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Sir Howard Bernstein obituary

Public servant who spearheaded the regeneration of post-industrial Manchester as the city council’s chief executive

The Guardian - UK

Sir Howard Bernstein, catalyst of Manchester regeneration, dies aged 71

Tributes paid to man credited with spearheading city’s 21st-century renaissance, including rebuild after IRA bomb

The Guardian - UK

Battered trust the biggest hurdle to bold new local government funding model

City mayors are pushing for new funding deals that would devolve more responsibility for infrastructure and social services to local communities. Jonathan Milne reports from the Local Government NZ conference in Christchurch.

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Panel to drag City Council out of trouble will do more than 'talk shop'

The Liverpool Strategic Futures Panel met for the first time on Monday months after it was announced

Liverpool Echo

'The ICU is full': medical staff on frontline of China's COVID fight say hospitals are 'overwhelmed'

In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this.

Reuters

Man, 78, ran over and killed family friend in car park tragedy...her family bear him 'no malice'

Henry Booth had just dropped off his wife and two friends when he crashed into them

Manchester Evening News

Details of panel to guide Liverpool Council out of trouble still not finalised

The group, chaired by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, was announced in August

Liverpool Echo

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Greg Clark shares Liverpool Council 'worries' as problems laid bare

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to the ECHO, Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark says further intervention at troubled council and formation of new strategic panel must guide city out of difficult times

Liverpool Echo

A North of England Olympic Games? Why not argues Sir Howard Bernstein

Twenty years ago this week, athletes from 72 nations competed over 11 days in Manchester's Commonwealth Games

Manchester Evening News

How a great English city sold itself to Abu Dhabi’s elite – and not even for a good price

Manchester’s Labour council let Sheikh Mansour buy up acres of public land for seemingly a fraction of its worth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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