On Monday night Coronation Street actress Helen Flanagan tweeted that she was home alone in the large house she usually shares with her footballer boyfriend Scott Sinclair in Prestbury, Cheshire. Within hours, three men carrying a screwdriver and a saw broke in and stole jewellery and a mobile phone, leaving poor Helen traumatised. Armed with [...]

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By Giacomo Gobbin Privacy talks are the order of the day at Google as we approach to the release of its long awaited new product, Google Glass. The Silicon Valley corporation has taken note of people’s sentiments via social media, by means of the hashtag #ifihadglass, and the research has highlighted a general concern about [...]

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By Giacomo Gobbin Manchester University has launched a Recruitment Service for Business to help employers realise the potential of the city’s recent graduates. The project aims to cater to SMEs increasing demand for young talent in Greater Manchester, marked by a shrinking of supply over the last few years because of a regional “brain drain” as graduates [...]

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By Giacomo Gobbin Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, has a seriously optimistic perspective for Greater Manchester’s economy in the forthcoming years due to its vibrant creative industries. The economist visited The Point at Lancashire County Cricket Club this week, and commended the region for consistently adapting to the changes [...]

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By Giacomo Gobbin The Guardian has teamed-up with Apadmi, a Manchester-based mobile software developer to make a significant step forward in changing the way we think about journalism. Collaborating closely with the newspaper, Apadmi launched the app Guardian Witness as a platform to allow anyone to submit their own journalistic content using nothing but a [...]

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Poor Laura Fernee revealed a painful truth on national daytime television yesterday: she is just too beautiful to work. The thirty-three year old scientist says that her slim figure and pretty face have made the world of employment intolerable. Men cannot treat her as anything other than an object of desire and female colleagues hate [...]

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