The water company has a monopoly on the North West and the worst performance on sewage spills in the country. An expert says we still may not know the true extent of the environmental damage it’s inflicting.
It was the world’s first industrial estate - now it feels like an afterthought
‘Good morning sir, here is a bag for your belongings. Anything that is left will go in the bin’
For almost 20 years, Tim Phelps has been working to keep the library not just beautiful, but functional.
Meanwhile, university vice chancellor George Holmes starts planning a party to celebrate his 20th work anniversary
Years of meticulously researched stories into vice chancellor George Holmes amounted to nothing. And then our reporter stumbled upon a strange-looking contract.
A bold Caryl Churchill double bill has shaken the theatre out of its stupor
EXCLUSIVE: Senior executives at the university tried to divert hundreds of thousands in tuition fees into a private company which one of them owns
‘You cannot convert that building. I can’t emphasise that enough’
Plus: The University of Manchester goes big on EDI
What is the University of Greater Manchester trying to hide?
He’s gone “with immediate effect” following our reporting last week
Urban planning can be complicated and tedious — but it’s essential to understand it if we want to solve the housing crisis
The strange story of how a marketing man from Milton Keynes turned a university into his poison-filled fiefdom
Plus: Why Howard Bernstein was our Robert Moses and 60 identical phone shops in Jack’s writer’s edition