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Ethan Davies

Manchester

Local Democracy Reporter of the year 2024 🏆 Journalist covering Manchester council and the Greater Manchester mayor. Own views.

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  • 5 days ago | msn.com | Joseph Timan |Ethan Davies

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 5 days ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Ethan Davies |Nick Jackson |George Lythgoe

    These are all the significant planning application put before councils across Greater Manchester recentlyA huge redevelopment in one town centre is one of many significant plans tabled with councils across Greater Manchester this week. In Bolton, Crompton Place has been a mainstay for decades, but soon it could make way for change. It was opened as an Arndale Centre in 1971 before being renamed in 1989 after the Bolton-born industrialist Samuel Crompton, inventor of the cotton spinning mule.

  • 1 week ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Chris Gee |Ethan Davies |Nick Jackson |George Lythgoe |Charlotte Hall

    An expansion of Manchester’s Co-op Live arena is one of the marquee planning developments across the city-region recently. The UK's largest indoor arena wants to capitalise on its success with a new canal side terrace featuring a bar, café and merchandise stalls. The idea behind the proposal is to provide an extra food and drinks venue with ‘attractive views’ over the canal.

  • 3 weeks ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Ethan Davies

    It's for a 'vital job'Drivers are facing disruption this weekend as Mancunian Way will be closed for most of Saturday and Sunday. The council has confirmed the A57(M) and A635(M), and its slip roads, will close from 5am on Saturday (June 7) to 7pm on Sunday (June 8). It will be closed in both directions from the Chester Road roundabout to Fairfield Street.

  • 3 weeks ago | manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Ethan Davies

    'Far too high'Nearly half of Mancunian schoolchildren face a ‘devastating ill’. Official Department for Education data has revealed 47.2pc of school pupils were eligible for free school meals in the city as of January 2025. That was the highest proportion in the country, with the lowest being only 3pc in the Isles of Scilly.

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Ethan Davies
Ethan Davies @EthanDaviesMEN
4 Jun 25

You wait for one bus announcement and loads come along at once *Stockport tram is ON *Three new tram stops and “new” interchanges coming *1000 new Bee Network buses

Joseph Timan
Joseph Timan @josephtiman

1,000 new buses, three new tram stops, and a huge Metrolink announcement @EthanDaviesMEN @MENnewsdesk https://t.co/M8oaaqyutP

Ethan Davies
Ethan Davies @EthanDaviesMEN
15 May 25

Well I never - video was taken a few mins before posting, I'm told, so looks like people were completely avoiding it in early rush hour. Fingers crossed it's not too bad now

Walk Ride GM
Walk Ride GM @WalkRideGM

Thank you @MENnewsdesk for getting the word out about the road closure to transform Chapel Street. It looks like people are finally getting the message and making alternative plans. https://t.co/l5DPf9iMbp

Ethan Davies
Ethan Davies @EthanDaviesMEN
13 May 25

I've had a fun morning. https://t.co/O0Y3QyEykg