Salford mayor Ian Stewart to stand down – Hazel Blears tipped as replacement
Hazel Blears is being touted as a potential replacement for Salford’s elected mayor as Ian Stewart has announced his plans to stand down in 2016.
Hazel Blears is being touted as a potential replacement for Salford’s elected mayor as Ian Stewart has announced his plans to stand down in 2016.
A Green Party representative has called Manchester’s devolution deal a surprise to most Mancunians.
Chancellor George Osborne has recently announced that Greater Manchester is to have an elected mayor, two years after the city had voted against having one.
A leading Ukip politician has slammed plans announced earlier this week to give extra powers to Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester is set to have a directly elected mayor who will preside over regional issues, George Osborne has announced.
A balaclava-wearing man struck the mayor’s driver with the hammer as he placed a briefcase containing the chains into the boot of a car at around 10.15pm in the Stand Lane area of Radcliffe.
The Bishop of Manchester warned there is still a ‘way to go’ to win the global gay rights battle as a plaque was unveiled to mark 50 years since a pioneering gay rights movement was launched in the city.
A plaque commemorating the 50-year anniversary of the birth of Manchester’s gay rights movement will be unveiled today at Church House.
Manchester’s Lord Mayor is urging people to donate funds to help in the Gaza crisis as fighting resumed this weekend in the region.
North West MEP Afzal Khan has condemned all anti-Semitic behaviour after volatile pro-Palestine demonstrations outside a Jewish-run store in Manchester.
Recent developments in the middle-east have seen a rising death toll and worsening tensions between Israel and Palestinian Gaza.
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