Jennifer Williams
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Has Manchester rebuilt London’s housing crisis?
SPECIAL REPORT: In 2018, 2019 and 2020 the M.E.N. revealed the plight faced by rocketing numbers of homeless Mancunian families. The situation now feels increasingly out of control, raising deeper questions about the city’s future → Read More
Michael Gove rails against trickle-down economics in levelling up speech to northern leaders
The Tory cabinet minister said the approach simply hadn’t worked for the North, calling levelling up ‘the central mission of our times’ → Read More
The schizophrenia of ‘levelling up’
For Boris Johnson it is a slogan. For post-industrial communities, it is life and death. Whitehall still hasn’t decided what it is, or if it cares → Read More
The puzzle of ‘levelling up’
For Boris Johnson it is a slogan. For post-industrial communities, it is life and death. Whitehall still hasn’t decided what it is, or if it cares → Read More
Live: What the Levelling Up plan means for the North
Join our panel of experts as the Northern Agenda analyses the Levelling Up white paper announced today → Read More
Children killing children: Inside Greater Manchester’s teen knife crime epidemic
Virtually every corner of our region has been touched by tragedy as youth violence soars → Read More
Safeguarding services were warned tragic tot was at risk six months before his death
Five-year-old Dylan Scanlon died on New Year’s Eve. He had been flagged to both the police and social services the previous summer as being at risk of neglect → Read More
North’s own rail plan would have meant faster journeys and more trains, admits government
'Threadbare' Whitehall analysis argues that while the original Northern Powerhouse Rail plan would have provided the ‘greatest increase in connectivity and capacity’ of all options, it was not ‘affordable’ or ‘value for money’ → Read More
Labour promises Greater Manchester economic hope to match ‘pride in the past’
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells us why government has to get more involved if the Northern economy is to punch its weight. “If it was as simple as leaving it to the market, levelling up would have happened years ago.” → Read More
Huge concrete viaducts 'to blight east Manchester' in cut-price Piccadilly rail plans
Government wants to build a high-speed station at Piccadilly above ground to save money. But local leaders say that would mean ‘severing’ communities, cost thousands of potential new jobs and would be incapable of expanding in the future → Read More
GMP officers caught on camera encouraging victims of domestic abuse not to pursue their complaints
Audits of GMP body-worn footage revealed ‘really very concerning’ behaviour → Read More
Clean Air Zone: Burnham 'open to any solution' that cuts pollution without losing jobs
The mayor was speaking ahead of further expected talks with government → Read More
Live: Andy Burnham holds latest press conference on Covid-19
The mayor's briefing comes as he also seeks to increase the policing precept and hopes for further government negotiations over the Clean Air Zone → Read More
MI5 said Texas synagogue terrorist 'was not a threat' after 2020 investigation
Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, had been investigated by MI5 in 2020 → Read More
GMP computer system branded ‘absolute scandal’ could be ditched within weeks
The deputy mayor is due to consider options for Police Works, the frontline part of iOPS, in the coming days - two-and-a-half years after a flood of police whistleblowers first warned it was a risk to public safety → Read More
Mayor hints contentious Clean Air Zone plans could change
Ahead of a meeting with government, Andy Burnham suggested there could be an ‘alternative’ to the most controversial part of the plan → Read More
Michael Gove apologises to Greater Manchester for Downing Street parties
Reminded of how many times people here were placed in and out of confusing restrictions in 2020, the minister said simply: “Sorry.” → Read More
What’s really going on with the Greater Manchester's Clean Air Zone?
Plans to charge the most polluting vans, taxis, coaches and lorries to drive into or within Greater Manchester have sparked a political firestorm, five years after they first surfaced → Read More
BREAKING: Greater Manchester calls in military with hospitals yet to hit Omicron peak
Senior doctors say the system is just about holding together following the wide-scale pausing of non-urgent surgery. But with pressures still rising and one in seven staff off work, the army is now set to step in → Read More
Live: Andy Burnham holds press conference as Greater Manchester NHS comes under severe Covid pressure
The mayor will provide the latest figures for hospital admissions, which are said to have increased sharply in recent days → Read More