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
Investigations
‘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
Exclusive: Documents show how Sacha Lord’s company obtained £400,000 of public money during the pandemic
…and that it requested £10,500 of emergency funding - to redesign a website
The Carlton Club saga: The Building Company speaks
‘They are actually squatting in our property, and they’re making money from that’
The high society artist and the insolvent nursery
‘She never understood that if it wasn't for her staff, if we weren't there, she would never have the money that she has now’
A rush of redundancies, multi-university lawfare and a Bentley-owning vice chancellor
The University of Bolton faces a moment of reckoning
Lawsuits, fraud claims and Greater Manchester’s links to a billion-pound property scandal
Our supported housing investigation identifies a curious jump in value for a property in Oldham
Exclusive: How did a semi in Harpurhey sell for £1.8m?
The council says it was ‘market manipulation’. We reveal the curious tale of a dramatic property flip
The new scam on the block targeting Manchester’s small businesses
‘They started to be aggressive, shouting at me down the phone’