A woman who dropped to five stone during her anorexia battle could soon be crowned Miss England.
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Manchester could be ‘the best place to live in the country’ once HS2 has been completed — so long as it’s done in the right way, the Mayor has said.
Currently, leaders in Manchester — and across the North — are locked in a disagreement with the government over how it is best for the high-speed railway to connect the second city with the rest of the country. The latest row has come about after Ministers said they could not afford to build the promised underground Piccadilly HS2 station, which would instead be replaced by an overground terminus, with trains being brought in on unsightly concrete stilts .
That’s the wrong approach Andy Burnham told reporters, as he called on MPs to debate the issue in the House of Parliament. The Labour man also confirmed that authorities in the North are happy to explore the prospect of land value capture — an ‘innovative finance’ method, he said.
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Outlining the issues from the roof of Mayfield Depot, which sits next to Manchester Piccadilly station, Mr Burnham said: “They get bigger the closer to Manchester city centre you get. The government is proposing a cut-price scheme that brings HS2 in on stilts into Manchester city centre into Piccadilly and would take it out towards Yorkshire as Northern Powerhouse Rail in a similar construct of concrete flyover.
“We think it's unfair to the existing communities in East Manchester, but we also think it's wrong from a railway point of view. You know the issue we have here is congestion on the surface of the railway in Manchester city centre and what are we going to do? Add more trains into that mix?
“What we should do,
A woman who dropped to five stone during her anorexia battle could soon be crowned Miss England.
Both of the candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister launched stinging attacks on Andy Burnham during a hustings event in the city tonight (Friday)
The boss of scandal-hit train firm Avanti's parent company has been awarded a £1m share bonus while passengers suffer chaos on the railways and strikes continue, it's been revealed.
Work will begin on a new CYCLOPS junction in South Manchester next week. The busy Brooks Bar junction in Whalley Range, sees five lanes of traffic crossing and is a route into many areas south of the city.
Rishi Sunak has accused Andy Burnham of 'failing' to get a grip on crime in Greater Manchester - and has pledged to give councillors greater powers to hold mayors to account if he wins the race to Number 10. The comments come as Mr Sunak, who is trailing rival Liz Truss in the polls, heads to Manchester for a Tory hustings event on Friday.
Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy said ”It’s fine, I have had sex with 10,000 women” after allegedly raping a woman three times in his “locked” bedroom, a court heard.
Criticism has been aimed at drivers for blocking cycle lanes in Manchester, with increasing complaints over vehicles blocking the designated spaces.
Ryan Giggs told a jury that he and his former girlfriend 'clashed heads' as a 'tug of war' broke out following a row over their phones, as he denied deliberately headbutting her. The former Manchester United star spent his second day in the witness box at Manchester Crown Court on the eighth day of the trial.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is considering changing road laws so cyclists have to abide by 20mph speed limits or face penalties. Less than a fortnight after vowing to create a “death by dangerous cycling” law that will treat killer cyclists the same as motorists, Mr Shapps said he wanted to stop certain behaviour on the roads.
Police have released a CCTV image of an individual in connection with a theft in Wigan. Officers for Wigan West released the image after an appeal was made following the theft of a bike.
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after a string of knifepoint robberies in a park in Bolton.
The Woodhead Pass is blocked this morning after a crash between two lorries.
A train line between Manchester and Liverpool is blocked this morning due to emergency services dealing with an incident.
Travellers face a 'weekend of misery' as under-fire rail firm Avanti West Coat issued a 'do not travel warning' and slashed services. "It's going to be a nightmare", said one fed-up passenger as she waited to catch a train at sun-soaked Manchester Piccadilly.
Leaders in Greater Manchester have joined the Mayor of London in condemning Avanti West Coast to cut the number of services to and from the capital. City-region mayor, Andy Burnham, leader of Manchester City Council, Bev Craig, and London mayor, Sadiq Khan, have penned a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, asking for an urgent meeting to restore the full timetable.
Council leaders in Manchester have once again made an appeal to the government over plans for the HS2 network in Manchester.
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A huge Radcliffe call centre building which once employed hundreds is to be converted into a warehouse. Plans have been approved for extensive demolition and conversion work to be undertaken at the former O2, Capita and Tesco Mobile building off Dumers Lane in the town.