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Andy Burnham criticises ‘bankruptcy’ of Labour approach to campaigning
Greater Manchester mayor rekindles leadership speculation with speech addressing party’s byelection lossAndy Burnham has reignited hostilities with Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership, criticising what he described as the “bankruptcy” of the party’s approach to campaigning, a week after it lo...
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‘Unbelievable, revolting and extremely depressing’: Old Trafford has a rubbish problem
The neighbourhood has become Manchester’s fly-tipping epicentre. A motley gang are fighting back
‘Thought it was a collapsed drain’: golf course sinkhole exposes lost wine cellar
Groundsman stumbles across room, sealed for more than 100 years, that was part of 12th-century Manchester hallA sinkhole that opened up on a Manchester golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century.The cellar, along with dozens of empty wine and port bottles, was discovered...
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Manchester council issues update as row over 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton by-election deepens
Election observers said they had seen 'concerningly high levels' of the illegal voting practice during last week's by-election
Suspect named after arrests made in Britain First march in Manchester
The suspect has been charged with assaulting an emergency worker after the Britain First protests in Manchester
Farage emulating ‘his hero Trump’ in deriding byelection results, says new Green MP
Reform leader says without evidence that his party’s candidate came first among UK-born voters, as Hannah Spencer takes seat in parliamentNigel Farage has been accused of Donald Trump-style election denial by the Green party’s new MP for Gorton and Denton, after he claimed her Reform rival “ca...
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Why councils can splash millions on massive projects but say they have 'no choice but to raise taxes'
Councils face criticism for upping taxes every year whilst spending millions on massive infrastructure projects. But why?
‘You weren’t free’: Iranians party in London and Manchester after strikes against regime
The diaspora hope the death of Ali Khamenei will bring change – and peace – even as fears remain over Iran’s futureOn Saturday night, with bombs falling across the Middle East and rumours of the death of Ali Khamenei, the longtime ayatollah of Iran, spreading, the streets of north London resem...
Byelection trouncing has lessons for Labour | Letters
Readers respond to the Green party’s victory in Gorton and Denton Gorton is the place where my great-grandmother was born into a railway family in 1875. At that time, it was world-famous for making locomotives, and was one of the most industrialised and polluted places in the country. When I first...
Keir Starmer was advised to ditch net zero. He needs to re-embrace it
After byelection defeat and with right-leaning advisers gone, will PM return to his instincts and embrace Labour ‘DNA’ on climate?Less than a year ago, Keir Starmer stood in front of an audience of senior officials and business leaders from 60 countries in London to declare climate action was ...
Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris
In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversationIn the wake of Labour’s third-place showing at last Thursday’s Gorton and Denton byelection, Keir Starmer could have responded with a mixture...
New Lidl and major roadworks among latest planning, licensing and road closure notices across Greater Manchester
These are all the significant developments tabled with councils across Greater Manchester recently
Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan
London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’Sadiq Khan: ‘Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the byelection’s lesson’The mayor of London has said the Gorton and Denton byelec...
Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan
The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefsSadiq Khan is the mayor of LondonAttacking Greens is ‘flawed strategy’There’s no sugar-coating what happened in the byelection in Gort...
Poorly regulated clinics in England are putting children with ADHD at risk, warn doctors
Private providers accused of prescribing powerful stimulants without examining young patients properlyChildren with ADHD are being put at risk by poorly regulated private clinics that prescribe powerful stimulants without key physical examinations, doctors have warned.A surge in remote-only assessme...
'We tore the roof off': How the Greens took Gorton and Denton
Labour had been winning in the area for almost a century. Not anymore
Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens
PM criticises ‘sectarian politics’ in byelection but party may fear Greens’ nascent leftwing political machineThe Green party’s success at winning Muslim votes in Gorton and Denton has sent tremors through Westminster, prompting recriminations and accusations from opposition parties, who sen...