New tenants at The Monastery

Dear Millers — we recently visited The Monastery in Gorton, a stunning Grade II listed former Fraciscian friary to meet its newest tenants: the Manchester Camerata. Dani went along to watch one of their Music Café workshops, and find out a bit about The Monastery’s history.

Yesterday we published a piece about drowned villages, reservoir anoraks and Greater Manchester’s water supply — it’s proved to be very popular. You can read that below.

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Wait... is Manchester running out of water?

Dear Millers — today’s piece is about Greater Manchester’s water supply. Most of you will have received emails and letters from United Utilities asking you to use less water recently, so we got Jack Dulhanty to find out what’s going on, and to explain where our water actually comes from. It’s a fascinating story of aqueducts, drowned villages and reserv…

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For Monday’s briefing, we’d like to speak to people being affected by the end of the furlough scheme. If you know of anyone who would like to chat, please send them to dani@manchestermill.co.uk.