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Manchester City have named Sir Richard Leese as a new honorary president of the club.

The knock-on effects of the latest coronavirus peak will be felt for 'some months' by NHS hospital and care services, Manchester's public health director has warned. However, the country is now cresting the wave of infections and should see a decline.

Covid-19 is once more piling pressure on an already strained NHS, according to Greater Manchester health chiefs. Staff absences as a result of coronavirus are seeing shortages in hospitals, GP surgeries, and community care.

Manchester must build 36,000 new homes across the city over the next 10 years to keep up with demand – and 10,000 of them should be affordable. That is the town hall's take on what the city must do to tackle its housing crisis.

A Grenfell Tower Inquiry chief has been appointed as the new boss of the NHS in Greater Manchester - as the health service undergoes sweeping changes.

The tension in the room was rising as the votes were being counted.

Andy Burnham has unveiled a shake-up of roles and responsibilities which the leaders of each council in Greater Manchester have within his mayoral team.

Manchester council has appointed a new leader for the first time in a quarter of a century.

Manchester council’s new leader is under no illusions. On Tuesday morning, the eve of stepping into Sir Richard Leese’s shoes at the top of the town hall, she admits to some trepidation.

A council boss has revealed 'serious concerns' over the NHS crisis - but says calling in the army will not help hospitals.

Outgoing Manchester council chief Sir Richard Leese will take charge of the NHS in the region as he becomes chair of a major new health board, it has been announced.

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Manchester’s veteran town hall leader Sir Richard Leese will stand down from the top job at the start of December, the M.E.N. can reveal.

Headteachers and parents are 'crying out for help' with more and more children being sent home from schools in Greater Manchester.

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that the effects of the national lockdown may be wearing off.At a press conference today, Sir Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester council ad the region's health lead, admitted our infection rates are 'not going down fast enough'.He pointed to Bury where there has been several days of positive cases increasing and said while it’s 'too early to say' if it is a trend, it is an ‘area of concern’.Bolton is once again the borough with the highest infection rate in Greater Manchester with 236.5

direct to your inboxManchester council says that cuts of £41m will now be needed to balance its books for the coming year, though millions could still be wiped from homelessness spending.Council tax, seen as ‘regressive’ by council leader Sir Richard Leese, is still expected to rise by almost five per cent to prevent cuts to vital frontline services while demand is increasing.Extra government funding has meant that a worse case scenario of a £103m shortfall - caused by huge losses of income and

direct to your inboxAndy Burnham held his latest press conference yesterday giving the very latest situation on the coronavirus situation in our region.The Mayor was joined by the region's health lead, Sir Richard Leese, and deputy mayor Baroness Beverley Hughes. From infection rates to vaccines and a lockdown exit, the press conference covered all facets of where Greater Manchester currently stands in its fight against the virus.

direct to your inboxManchester council could change the way it discusses climate change issues in a move that has been welcomed by environmental campaigners.A petition signed by more than 1,700 people called for a new committee to be established to measure Manchester's targets of becoming a zero carbon city by 2038.Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester council, suggested that the remits of existing scrutiny committees could be reviewed to make more space for climate change debate.But he

direct to your inboxGreater Manchester’s hospitals have almost run out of intensive care beds at points over the last couple of weeks, the region’s health lead has revealed, as the system has hit its peak of the third wave.Sir Richard Leese said that at times, critical care occupancy had come ‘very close to the absolute number of beds we’ve currently got available’.In the last week there has been a dip in admissions, however, and the third wave is now believed to have peaked within the NHS here

direct to your inboxThe Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is to open emergency Covid beds for adults in a sign of the unprecedented pressure facing Greater Manchester’s hospitals.Sir Richard Leese, the region’s health chief, said the situation in the system was now ‘critical’ as NHS bosses have scrambled to discharge as many people as possible ahead of a sustained peak over the coming three weeks.Crisis meetings have been held to determine the ability to scale up beds, as Salford Royal and

direct to your inboxGreater Manchester's hospitals are at risk of 'falling over' in the next three weeks due to an 'unprecedented' surge in Covid cases, the region's health chief has warned - meaning cancer operations are very likely to be cancelled.Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, painted a bleak picture of the next few weeks in our hospital system, pointing to a 'phenomenal' increase in admissions as medics brace for the third

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Mancunians who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 will be given a place to help them remember and deal with their trauma 'when circumstances allow', the city’s leader has said.More than 55,000 people have died from the virus since March - with people in Manchester accounting for over 540 deaths.Sir Richard Leese said it was 'absolutely vital' to provide a space where those affected could remember and deal with their loss, though it remains unclear what form it could take.The leader of Manchester

Both Wigan and Stockport’s NHS trusts had already taken that decision in the past fortnight as both had come under increasing pressure. On Wednesday the region’s health lead Sir Richard Leese indicated that that move was likely to happen more broadly across the system in November - as hospitals dealt with a ‘very, very worrying’ level of pressures - and last night the M.E.N.

Andy Burnham said he had never known the ambulance service see a major incident during November of the kind it saw on Monday, warning this was ‘the first big sign of what is happening here in our hospitals and the challenge that colleagues are facing’.