'Fraught with difficulties': Hancock's Local lockdowns get double panning from Mayors of Manchester and Liverpool

Greater Manchester Police is cancelling leave for many of its officers this weekend as it steps up patrols to oversee the reopening of pubs and prevent further illegal raves.A ‘significant operation’ is planned across the region on Saturday July 4, the day when bars and restaurants will open for the first time in more than three months.Mayor Andy Burnham says there will be an increased police presence in cities and towns but the force’s approach will not be ‘heavy handed’.He said: "GMP will have

Greater Manchester is a ‘long, long way’ from having to introduce local lockdowns like Leicester - but leaders have stopped short of ruling them out entirely.Mayor Andy Burnham said the region ‘will be doing everything’' to avoid local restrictions as new figures showed Covid-19 infection rates in some boroughs were higher than expected.Rochdale, the ‘worst case scenario locally’, has reported 28.8 cases per 100,000, which is less than a quarter of the 135 reported in Leicester.Cases across

coronavirus lockdown.

Tight lockdown restrictions have been reimposed in Leicester as the city sees a spike in coronavirus cases.Non-essential shops will close from tomorrow (Tuesday 30) and schools will close to most pupils on Thursday (2 July), Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.The city has recorded 866 new cases of coronavirus in the last two weeks.Mr Hancock said the easing of the lockdown planned for the rest of England on July 4 cannot happen in Leicester because of rising cases.He said: “Given the growing

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double murder investigation is underway after shots were fired at around 12.55am on Sunday (June 21).

despite local residents telling the MEN that it was attended by up to 200 people and had a DJ, PA system and gazebos. His comments came after Greater Manchester Police also insisted that the shooting happened at 'an unplanned, spontaneous gathering' and not a rave.

The number of hospital patients dying from Covid in Greater Manchester has halved this week, from 28 to 14.Andy Burnham outlined the latest trends here at his weekly press conference, in which he also highlighted a ‘significant reduction’ in patients in intensive care, adding: “The overall picture is moving in the right direction.”The number of new cases appears to have currently stabilised at between 200 and 250 a week, compared to the height of the crisis, when numbers were closer to

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Mr Justice Saunders refused the application, but said they would still have a voice and encouraged them to contribute.

warned headteachers away from welcoming more pupils back.

Plans for a 200km network of temporary cycle lanes have been boosted after Manchester council agreed to work with neighbouring boroughs proposing routes into the city.Greater Manchester has tabled a £21.5m bid for government funding to cover the pop-up lanes - which will cover 94km of major roads - and wider measures to improve walking and cycling in the city-region.Mayor Andy Burnham said the final decision rested with local leaders and stressed that the current proposals were ‘not the finished

here"In the first instance, local action will be in hospitals or care homes where there is an individual outbreak", Mr Hancock said."We will try to be as localised as possible.

United We Stream website.All proceeds from the event will go towards funding community groups and other organisations which have been affected by the coronavirus shutdown.The mayors have already enjoyed a friendly spot of trash talking, with Rotheram hailing Liverpool’s global status as the home of The Beatles.He said his DJ set would cement Liverpool’s place as the “centre of the known musical universe”.But Burnham hit back: “Let’s face it, if we had excluded music from the 1960s there would be