conference goers bused in from Westminster that conservative politics are not welcome here.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will wade into Manchester under the slogan of ‘Build Back Better’, which is new political shorthand for improving social care, tackling crime an
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“The party at this moment in time is travelling in the wrong direction”: Ian Lavery MP on Labour's future after Hartlepool

‘Super Thursday’ proved to be a miserable day for Labour, in what was the first public referendum on the glossy new direction for the party, and the man leading the lonesome expedition, Keir Starmer. An expedition into the electoral wilderness some say. An outback of rain-soaked tents, camping equipment and the Liberal Democrats.

Referendums have not been kind to Labour in recent years – the unofficial Hartlepool Round was no exception. The Conservatives now take hold of an area they haven’t he
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A life in style: The refined elegance of Prince Philip

One aspect of Prince Philip’s life in royalty which is often overlooked was his unwavering style. Refined, suitable and always British in character.

Last year, the Prince’s Duke of Edinburgh scheme published a checklist of ‘character-building’ areas for young kids, to help enrich and widen their lives.

One of the more inspirational pledges from this was point 22 – ‘dress for yourself, not others.’ And he’s right.

Over his career, Philip was a quietly dashing, well-dressed man. Occupying the r
Redaction Report •

Northern Independence Party: ‘It’s time’ to break away following UK government’s handling of coronavirus pandemic

Northern Independence Party: ‘It’s time’ to break away following UK government’s handling of coronavirus pandemic

WESTMINSTER’S handling of the coronavirus pandemic has shown the North of England needs to be granted independence, a political party has told Redaction Politics.

The Northern Independence Party (NIP) has said the disproportionate impact felt by the North throughout the pandemic and the governments handling of the virus has validated the party’s calls for regional independence.

Cl
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Stockport student runs 232km for charity in touching tribute to ‘selfless’ grandma

A student from Stockport has raised £856 for Save the Children after running 232km in one month in memory of his grandma who passed away in January.

Ethan Bayley decided to run 5k every day in February for the charity, which was close to his late grandma.

Beryl Thompson, who died at the age of 91, was a devoted supporter of children’s charities across her community throughout her life.

Ethan, 19, ran 92km over his target for the month and finished off the last day of February with a four-hour
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Halting the American war machine requires fundamental government change

THE ills of American exceptionalism will continue despite a change of leadership in the White House, an American socialist group has claimed.

While some of Donald Trump’s policies have been reversed immediately since Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election in November, such as the United States rejoining the Paris climate agreement, halting the American war machine requires fundamental government change, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) told Redaction Politics.

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