Central Manchester News

Bunting, Holness OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on National Security Peter Bunting on Tuesday ruffled the feathers of members of the governing Jamaica Labour Party , suggesting that it has failed to break its association with gunmen.

There have been renewed calls for Roxborough, the inadequately maintained birthplace of National Hero Norman Washington Manley, to be upgraded in a manner befitting its historical significance.

INMATES at the Ebenezer Home for the Mentally Ill in Mandeville live in virtual squalor due to a lack of finances, which has left inmates in desperate need of basic items such as food and clothes, and the facility itself is in dire need of repairs.

British mainland police want water cannons to use against demonstrators in the face of criticism that conventional crowd-control tactics, such as those used during the G20 demonstrations, are failing to prevent violence.

A ROSSENDALE PR guru is to put a pitch to Dragonsa Den star Theo Paphitis after his company was shortlisted for a charity innovation award.

The good thing was that on this occasion the victim had the last laugh. But for residents of this once sedate Manchester capital, the abduction of a woman in broad daylight in late May by men posing as police was a crude wake- up call that emphasised how criminals had invaded their space.

PNP insiders say DK Duncan seen as better general secretary BY HG HELPS, Editor-at-Large Investigative Coverage Unit icu@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, June 19, 2009 There is a move afoot to oust embattled Peter Bunting as general secretary of the People's National Party , senior party sources have told the Observer.

Researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have solved a genetic problem that causes the accumulation of male hormones - called androgens - in women.

Many women who have an emergency caesarean are so shocked that they demand an elective section next time.

A report launched at the NHS Confederation annual conference today warns that the bureaucratic burden of healthcare regulation is growing and calls on the Department of Health and regulators to simplify providers' process of reporting.

The UK's biggest children's hospital is preparing to welcome its first patients, as its Chief Executive promises to "raise the bar for the NHS". 'The quality of design here is outstanding' The PFI-funded Manchester Royal Children's Hospital is part of a A 500m development and replaces three local facilities.

Brian Molko and Placebo have announced a five date tour for the UK this December, in addition to their three festival appearances this summer.

A chief reporter has claimed the decision to shut his newspaper's office and move all the staff to Central Manchester will lead to "dumbed-down, out-of-touch reporting." MEN Media recently closed a series of weekly newspaper offices around the city as part of a wide-ranging series of cutbacks .

An investigation has been launched after families were told their babies had MRSA - only to discover none of them had the life-threatening disease.

The NHS in the North West is taking a ground-breaking approach to innovation, with help from European colleagues based in the Basque Country.

Weather Rain and drizzle Hospitals Key moment: Graham Hiley of Bovis, centre, with Sir Tim Chessells of Catalyst and Peter Mount Trust chairman Children's hospital finished Amanda Crook MANCHESTER'S new children's hospital - the largest in the country - is finished.

The Northwest Regional Development Agency has today agreed further funding and support for Manchester's pioneering Biomedical Research Centre with an investment of A 9.5m to support operating costs whilst sustaining and further developing the BRC's business plan up to 2012.

A DATE has been set for an inquest into the death of veteran councillor Bert Grange.

NHS BORDERS has announced that its chief executive, John Glennie, is to retire from the post he has held since 2003, in September.

Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Manchester, and the Junction Adolescent Unit, Scotforth, Lancaster Raphael Kelvin, MRCPsych Chris Roberts, PhD Biostatistics Group, School of Epidemiology & Health Sciences, University of Manchester Ian Goodyer, FRCPsych, MD Correspondence: Paul Wilkinson, Developmental Psychiatry Section, University of ...