Work will begin on a new CYCLOPS junction in South Manchester next week. The busy Brooks Bar junction in Whalley Range, sees five lanes of traffic crossing and is a route into many areas south of the city.
31.07.2022 - 22:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
On April 3, 1978 Hollywood star Vanessa Redgrave walked off the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles having won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in the wartime drama Julia. Just three months later she stood in the far-less glamourous surroundings of Manchester town hall awaiting the announcement of a very different kind of vote.
The actress represented the far-left Workers Revolutionary Party in the Moss Side by-election, called following the death of Labour MP Frank Hatton. With Jim Callaghan in charge of a minority Labour government and a resurgent Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher ahead in the polls, the by-election was viewed as a crucial indicator of the country's future political direction.
There was speculation that if Labour could consolidate the 4,000 majority held by Hatton, Callaghan could be tempted into calling an early General Election in October. But if the Tories took a big chunk out of that majority, or even managed to win the seat, then all bets were off.
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Throw in the presence of the far-right National Front - whose candidate Herbert Andrew taught business studies at a high school in Stockport - in an area with a large Afro-Caribbean population and it was a potentially explosive mix. Redgrave, a Hollywood star at the top of her game, might have seemed like an unlikely candidate for a notorious Trotskyist party said to have been financed by Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
But she had long worn her Marxist politics on her sleeve. In the early 60s she joined anti-war group the Committee of 100, and would later become a prominent campaigner against the Vietnam War.
She reportedly used her fee from 1971 film Mary, Queen of Scots to build a nursery
Work will begin on a new CYCLOPS junction in South Manchester next week. The busy Brooks Bar junction in Whalley Range, sees five lanes of traffic crossing and is a route into many areas south of the city.
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