Robert Peel: Last News

A three-day festival featuring the very best food and drink Bury has to offer from across the world will be held for the first time next month. From Thursday, May 23 the town centre will be packed with pop-up food markets, artisan drinks and craft stalls, music and live entertainment.

As places to lunch in Manchester go, I’m not sure there’s many that have been providing midday sustenance for Mancunians - and lesser mortals - since 1806. The Portico Library can make this claim confidently, however.

A new operator could soon be at the helm of a former Wetherspoons which closed suddenly last month. Punters were left 'devastated' when The Robert Peel pub, in Bury, ceased trading without warning.

Nestled on the slopes of Holcombe Moor, just west of Ramsbottom lies the stunning village of Holcombe. Stone cottages, endless moors and hills, a local pub dating back to 1751 - Holcombe has bags of Great British charm.

protest in George Square in Glasgow between 1.40pm and 1.45pm on June 14, a man was assaulted and subjected to racial abuse. Hundreds of people attended the Square calling for the statue of Metropolitan Police founder Sir Robert Peel to stay in place in an event organised by a group called the Loyalist Defence League.

Glasgow last month. Hundreds of people descended on George Square in the city centre on Sunday, June 14, calling for the statue of Metropolitan Police founder Sir Robert Peel to stay in place in an event organised by a group called the Loyalist Defence League.It came after a protest was organised to call for the statue's removal.The original demonstration, planned by the Glasgow Youth Art Collective, was postponed due to what organisers said was a lack of access to the square and "police targeting activists".Police Scotland said on Wednesday that a 54-year-old man has been charged in connection with an assault and two men, aged 20 and 24, have been charged over public order offences.

Glasgow - but a top police officer has said known football groups were on both sides. Missiles were thrown amid clashes between protesters who said they were there to 'guard' the city's statues in the city centre and counter-demonstrators.

Glasgow today. Hundreds descended on George Square to guard the statue of Metropolitan Police founder Robert Peel in an event organised by a group called the Loyalist Defence League, after a protest was organised to call for its removal.

Protesters today clashed in the latest dispute over whether another historic statue in Britain should be taken down.

protesters 'protecting statues' from other activists as the groups clashed in Glasgow.

Glasgow's George Square as Black Lives Matter activists demand the removal of a memorial to former PM Robert Peel.Huge crowds of protesters could be seen walking down North Hanover Street towards the square accompanied by a police escort.The Glasgow Youth Art Collective called on Black Lives Matter activists to descend on the same location to demand the removal of the Sir Robert Peel statue.The George Square memorial, dedicated to the former Prime Minister whose father had links to the slave trade, was spray painted with an anti-police message last Sunday.A statement on the 'Peel Must Fall' Facebook event says: "As statues continue to fall daily around the world and the UK...

Glasgow’s main war memorial from vandalism attacks.The Loyalist Defence League had urged followers to converge in the city centre today for a 'protect the Cenotaph' event in response to statues being defaced across Scotland.Men, women and children can be seen gathering in the crowd during lockdown at Glasgow’s George Square.Police have formed a cordon around the square.Multiple memorials have been targeted with vandalism in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.The Cenotaph pays tribute to those from Glasgow who fought and died in World War I and World War II.The gathering takes place one day before another group - the Glasgow Youth Art Collective - plan to descend on the same location to agitate for the Sir Robert Peel statue to be

Campaigns to remove controversial statues gathered pace today as the Black Lives Matter movement spread across the UK.

crowd-sourced map, produced by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, displays more than 50 statues of historical figures which are said to 'celebrate slavery and racism'.It has gone live days after a statue to former slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol was torn down and dumped in a harbour.There are five monuments to former Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel listed on the map - in Bury, Manchester, Preston, Leeds and Glasgow.