Mayors need radical housing powers to prevent London-style housing crisis
Greater Manchester's newly devolved Mayor should will need far-reaching new powers, including control over the green belt, to prevent a London-style housing crisis occurring.
That's...
Preparing for HS2-Report out today extols the benefits for Greater Manchester
A new report out today Changing Britain: HS2 taking root outlines how years before the first train runs, high speed rail is becoming a...
Rayner slams Government’s about turn on academies
After the Government announced yesterday that it would dropping plans to convert all schools to academies, announced in the Queen's speech.
Angela Rayner, Labour’s Shadow...
BBC Radio 3 tears up the schedule for longest ever music broadcast
BBC Radio 3 will broadcast 12 hours of music without any speech for the first time ever, as part of its 70th anniversary celebrations.
Radio...
Greater Manchester’s Mayor slams local government austerity cuts
Greater Manchester’s Mayor Tony Lloyd has slammed the government’s austerity agenda for penalising the poor.
An Institute of Fiscal Studies report, published today, shows that...
Museum of Jurassic Marine Life opens in Kimmeridge
The Museum is displaying the greatest collection of marine fossils ever assembled in Britain.
Thanks to National Lottery players, the extraordinary Etches Collection is accessible...
The ultimate part time job?
Most part-time jobs will include long hours, awful pay and if you’re lucky, you might have a window to look out of, but five...
Black Barnardo’s children celebrated in online exhibition
Barnardo’s children from Black backgrounds are celebrated in an interactive online exhibition as part of the UK’s Black History Month throughout October.
The online exhibition...
New figures reveal overseas visitors to heritage are driving the UK’s tourism economy
A new report from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) shows that overseas visitors to the UK’s cultural, historic and natural heritage attractions spend more than...
New lease of life for world’s first assembly line
It put into motion a process now used by industries across the globe, but the world’s first purpose-built assembly line building is a hidden...