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What should be done about Manchester city centre?

4 days ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton

Three years ago, Andy Burnham held a press conference that captured the hard choices at the heart of Manchester city centre. On the one hand, the mayor said that the number of people sleeping rough was rising, and that he had signed off on extra funds to create more emergency housing for the homeless.
On Manchester City Council's most powerful committee, the north of the city is barely represented

6 days ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

Dear readers — there’s not been much local political news to chew over these past few weeks, seeing that most of Greater Manchester’s boroughs aren’t hosting local elections. So in the absence of the usual cut-and-thrust of electioneering, jealousies and upsets, we have decided to get into the nitty gritty of Manchester Council’s executive committee. It follows a reader getting in touch with a very interesting observation.
The John Rylands Library is in crisis. Is Christopher Pressler to blame?

1 week ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Mollie Simpson

In 2018, the John Rylands Library welcomed a new leader, whose arrival was said to herald an exciting new chapter for the city. Christopher Pressler, 46, was described as “an exceptional appointment for Manchester” by university registrar Patrick Hackett, who said that one of his key strengths was “leading innovation in the way in which students, researchers and the public access knowledge”.
The £60 million loan: Did Trafford Council bet on the wrong skyscraper?

2 weeks ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

Dear readers — today we have a dispatch from Manchester’s bustling world of property development. This past week the small-knit community of people throwing up skyscrapers, and throwing millions of pounds around in the process, have had one particular development on their lips: the CIS Tower. The tower, which was built in 1962 and is grade II listed, has been empty since 2020 and its London-based developer is struggling to get its refurbishment off the ground.
'Sacha Lord's pandemic money'

2 weeks ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Dear Millers – what a beautiful weekend we're having. I promise to keep this email brief so that I don't detain you from enjoying the sun. It's coming up to five years since I started The Mill (our birthday is on June 5th, please direct cakes and gifts to our newsroom), and from the beginning, I've sent you occasional editor's notes on a Sunday afternoon to mark big moments.
Pyramid scheme

3 weeks ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Walton

"As for all men who shall enter this my tomb... impure... there will be judgment... an end shall be made for him... I shall seize his neck like a bird... I shall cast the fear of myself into him" — inscription on the tomb of Khentika Ikhekhi (sixth dynasty); Jack Walton, 19 April 2025, in the back of a taxiI’ll say this: I enjoyed myself in the taxi. When my bobble-hat-headed driver asked, “Where you off to, mate?” I’d had my line prepared days in advance. “Valley of the Kings, boss.
How a Manchester mental health ward neglected a suicidal patient

4 weeks ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Jack Dulhanty

Dear readers — today’s story covers the inquest into the death of Charlotte Sophia Parry, a 27-year-old who tragically took her own life while on an acute psychiatric ward in Wythenshawe in 2022. The inquest looked at whether neglect by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust contributed to Charlotte’s death. The piece features references to suicide and self harm and discretion is advised. If you are having thoughts of suicide or are concerned that someone you know may be, find help here.
NIAMOS has lived many lives. Is this its last?

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Mollie Simpson

It’s a warm spring evening, and I’m walking through Hulme towards NIAMOS, where tufts of weeds grow through the cracks in the concrete. The sign is missing an M, and there’s a door open: I step through and hear the Untold Orchestra rehearsing an arrangement of Ain’t Nobody. There’s a large common room, filled with mismatched sofas, a piano, buckets filled with cluttered dirty dishes from recent communal meals, alongside a note gently asking people to clean up after themselves.
Free jazz, motorcycles and lost bands: why did we forget the Manchester Music Collective?

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Daniel Dylan Wray
Why are companies leaving MediaCity?

1 month ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Mollie Simpson

Dear readers — from an outsider’s point of view, MediaCity is an extraordinary success story — 37 acres of film and TV studios, riverside restaurants, concert halls and a university. How did a former dockyard that once had water so filthy and polluted it occasionally caught fire attract millions of pounds of private and public funding, thousands of BBC executives and dozens of high rise apartment blocks? In today’s piece, we tell the other side of the story.