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How a Manchester mental health ward neglected a suicidal patient

1 week ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

Dear readers — today’s story covers the inquest into the death of Charlotte Sophia Parry, a 27-year-old who tragically took her own life while on an acute psychiatric ward in Wythenshawe in 2022. The inquest looked at whether neglect by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust contributed to Charlotte’s death. The piece features references to suicide and self harm and discretion is advised. If you are having thoughts of suicide or are concerned that someone you know may be, find help here.
Free jazz, motorcycles and lost bands: why did we forget the Manchester Music Collective?

1 week ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Daniel Dylan Wray
A midsummer’s nightmare: What really caused the Royal Exchange’s cancelled show?

4 weeks ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Mollie Simpson

It was late August, just weeks before opening night, when key figures at the Royal Exchange realised their autumn production was in trouble. A Midsummer Night’s Dream was due to start its five-week run on 6 September, and as usual, a group of staff had gathered to watch a tech rehearsal, in which a show’s sound, costumes and lighting are given a run-through. The show was highly anticipated.
Inside GMP’s race to find the Salford torso killer

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

On 5 April 2024, Lewis Hughes, then a detective superintendent at Greater Manchester Police’s serious crime division, clocked into work. Hughes, 40, has been in the force since he was 18 years old. That day, he was covering as senior detective, and it was a particularly busy day. There had been three potential murders in the last 24 hours: one in a prison, another a stabbing of a teenager in South Manchester.
You struggle with your mental health and a nearby cafe offers a lifeline - then it suddenly closes

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

There was little consultation or warning. One Friday in late January, a manager from Greater Manchester’s mental health services walked into No.93 Wellbeing Centre, in Harpurhey, and found Lauren Gregory. Gregory first visited the centre — a community hub tailored to people with mental health issues — in the midst of the first lockdown after the birth of her daughter.
No restaurant for the wicked: how viral chef Sam Buckley put ethics at the centre of eating out

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

It wasn't a bad idea. In a bid to show how the fast food burger — something you can get at the press of a button, anywhere, at any time — was in fact a finite resource, chef Sam Buckley would make burgers out of Maraschino. Maraschino was a lustrous red poll cow whose carcass would be butchered into some 1,200 burgers. Once they were sold, the pop up would shut. It would make people think about the cows being slaughtered every day to make millions of fast food burgers sold worldwide.
Could this be the future of housing in Manchester?

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Sophie Atkinson

Dear readers — red-brick Victorian housing is part of this city’s charm, but can come with considerable downsides: draughty conditions, mould creeping up your wall and monstrous heating bills. Your flatmates might tell you to simply stop moaning and put on another jumper, but chilly homes are a serious health risk. Excess winter deaths linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are almost three times higher for those living in the coldest quarter of housing.
They say Bolton Council is out to make them homeless - but is it a case of crossed wires gone horribly wrong?

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

The inspector arrived without prior warning. She picked her way down the curving path bordered by prickled hedges to Earls Farm, in Harwood, three miles out of Bolton town centre. There, she found the borough’s largest cattery, a long, low shelter lined with wire fences that has capacity for some 60 cats. Its owners, Karen and David Yates, came out as she approached. Her visit, the inspector said, “had nothing to do with what’s going on with the council”.
In St Peter’s Square, the fight against homelessness becomes a fight against the homeless

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

Dear readers — yesterday, Jack headed through early morning drizzle to St Peter’s Square. A homeless encampment which has been there for a year was set to be cleared by bailiffs. Normally our Thursday read only goes out in full to paying subscribers, but given what a divisive issue the encampment has been, this article didn’t feel right to paywall. But if you’d like to support this kind of journalism, please consider taking out a subscription by hitting the button below.
The man keeping John Rylands Library locked in the past

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

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