In total 33 elected member places on the Council will be contested – one in each of the city’s 32 wards (representing one third of the council) plus an additional vacancy in Fallowfield ward where a sitting councillor has stepped down. Voters are being urged
Building works are now underway on the first homes for Salford City Council’s new housing company, Dérive, providing much-needed affordable accommodation to rent. Dérive has bought eight two and three-bedroomed homes off plan from Great Places Housing Group at its mixed tenure development at Duchy
Clinicians at Wythenshawe Hospital, part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, will soon be launching a new initiative to help improve early diagnosis for lung cancer and other respiratory conditions across North and East Manchester. Manchester’s ‘Lung Health Checks’ will tackle poor early diagnosis and
After a year of careful planning, the motorway bridge was finally erased from the landscape in under 12 hours – some six hours ahead of schedule. A fascinating time lapse video has now been released which reveals the work involved in demolishing the bridge including