Private schools, ‘population explosions’ and an unloved town centre
We visit a seat in Labour’s sights. Plus: An update in the Sacha Lord story as we’re accused of ‘tabloid click bait’
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The opportunist: How Sir Howard Bernstein bent Manchester to his will
An obituary for one of the city’s most influential figures
The new scam on the block targeting Manchester’s small businesses
‘They started to be aggressive, shouting at me down the phone’
Cracked kerbs and pained smiles
Sophie Atkinson discovers first-hand just how disability friendly Manchester is - or isn’t
Greater Manchester’s universities are at war
Plus, the story of a Czech Roma lorry driver who built a new life in Manchester
Labour get a shot at Galloway
‘I’m only doing this because I love my hometown, and like many Rochdalians, I’m sick of it being a bad news story in the Evening News.’
Exclusive: Did the Arts Council allow a woman close to Andy Burnham to assess Sacha Lord’s funding application?
There are serious questions about a conflict of interest at the body that gave Lord’s company over £400,000 of taxpayers’ money
Britain doesn’t have a second city
A little-known law states that neither Birmingham nor Manchester are big enough
Friedrich Engels gets a taste of the high life
Plus: Rochdale’s Lib Dem candidate defends a questionable endorsement
Clinging on in east Manchester
In the shadow of the Etihad Stadium, the Grey Mare Lane estate is full of memories for me: many happy, some violent and unthinkable. Soon it will be gone
In the coming election, Stockport might have that rare thing: a three-way marginal
‘I vote Conservative, and that’s because when the Conservatives are in, I make more money’
‘Massively moving’: Sir Mark Elder waves goodbye to Manchester
Plus: A big new poll predicts wipeout for the Conservatives
The never-ending editor: What drove Harry Evans?
By the 1990s, he moved in a rarefied world of movie stars and statesmen. But Britain’s greatest modern newspaperman drew his campaigning zeal from his upbringing in Manchester
‘It’s basically a f*** you to the left’: Labour’s candidate selections are going down well
Plus: The gorgeous ginnel gardens of Moss Side