Most countries failing to protect women from COVID-19 economic and social fallout
The COVID-19 pandemic is “hitting women hard”, but most nations are failing to provide sufficient social and economic protection for them, the head of...
Council pledges more food help for hard-hit families
Families facing food shortages are to be given a further helping hand from Rochdale Council
The charity Family Action will use £30,000 of funding to...
Plans submitted for memorial to Manchester Arena terror victims
A planning application for the memorial to those who lost their lives in the 22 May 2017 Manchester terror attack has been submitted today.
A...
Wythenshawe motorcyclist dies in hospital four days after Rochdale smash
A 31-year-old motorcyclist from Wythenshawe has died in hospital four days after he was involved in a smash in Rochdale
He was riding a white and...
Burnham-“People are becoming increasingly confused and frustrated by complex and contradictory lockdown rules”
People are becoming increasingly confused and frustrated by complex and contradictory lockdown rules, the Mayor of Greater Manchester has warned.
National and local rule changes...
NHS Test and Trace still has a huge amount to do to meet its...
A new long read blog issued today by NHS Providers - Testing and Tracing: 12 tests of winter - makes clear that NHS Test...
Green apologises for not let good crisis go to waste remarks
MP for Stretford and Urmston and Shadow education secretary Kate Green has apologised for comments relating to the Covid-19 pandemic in which she said...
“Move universities online now” – UCU’s demand to PM
The Universities and College Union (UCU) has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to urge him to make online learning universities' default position, protect...
MRI treats first UK Covid patient to be treated with experimental arthritis drug
The first UK patient has been treated in new COVID-19 research trialling the impact of an experimental drug, otilimab, on severe lung disease related...
Documentary sheds light on Freddie’s Bulimia secret
In the early 2000s Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff rose to fame as one of the most extraordinarily gifted cricketers of his generation, with a personality...