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The Global Banking School is one of the UK’s most lucrative ‘universities’. But who’s footing the bill?
Former staff allege the school accepts students who have no intention of ever repaying their loans
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
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The Ardwick art school putting Manchester back in the picture
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Stolen customers, broken flags, physical fights: have the people taking us around Manchester lost their way?
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