Read the Mancunian Way newsletter for Thursday July 28, 2022
Keep up to date with all the big stories from across Greater Manchester in the daily Mancunian Way newsletter.Here is today's Mancunian Way:If you’ve been to the city centre in recent days you’ll have noticed the big concrete blocks peppering part of the Northern Quarter. Meanwhile there are plans for a whopping great skyscraper off Great Ancoats Street and to pedestrianise Stevenson Square.
Harry Gray, of Walk Ride GM, says the strategy is ‘completely flawed’. "This pits cyclists against pedestrians by putting both on a tight road which doesn't help anybody,” he told reporter Lyell Tweed. "The huge concrete blocks are ridiculous, they're blocking nearly half of the road when the whole point of this is to open up space.” Manchester Council said the project needs time to ‘bed in’.
Contact via Vietnam Detectives are said to be exploring the possibility that human trafficking played a part in the Oldham mill tragedy. Police are trying to trace ‘potential’ family members in Vietnam. Officials from the Vietnamese embassy have also been drafted in to help with the investigation and to assist with identifying the deceased.Roads closed: Delph New Road, Dobcross, in both directions for roadworks between Wall Hill Road and Oldham Road until August 5. Eccles New Road eastbound due to roadworks from Weaste Road to Langworthy Road, until October 24.
Boris Johnson's proposal to slash the NPR budget by £24.9bn, with upgrades replacing plans for a new line, has gone down badly among Northern leaders. The region's mayors say building NPR in full is ‘critical to unlocking the full potential of the Northern economy in the 21st century and levelling us up with the South’.
Mr Tarry - who is in a relationship with deputy Labour leader and Ashton-under-Lyne MP Angela Rayner - said it had been a ‘privilege’ to serve on Labour’s top team.
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