The Baroness and the banker: more questions the University of Greater Manchester doesn’t want to answer
The university has paid millions to a company controlled by a senior staff member and the wife of its chair of governors
Mollie Simpson
Mollie is an investigative reporter. In 2025, she won the local journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards for her reporting on the University of Greater Manchester.
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