The Global Banking School is one of the UK’s most lucrative ‘universities’. But who’s footing the bill?
Former staff allege the school accepts students who have no intention of ever repaying their loans
Investigations
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
Exclusive: The contract that gives Sheikh Mansour first dibs on Manchester
Plus: Mark Garner explains the sudden implosion of his website Confidentials
A murder of crows: how a blog post deepened the conflict inside Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust
The board says it’s committed to transparency, critics say it prefers ambiguity
He ran a popular Manchester bar. Three women say he assaulted them
The owner of Sammy’s Bar is accused of ‘taking advantage of vulnerable women’
Exclusive: Andy Burnham, Sacha Lord and the missing charity cash
‘Nothing underhanded has gone on here’
George Holmes suspended as vice chancellor as the police move in
GMP is investigating ‘allegations of financial irregularities’ at the University of Greater Manchester
The Casablanca Deal: Secret contracts and unexplained payments at the University of Greater Manchester
EXCLUSIVE: Senior executives at the university tried to divert hundreds of thousands in tuition fees into a private company which one of them owns
‘I’ll sack who I want’: Inside the chaotic, mutinous new University of Greater Manchester
The strange story of how a marketing man from Milton Keynes turned a university into his poison-filled fiefdom
Exclusive: How the GMCA flunked its own investigation into Sacha Lord
For months, officers have promised to publish their findings into their night time economy advisor
Breaking: Sacha Lord has resigned as an advisor to Andy Burnham
The Arts Council wants his company Primary Events to pay back the taxpayers’ money it obtained during the pandemic
Manchester planning director’s jazzercise for charity raised £50k — from developers
One had filed an application for a controversial tower just before
Murder in the playground: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah’s complicated legacy
It's been nearly forty years since an Asian boy was stabbed to death by his white classmate in Burnage. Whether the killing was racially motivated remains strangely contentious to this day
They set out to create a ‘more equal Greater Manchester’. Then they made half their staff redundant before Christmas
‘You could see where this was going. We didn’t have the control to stop it’
Did Wigan Council lie about why it let go of Haigh Hall's creative directors?
The massive renovation project was meant to be transformative for the town. Now, its future looks uncertain