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Molten salt and human sweat: the weird batteries that could store renewable energy
From Nevada to Manchester, developers are trialling innovative solutions to clean energy’s biggest challengeIn the deserts of the United Arab Emirates a sprawling clean energy project, stretching across an area roughly the size of 12,600 football fields, will play host to a breakthrough allowing s...
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Andy Burnham urged to give new Greater Manchester Mayor more powers over rent controls in landmark move
Manchester put forward as ‘pilot’ city for new rent controls in a move which could change renting for millions across the country
Manchester council to save nearly £1m bringing leisure company back in-house
Some have questioned whether the plan will work.
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Here be dragons: does moving power to the north work?
Andy Burnham’s recent promise to create a ‘No 10 North’ echoes BBC’s successful Out of London planWhen the BBC first announced its intention to move a significant chunk of its operation to Salford in Greater Manchester – the “Out of London” plan, as the then director general Mark Thomp...
The 200-year-old Manchester pub at the centre of a notorious unsolved murder which will soon be no more
The Bank of England in Manchester became the focus of a high-profile murder probe
‘He became a sensation’: Manchester pays tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in BritainHe was one of the most important figures of his time, an author, orator and American statesman who was born enslaved. But some of the most important years in the civil rights leader Fred...
Vision for land around Manchester United's new football ground and five other major plans across the city-region
These are all the latest significant developments tabled with local authorities across Greater Manchester
The 'atrocious' problem in Levenshulme people fear could become 'catastrophic'
"It won’t be a road, it’ll be a car park essentially, and there will be fumes and congestion everywhere"
GetFaked: how a star baker confected his enemies
Rich Myers went viral for airing his haters online. Turns out they weren’t real
‘He knows what he thinks’: how ready is Andy Burnham to become PM?
A hasty handover from Starmer meant his successor has not had much time to prepare for office yet his team is quietly confidentWhat Andy Burnham’s first speech as Labour leader tells usJust 20 minutes’ walk along the road to Wigan Pier, Andy Burnham’s own route back to Westminster was cemented...
Burnham to announce cabinet picks on Monday – as it happened
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereWhen Andy Burnham first tried to return to the Commons, by applying to be Labour’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, Labour’s national executive committee blocked him – in part because, they argued, Labour might find it ...
Manchester accountant reveals grocery shopping hack which could save families £400
Beth Snow says the trick gets her two weeks of free shopping every year
We’ve got the data on… second choice votes
The next mayor will be decided by voters’ second choices. Here’s who they’re liable to pick
The Manchester years: how Burnham’s rebirth as ‘king of the north’ set him on road to No 10
In the second part of a two-part profile, Josh Halliday charts PM-in-waiting’s journey northward, where as mayor he revelled in his Covid-era popularity – and changed his approach to politicsPart one: From Cambridge ‘impostor’ to New Labour starAndy Burnham was a broken man. In a pub a short...
The Guardian view on the Criminal Cases Review Commission: after Malkinson errors, trust must be earned back | Editorial
A review ordered by Vera Baird should help the body tasked with identifying miscarriages of justice to rebuild itselfIn the next few months, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) will make one of the highest-profile decisions in its 29-year history: whether to send the conviction of Lucy Letby...
New 'exclusion zones' could be set up outside asylum hotels in Manchester
Councillors in Manchester have called for the measures
From Cambridge ‘impostor’ to New Labour star: Andy Burnham’s winding path to power
In the first of a two-part profile, Daniel Boffey traces the incoming PM’s early forays into politics and his rise to prominence – ultimately leading to him leaving London for ManchesterPart two: How Burnham’s rebirth as ‘king of the north’ set him on road to No 10Andy Burnham had emerged ...
Council meeting kicks off after ‘Nazi’ row between Reform UK and Greens
Emotions ran high during a debate about the far right.
Row over future of Ryebank Fields escalates amid anger over seven-month delay
Campaigners have slammed the council over 'delays' to a planning application.
This is Manchester's cocktail golden age
Plus: The Mill’s top ten cocktail bars (and the best drinks to order in each of them)