Nigel Barlow

1 week ago | aboutmanchester.co.uk | Nigel Barlow

The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced that prison officers will be told to wear body armor in some sections of high security jails, after the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi attacked three officers with boiling cooking oil. New protective vests will be made mandatory for prison officers working in Close Supervision Centres and Separation Centres which hold the most dangerous offenders in the estate.

1 week ago | aboutmanchester.co.uk | Nigel Barlow

No tram services will run via Piccadilly Gardens from today until the 11th August as essential track replacement work between Piccadilly station and Piccadilly Gardens beginsThe work has been planned for the summer as it is outside of the football season and also partly falls within the school holidays, when the tram network is less busy say TFGMKey changes to services are as follows:Trams on the Altrincham/Bury lines won’t serve Piccadilly Gardens or Piccadilly station.

1 week ago | aboutmanchester.co.uk | Nigel Barlow

A report out this morning is warning the government needs to set a clearer long-term direction, with regional planning and stronger regulation against water firms’ “monopolies.”The interim report by the Independent Water Commission recommends clearer direction from government, stronger regulation of water companies, bringing decisions on water systems closer to local communities, and greater focus on responsible, long-term investors.

1 week ago | aboutmanchester.co.uk | Nigel Barlow

Keir Starmer has said that the UK was facing a “new era in the threats that we face” as he referred to “new nuclear risks” and “growing Russian aggression in our waters, menacing our skies”. Launching the UK’s defence review from a shipyard on the River Clyde in Glasgow the Prime Minister said that the defence review will provide “unity of purpose” to the nation’s armed forces and to the wider population.

1 week ago | aboutmanchester.co.uk | Nigel Barlow

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has criticised the Government in a speech in what some are saying is a bid to be the next Labour leader In the speech at the Compass’ gathering at London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub on Saturday, the Mayor warned Kier Starmer’s party of its “reluctance to show courage or conviction” Compass’s director Neal Lawson opened the day by hailing Burnham as “by far and away the most popular person to be the next leader of the Labour Party” Burnham set out a...