• Manchester council to salute volunteers who helped clean up city after riots | Manchester Evening News – menmedia.co.uk

  A civic reception is being planned to honour the people who helped get Manchester back on its feet after the riots.

  The 1,000 volunteers who cleaned up the morning after the August 9 disturbances are expected to be invited to join magistrates and businesses for a formal ‘thank-you’ to be hosted by the Lord Mayor at Manchester Town Hall.

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• Richard Peppiatt: Journalistic Practice

  Richard Peppiatt is a former reporter tabloid reporter, who quit the Daily Star earlier this year in protest at what he regarded as their Islamophobic news agenda. He is now a freelance journalist, writer, broadcaster and campaigner for press reform.

  The following is the speech Richard delivered at yesterday’s Leveson inquiry.

  tags: journalism

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