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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

straight to your inbox every day for freeDarren Fletcher has been appointed as Manchester United's new technical director. Fletcher rejoined United as a first-team coach in January but the MEN revealed in May 2019 the former midfielder attended a high-profile meeting as part of the club's proposed restructure.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United have finally appointed a football director in John Murtough, with Darren Fletcher installed as the technical director.Murtough was brought to United in November 2013 by then-manager David Moyes, having worked with Moyes at Everton, and became the club's head of football development in 2016.The Manchester Evening News understands Murtough introduced himself as United's 'director of football' when he oversaw the recruitment of the women's

direct to your inboxMore than 140 cases of Covid-19 have been found as part of localised mass testing in Manchester - though none involve a ‘variant of concern’ found in parts of the city so far.Testing programmes in the north and south of the city have been successful in the ongoing efforts to prevent people unknowingly spreading the virus.But public health officials are ‘frustrated’ with the speed at which positive tests are being analysed by laboratories to see if they matched the E484k

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direct to your inboxM.E.N. readers have reacted with fury after GMP dished out a £10,000 fine to an NHS worker who organised a protest over the government's one per cent pay offer Karen Reissmann, a mental health worker and Unison rep, was among those who turned up for the demonstration in St Peter's Square in Manchester city centre at midday on Sunday.

direct to your inboxA couple who work on the Covid-19 frontline say they are faced with the heartbreaking decision about whether they can afford to have their unborn baby.Both of them have worked as theatre assistants at hospitals in Greater Manchester during the pandemic, and receive £17,000 a year before tax.After paying for rent and bills on their two bedroom house in Gorton, they are left with just £100 to pay for food, clothes and other necessities.The couple, who have asked for their

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direct to your inboxMore than 30 new Covid-19 cases have been found in an area of north Manchester where a new strain of the virus was discovered. The cases were discovered as part of a mass testing programme to contain the further spread of the virus in Moston and Harpurhey, which is being wound down today (March 3).

direct to your inboxRapid coronavirus testing is being rolled out to anyone in Manchester unable to work from home and who have no access to asymptomatic testing at their workplace.From today (March 2) existing testing sites will be used as part of continued efforts to prevent Covid-19 from being spread by people who are unaware that they have the virus.Manchester council says around one in three people can have Covid-19 without knowing it.Testing will be offered on a twice-weekly basis from

In Tameside, the latest infection rate is 184.6 cases per 100,000 people and the number of cases has gone down by 12 per cent. There was a fall of 14 per cent in cases in Manchester over the week ending February 23.

for the easing of lockdown restrictions, starting from next month.

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Gary Gunas, executive producer of such Broadway musicals as The Who’s Tommy, Jekyll & Hyde and Ragtime, died today of pancreatic cancer at his home in London. He was 73.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United will be without members of the coaching staff for Sunday evening's match against Newcastle United due to them having to self-isolate, the club has announced. Following Thursday's successful trip to Turin which saw the 4-0 defeat of Real Sociedad, United return to Premier League action with the visit of Newcastle to Old Trafford.

Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the cityFive wings of Forest Bank prison in Salford are in lockdown due to a spate of coronavirus cases.The outbreak has resulted in proceedings in a major high-profile trial being delayed as defendants could not be produced to Manchester Crown Court from the jail.And a sentencing of two defendants in a two others cases at Manchester Crown Court was also postponed for the same reason.In a statement a spokesperson

direct to your inboxA new surge testing site will open in north Manchester as part of ongoing efforts to identify and isolate cases of a new Covid-19 variant. Thousands of people have been tested since four cases of E484K, a mutation of the Kent strain which has spread across the country, were found in Moss Side earlier this month.