Andy Burnham vows action over 'distressing' footage of unlawfully-killed man being restrained by Metrolink-contracted workers

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direct to your inboxGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is teaming up with two Manchester football legends to raise awareness of suicide and help prevent more people from ending their own lives.Former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and his former player - and Manchester City managerial rival - Mark Hughes are backing a new partnership between the mayor and the League Managers Association (LMA).Members of the representative body for professional football managers in England will be

direct to your inboxIt started with a few traffic cones and some handwritten banners, and ended with a pensioner in handcuffs.NHS staff - frustrated by a decade of stagnated pay growth and exhausted from the pandemic - gathered in St Peter’s Square last Sunday to protest the Government’s 1 per cent pay offer.But within the space of ten minutes the ‘socially distanced and fully risk assessed’ NHS pay protest escalated from a fairly meagre gathering to front page news.

direct to your inboxA council leader in Greater Manchester has accused neighbouring authorities of ‘virtue signalling’ by urging the regional pension fund to divest from fossil fuels.High-ranking councillors in Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Stockport, Bury and Wigan want the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) to match the city-region’s target of becoming ‘zero carbon’ by 2038.Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, has also been asked to back their calls as part of his re-election

sent home from school over positive tests, Mr Burnham questioned whether there could be a more thorough testing procedure. He said: "If a lateral flow test shows a positive case there's a question whether it's right for someone to isolate at home on the back of that and not for a PCR test to confirm it's not a false positive."He said this might build more confidence in the system - and was something the Government should consider.

direct to your inboxAndy Burnham has asked Greater Manchester Police to review a £10,000 fine handed to the organiser of a NHS pay protest.Mental health worker Karen Reissmann was one of the organisers of an event to showcase anger over the Government's offer of a 1 per cent pay rise to NHS staff.She was one of several people who attended a 'socially-distanced and risk assessed' demonstration in St Peter's Square on Sunday afternoon (March 7) - which lasted less than ten minutes.Police issued Ms

direct to your inboxPolice federation bosses are threatening legal action over the government's decision not to give vaccine priority to officers.The Greater Manchester Police Federation says 11.8 per cent of the workforce has tested positive for Covid-19 during the pandemic, compared with 6 per cent of the general UK population.The numbers demonstrate how officers are at more risk of getting coronavirus as a result of their job, the Fed argues.The Government and its Joint Committee on Vaccine

direct to your inboxAndy Burnham has described Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget as a ‘packet of Polos’ boasting some ‘refreshing’ economic ideas - but with many policy-shaped holes.The mayor of Greater Manchester welcomed the extension of the furlough scheme, the Universal Credit uplift and grants for self-employed workers until September.The continuation of cuts to VAT and stamp duty, as well as a longer business rates holiday, were also seen as positive measures for the country’s post-pandemic

direct to your inboxWeaknesses in support for low-paid people who need to self-isolate risk both the government’s Covid-19 roadmap and Greater Manchester’s place within it, Andy Burnham has warned.The mayor said he had hoped government would strengthen the system as part of today’s Budget, but in the event, it was not mentioned.

straight to your inbox every day for freeOle Gunnar Solskjaer believes he might be a worse loser than Bruno Fernandes at Manchester United but is better at hiding his emotions than the midfielder.Fernandes struggles to contain his frustration when United fail to win games and his relentless pursuit of excellence has had a knock-on effect of some of his teammates at Old Trafford.Ever since his arrival last January Fernandes had admonished teammates on the pitch when he's believed it to be

concluded that Jack had been unlawfully killed, and that his death amounted to manslaughter. Mr Meadows said the four men who took part in the restraint process- Stephen Rowlands, Brian Gartside, Matt Sellars and Paul Fogarty - had acted with 'excessive' and 'unreasonable force.'All four men were contracted by Metrolink on a self-employed basis.

direct to your inboxHarrowing body cam footage shows a father begging to be let free as he was restrained by Metrolink-contracted staff in Manchester city centre - before he suffered a cardiac arrest and later died.Jack Barnes, 29, was pinned outside Australasia restaurant on Deansgate.The dad-of-one had been involved in an altercation with staff at Victoria Station, before he and a friend were chased to Spinningfields.Mr Barnes repeatedly told four customer service representatives (CSRs)

direct to your inboxA young dad who died after being restrained by Metrolink customer service staff in Manchester city centre was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded.Jack Barnes, 29, said 'I can't breathe' seven times as he was pinned down on his front after he had become involved in an altercation with staff.While being restrained outside Australasia restaurant on Deansgate, the dad-of-one suffered a cardiac arrest.He was transferred to hospital, but died seven weeks later having

direct to your inboxBus and taxi drivers and teachers over the age of 50 should be given Covid jabs at the half-empty mass vaccination centre at the Etihad, say local leaders.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has repeated calls on the government to give local authorities greater flexibility over how to use spare capacity at the site.Covid jabs are said to be ‘sitting in fridges’ as people belonging to the four groups on the government's vaccine priority list are waiting to be called

here.If there are concerns about rising infection rates locally, as is currently the case in Bury, Mr Burnham believes heads and leaders should be able to make the judgement 'not to close the schools per se, but to take perhaps a more phased approach to the return'.He added: "What we wouldn't want to see is the overruling of councils and schools as we saw in London before Christmas.