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The horrific news yesterday about the terror attack on Bondi Beach has dominated headlines today and is likely to do so for the rest of the week.
Sixteen people have died following the mass shooting. It was an attack that targeted the Jewish community as they celebrated the first day of the festival of lights, known as Chanukah.
The attack comes two months after the Jewish community in Manchester was also targeted in a terror attack. You can read a wide range of our coverage of the horrific incident on our website today, including a moving interview with a Mancunian Rabbi working in Sydney. Rabbi Benjamin Elton was brought up in Unsworth, Bury. He moved to Australia in 2015.
Today he spoke of his ‘profound distress’ at the beach massacre. “I think it’s going to hit home for all Australians because Bondi Beach is a place where many, many people, of all backgrounds, go and it’s not safe for anybody.
“This, I think, will change the Sydney Jewish community forever. It’ll change Hanukkah for the Sydney Jewish community forever. There’s no going back to the day before.”
We will be following the story closely.
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MEN leads the way at the Regional Press Awards
The shortlist for the regional press awards was announced today and the Manchester Evening News leads the way with 14 nominations. In the young journalist of the year category our very own Caitlin Griffin is nominated. If you haven’t read it already then her wonderful comment piece about what Oasis means to the Irish community in Manchester is superb.
He will dislike being called a veteran, but Neal Keeling has had 38 years in the news game and specifically at the MEN. He has written some wonderful stuff this year, not least the article he wrote for the launch of our premium product.
Helena Vesty and Ethan Davies are nominated in the specialist writer categories. Helena has produced some incredible journalism this year including this one about ward 77 of the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
Ethan’s writing about the city this year has been full of insights – I particularly enjoyed this piece about the state of the city – ‘Everyone in London is moving to Manchester’.
One of our excellent photographers Kenny Brown has also been nominated, as has last year’s young journalist of the year James Holt.
We were also nominated for campaign of the year, live news coverage of the year, digital initiative of the year, news website of the year and scoop of the year for our investigation into the British Movement.
Please check out some of the fantastic journalism below.
Oasis show at Heaton Park
Oasis have never shied away from their Irish heritage – something thousands of Mancunians can relate to.
Manchester Evening News veteran Neal Keeling(Image: Kenny Brown | Manchester Evening News)
For 38 years, Neal Keeling has reported on the streets of Salford and Manchester.
Patrick Arnold, five, is surrounded by wires, machines, tubes because he’s poorly – very poorly(Image: Jason Roberts /Manchester Evening News)
The M.E.N. was granted rare access to the ward inside the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital where tiny babies battle the odds, five-year-olds face daily seizures, and teenagers try to sit their GCSEs amid major surgery, Helena Vesty reports.
SPECIAL REPORT: As Manchester city centre’s development shows no signs of slowing down, town is busier than ever with more visitors and 100,000 residents. But a tension between the old and new establishment and populations of Manchester exists – neatly summed up with a ‘Sankeys, not sourdough’ advert. Ethan Davies spoke to dozens of lifelong Mancs, new arrivals, and tourists to see what they think of the city centre ‘brimming with confidence’
Caroline Gore was killed by David Liptrot in October 2023(Image: Family handout / GMP)
One year on from the Manchester Evening News launching a campaign to better protect domestic abuse victims, we look at what has changed so far and what must still be done.