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Greater Manchester leaders are expecting the latest national lockdown to last longer than expected and remain skeptical about the effect it will have on rising Covid-19 cases.Mayor Andy Burnham and deputy mayor Sir Richard Leese say the success of the lockdown will depend on whether people follow the rules in the four weeks to December 2.Any benefits that arise from the lockdown are unlikely to be felt until after three weeks after it comes into place on Thursday morning, they said.Both leaders

Mayor Andy Burnham has written to the Prime Minister to reiterate local leaders' 'willingness' to finding an agreement about tighter lockdown rules.Mr Burnham also expresses disappointment at what he calls the government’s ‘selective use of statistics’.In a joint statement with leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese, the region's mayor said Greater Manchester’s ICU occupancy rate is 'not abnormal for this time of year'.They claim it is 'comparable to the occupancy rate in October

in their vision for a ‘vibrant’ zero-carbon neighbourhood.

negotiating with the government to keep the region out of the strictest 'tier 3' measures.Millions of people in the City of Liverpool region are to be subjected to the highest level of restrictions with bars and gyms expected to close.There could also be limits on travel and social contacts.Earlier today Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme: "The demography of Liverpool is very different to that of Greater Manchester."We recognise there are

hereIt's understood that Manchester's local leaders are still in discussions over Greater Manchester's status.The leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese told the BBC, as he said they hoped to remain in Tier 2.Mr Johnson will chair the emergency Cobra committee this morning, before addressing the Commons this afternoon.Mr Dowden told Sky News: "If those measures are successful we hope to be able to take areas out of those high levels of restrictions."The purpose of doing this is to

have been leaked to the Sunday national newspapers.According to the Sunday Times, mayors such as Andy Burnham and Liverpool's Joe Anderson have until midday today to finalise their requests.However, Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, told Times Radio there was a "large gulf" between the city and Government in ongoing discussions about further restrictions.He said: "We seem to have an almost impossible task of penetrating the Westminster bubble."Sir Richard said the council's

if the latest round of government funding falls short of what is needed to cover the outstanding deficit.

Manchester’s Covid situation is currently ‘nothing like Leicester’, the town hall’s bosses have said - but they warn the same situation could easily happen here if people do not take care when pubs open over the coming days.Council leader Sir Richard Leese said the city’s licensing team will be monitoring bars as they reopen tomorrow and ‘we will be closing them down’ if they are found to be breaking social distancing and other protective rules.“It is as simple as that,” he said at the

Restrictions on the hospitality sector will be lifted after midnight on July 4, but the government has pushed the reopening times back to prevent midnight parties being held.

Leeds and Liverpool.

Greater Manchester is to launch its own ‘track and trace’ system next Tuesday as pressure on the government to complete a national version ramps up.

Reopening schools to all pupils should be left to local authorities and headteachers and not Westminster, according to the leader of Manchester council.

Manchester is preparing for unemployment to rise by a third during the coronavirus crisis – as one council chief warned that the empty city centre looks like a ‘nuclear winter’.

The coronavirus crisis will cost Greater Manchester councils £541 million in extra costs and lost income, a town hall leader has said.

Greater Manchester is nearly at its coronavirus peak, its health chief has said, as admissions and deaths begin to level off.

A third of hospital beds across the region are now occupied by people with coronavirus, the region’s health chief has revealed.

Museums, art galleries, day centres and swimming pools could be shut as Manchester town hall looks to focus all its resources on ensuring vulnerable people are protected during the coronavirus outbreak.

Plans to tear down part of the hated ‘Berlin Wall’ in Piccadilly Garden have been approved by the city council’s executive.

The leader of Manchester city council, Sir Richard Leese, says Grants Shapps has given him a 'categorical confirmation' over the Manchester phase of rail link HS2.

Leader of Manchester Council Sir Richard Leese has said he doesn't think he should resign over the Manchester grooming scandal.