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‘Manchester Pride seems to be about straight girls going out on a sesh, getting drunk and coked up with their gay mates’
Exclusive: Salford Council is investigating the White Hotel
'We want little venues like that, we just want them to be run properly'
The last knight of Baguley Hall
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A rush of redundancies, multi-university lawfare and a Bentley-owning vice chancellor
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