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Oldham College have teamed up with Willmott Dixon to make Christmas extra-special for 200 local young people who have been adversely affected by COVID-19.
Date Published 17/12/2020
Essential teaching time is being lost across Oldham, with attendance rates at just 71% for high schools.
An extra 24 miles of permanent cycling and walking routes will be built across Greater Manchester using almost £16m in government funding.
Date Published 16/12/2020
A Christmas concert is set to be beamed directly to older residents in Greater Manchester thanks to a new app, Greater Moments.
Date Published 13/12/2020
Greater Manchester leaders have confirmed that the latest version of the regional spatial framework is dead after Stockport rejected the long-delayed plans.
Date Published 11/12/2020
Greater Manchester leaders have stepped up calls for the region to move out Tier 3 restrictions as local hospital admissions continue to fall.
Visitors to care homes in Greater Manchester will be given rapid Covid-19 tests before seeing their loved ones – but only if they have already tested negative for the virus after...
Date Published 09/12/2020
Greater Manchester is launching a further public consultation to get a wide range of views on its proposals to reform the bus market; in light of the findings of a new report on...
Calls have been made for almost £2bn in business rates relief handed back by major retailers to be used to help millions of workers excluded from financial aid during the Covid-19...
Date Published 07/12/2020
Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding has described as 'terrible', the news that the Debenhams chain is now facing an extremely uncertain future.
Date Published 04/12/2020
Talks over the uncertain future of the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) will continue, despite Stockport councillors voting against the proposals.
Greater Manchester should move out of the toughest coronavirus restrictions ‘as one’ but the mayor has not ruled supporting different arrangements between northern and southern...
Date Published 02/12/2020
The Greater Manchester Mayor’s A Bed Every Night homelessness reduction scheme is being extended after a charity warned numbers seeking help have rocketed during the pandemic.
Date Published 28/11/2020
Greater Manchester’s plans to bring the local bus network into public ownership have been approved for further public consultation to consider the effects of Covid-19.
Date Published 27/11/2020
Andy Burnham says it is ‘more likely than not’ that Greater Manchester will be put into the highest tier of coronavirus restrictions despite falling infection rates.
Date Published 25/11/2020
Greater Manchester leaders have conceded that talks to save the region’s long-delayed development masterplan have finally run out of road.
Scores of people have slipped through the government’s COVID support net with some living with no earnings since March.
Date Published 23/11/2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been urged to help almost three million people across the UK who have been ‘excluded’ from vital support throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Date Published 20/11/2020
Andy Burnham has warned against the introduction of ‘permanent’ coronavirus restrictions once the national lockdown ends.
Date Published 19/11/2020
Four new partners have been appointed to the Greater Manchester Housing First pilot following an exhaustive selection process.
Date Published 14/11/2020
Andy Burnham has warned against complacency following the news that a coronavirus vaccine could potentially be a matter of weeks away.
Date Published 12/11/2020
Transforming Greater Manchester into a Living Wage City-Region is the renewed focus of Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham this Living Wage Week.
Date Published 10/11/2020
The first of 27 new Metrolink trams is set to arrive next week, boosting capacity on the network and providing more space for social distancing.
Date Published 06/11/2020
‘Neverending’ Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions in Greater Manchester could have a damaging and potentially ‘lifelong’ impact on people’s mental health.
Date Published 05/11/2020
Greater Manchester leaders are expecting the latest national lockdown to last longer than expected and remain skeptical about the effect it will have on rising Covid-19 cases.
Date Published 04/11/2020
A national circuit break would ‘give people hope of a better Christmas’, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said.
Date Published 30/10/2020
Greater Manchester’s Spatial Framework, the long-awaited master plan for boosting jobs and house building, has won the support of regional leaders.
Councils in Greater Manchester will get more than £70m in the lastest round of emergency funding as the government reverses its decision on using a formula which gives more money...
Date Published 28/10/2020
Calls have been made for the ‘Greater Manchester family’ to come together and support businesses, volunteers, charities and community groups hit hardest by the economic fallout...
The latest version of the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework – the long-awaited masterplan for housebuilding and job creation in the city-region – has been published.
Date Published 26/10/2020