‘My mental health suffered significantly’
Greater Manchester sees the end of the furlough scheme this week, plus the rest of your weekly briefing
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A heated battle over the Green Belt reaches its climax in Greater Manchester
1,754 hectares of protected land are set to be released for development - and there are as many rows brewing
Wait... is Manchester running out of water?
‘If you are used to seeing it full, an empty reservoir can come as a shock’
A gorgeous literary hate letter to Manchester
The misery of Michel Butor’s Mancunian anti-detective fiction
Buyers getting ‘plenty of property for their money’ in Tameside
Plus the rest of your weekly briefing
‘They come into your lives and tell you everything, and then disappear’
Meet the five-generation funeral directors; radical politics and domestic terrorism in Manchester; and the death of a political giant
‘They come into your lives and tell you everything, and then disappear’
We spoke to a family firm who have looked after Manchester’s dead for over 140 years
Underground publishing and domestic terrorism in 1970s Manchester
‘My research took me to the Magic Village, a club opened in March 1968 by DJ and music aficionado Roger Eagle in a dank Dickensian cellar in Cromford Court’
Remembering Peter Smith, a quiet giant of Greater Manchester politics
‘Peter put down his bacon sandwich, took a sip of tea and asked: “What are you in politics for if not to do the big stuff?”’
From a Brazilian cult to sexual liberation in Manchester
‘They made it feel like you belonged to something. I don’t remember being this happy in all my life’
‘If I imagined there was some sort of neat ending point, I would be here forever’
Sir Richard Leese tells us about his decision to step down, and we visit ‘the ghost estate’
Hanging on the word of Manchester’s amateur weatherman
Plus: The city’s political weather changes overnight as Sir Richard Leese steps down
