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The Mancunian Way: Switch on is off

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, October 17, 2022.

Manchester Evening News

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham calls for an early general election

"I think they have given up the right to govern, such is the chaos they are in."

Manchester Evening News

'I left school in Rochdale at 16. Now I'm a boss at a £75bn company with 300,000 workers'

Siemens CEO Carl Ennis wants to get more young people into engineering to tackle society's big challenges

Manchester Evening News

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We need more homes like this, Labour’s shadow chancellor says on tour of Ancoats

The Labour MP frontbencher came to Manchester on Thursday (October 13) to see the first new carbon neutral social housing

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham defends council's decision to axe Bonfire Night celebrations across Manchester

'To me, it's the separation between desirable and essential. A firework display is desirable, but it's not essential'

Manchester Evening News

Customers say they are STILL struggling for tickets as the clock ticks on Avanti West Coast

The beleaguered firm is in a race against time to improve

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Fridays are not what they were

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Monday, October 10, 2022.

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Councillors call for some cars to be charged for driving into Manchester city centre

Manchester council is not looking at implementing an Ultra Low Emission Zone as it waits for a decision on the Clean Air Zone

Manchester Evening News

Free money for all: How universal basic income entered the political mainstream

Its advocates range from Tim Berners-Lee to Pope Francis, while Andy Burnham has said he’d like to see it trialled in Greater Manchester. So could UBI be an idea whose time has come?

The Independent UK

The once 'poor' Greater Manchester town that's becoming a place that 'wants for nothing'

“If you had said to me then, in 2001, that 20 years hence Leigh would host a UEFA Championship and a world cup, then even I would’ve struggled to believe that was possible"

Manchester Evening News

Manchester's worst-ever roads for traffic and pollution revealed

The MEN takes a deep dive on the region's worst spots for tailbacks

Manchester Evening News

One in five Greater Manchester buses are not on time

The reliability of bus services has dropped below national standards

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham's key demands as Avanti West Coast gets new six month contract

"Very few people in Greater Manchester will support this extension"

Manchester Evening News

Rail regulator 'gains assurances' from Avanti over advanced timetable publication

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said the news would 'provide some comfort' for passengers

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'Dutch-style' cycling vision could be brought to Wigan thanks to new £80k funding package

Wigan is the first of the five boroughs who applied for the Mini Hollands Feasibility Study grant of £78,947.

Manchester Evening News

"The Government has rewarded chaos and failure": Anger in Greater Manchester as Avanti handed new six-month rail contract

'People deserve far better'

Liverpool Echo

Home Office issue Hillsborough apology as politicians call for review postponement

The Home Office has issued an apology to the Hillsborough families over not telling them about the review

Manchester Evening News

Avanti given six more months to run west coast mainline despite 'unacceptable' service

The firm cut trains from Manchester to London to one an hour this summer

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Daily Mirror

Avanti West Coast handed six-month lifeline to improve trains after months of chaos

The train firm will get an extension to April 1, giving it one last chance to win a contract to carry on running the West Coast Main Line, in what unions branded a 'reward for failure'

Manchester Evening News

Prime Minister rules out energy-saving information campaign - despite blackout warning

Liz Truss reportedly blocked Jacob Ress-Mogg's proposal

Birmingham Post

Government to 'consider all options' on Avanti as calls grow for West Coast Main Line operator's contract to be removed

Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham hits out at "chaos" on line

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: Manky or swanky?

Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Thursday October 6, 2022.

The Independent UK

Home Office branded ‘thoughtless’ over Hillsborough review

The government department did not inform Hillsborough families before announcing a review into pathology at the original inquests.

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham says latest Hillsborough review should be 'immediately suspended'

The families of the Hillsborough victims say they had not been made aware of the review which was announced yesterday (October 5)

Manchester Evening News

Andy Burnham admits there could be more disruption IF Avanti lose their contract

The Labour mayor says train services between London and Manchester must improve immediately

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