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Greater Manchester’s previous deputy mayor will stay in a paid position for another six months as her employment is extended until the end of the year.
Date Published 02/06/2023
Andy Burnham has offered to meet with unions in a bid to break a ‘stalemate’ in talks over pay for tram drivers if they call off the Metrolink strike next week.
Date Published 01/06/2023
Nearly £3m is to be spent on improving walking and cycling routes in part of Oldham town centre.
Date Published 31/05/2023
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has confirmed the new portfolios which each Greater Manchester Combined Authority member will lead on for the city-region.
Date Published 30/05/2023
It’s been a year since the Clean Air Zone was supposed to come into force across Greater Manchester.
Long-held plans for two new platforms at Manchester’s Piccadilly station have been pulled with a ‘new approach’ to ease congestion on the railways to be prepared.
Date Published 25/05/2023
This week (Monday 15–Sunday, May 21) has been national Dementia Action Week, and the focus is on increasing diagnosis rates.
Date Published 20/05/2023
A degree with no debt that could lead you to £60,000-a-year job.
Date Published 18/05/2023
The first details of how Andy Burnham will use new powers given to Greater Manchester in the latest devolution deal have been revealed.
Date Published 13/05/2023
A controversial masterplan for the future of Greater Manchester has been ‘watered down’, according to campaigners who are fighting against it, with commitments about affordable...
Date Published 09/05/2023
Greater Manchester’s MPs will publicly scrutinise mayor Andy Burnham under new arrangements agreed as part of the latest handing over of powers.
Date Published 04/04/2023
Buses started turning yellow in Greater Manchester from Friday (March 24), six months before the new Bee Network is finally launched.
Date Published 26/03/2023
Printing in three dimensions might sound like magic.
Date Published 23/03/2023
Chief Constable Stephen Watson, alongside the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Kate Green and Chief Superintendent Colette Rose, has...
Date Published 21/03/2023
Greater Manchester Police has launched a new neighbourhood policing model which will aim to make communities safer, following a vigorous review and public consultation.
Date Published 20/03/2023
It was an historic day for Greater Manchester.
Big news for Greater Manchester was announced in the budget last week.
Buses, trams and trains in Greater Manchester are to be connected under one system like London’s by 2030.
Date Published 18/03/2023
Andy Burnham will have full control over local funding, the government has announced.
Date Published 15/03/2023
Councils have been setting their annual budgets over the last few weeks.
Date Published 12/03/2023
A damning third and final report of the public inquiry into the shocking Manchester Arena bombing in May, 2017, revealed yesterday (Thursday) that there was 'a significant missed...
Date Published 03/03/2023
A 'Community Fridge' pilot project has been launched in Greenacres.
Date Published 02/03/2023
Locally-based small businesses will benefit as theatres, museums and festivals are among 40 organisations set to receive more than £13m from the latest round of Greater...
Concerns have been raised about claims that the Oldham Coliseum building is 'riddled with asbestos'.
Date Published 28/02/2023
Transport bosses have set out what a new Clean Air Zone would look like if Greater Manchester is required to introduce daily charges for some vehicles.
Date Published 27/02/2023
Alina will never forget the words written in red block letters as she turned on the news one fateful February morning last year: “Putin started the war”.
Date Published 25/02/2023
It was ‘unworkable’. That’s the one thing everyone agreed on - eventually.
Date Published 20/02/2023
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has secured £7m from the Department for Education for the next phase of Skills Bootcamps in the city-region, which aim to help people...
Date Published 18/02/2023
All Greater Manchester households will pay up to £40 a year more in council tax from April.
Date Published 14/02/2023
Clean Air Zone charges are ‘highly unlikely’ to be introduced across Greater Manchester except for in two boroughs, mayor Andy Burnham has said.
Date Published 10/02/2023