Music venues saved, charges coming in Rochdale and concern about Manchester's 'metropolitan elite'
This week's news briefing
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Exclusive: Arrests made in a major new Rochdale grooming investigation
The Mill learned about the probe this week
Meet the secretive Manchester tech firm whose clients are spies
'We operate across intelligence, national security and law enforcement' they told us
Boohoo's share price plunges as 'sweatshop' scandal engulfs the Manchester company
Plus layoffs at MEN and a lifeline for the arts
A crisis at The Royal Exchange and the threat to British theatre
'You can feel it around - the fear'
North West deaths drop below the five year average
A big moment in the lockdown, and the other news you need to know about this week
Disappearing students, missed clues and a secret trafficking scandal that rocked England's private schools
Dozens of teenagers arrived from Vietnam. Then they vanished.
Are a third of Manchester's pubs, clubs and restaurants about to go bust?
Sacha Lord says they might - and the rest of our weekly briefing
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Revealed: The North West's Oxbridge feeder schools
We worked out which schools in the region got the most offers from Oxford and Cambridge. Manchester Grammar, Loreto, Runshaw, Winstanley and Withington Girls' lead the list
From Maryland to Manchester: the extraordinary story of James Watkins, fugitive slave
'I was followed and hunted by the civilised Americans, as they would hunt a wild beast'
My long afternoon trying to verify a viral video of a racist attack on a Chinese takeaway
It's been called 'The ugly face of corona related racism'
