Manchester Airport’s new drive-through coronavirus testing centre is not enough on its own, local leaders have warned - but they say government is stopping them from opening more.
25.03.2020 - 20:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A hotel in Manchester has come under fire from Andy Burnham for removing homeless people who had been staying there in a bid to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The ‘extremely disappointed’ mayor for Greater Manchester claimed that Britannia Hotels removed people from the premises yesterday (March 24) and left them ‘with nowhere to go’.
This happened after the hotel had agreed to put people up as part of a £5m plan to house up to a thousand people sleeping rough rough sleepers and those in
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