"This is a little like playing Manchester United - you get a couple extra minutes when you play them..."
Update on progress towards a 'city-region' of Greater Manchester - with its own version of Transport for London...
This is terrible. Can anything be done to avoid this catastrophe?...
The government is currently asking the regions for its views on what its priorities for high-speed rail should be. And I understand they will take seriously any suggestion that a Mancheste...
By Friday lunchtime, we will know whether the National Football Museum is staying in Preston or moving to Manchester...
Later, executive member Mike Amesbury addressed other Labour members as 'comrades'. This caused much amusement among the Lib Dems. They pointed out that they described each other as 'colleagues',...
HARRIET Harman has demanded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger closes down a website where men ‘review’ British prostitutes. The deputy Labour leader said the site - based in the America...
HOSPITAL car parking charges for inpatients and their families will be phased out 'within three years' under Labour, Andy Burnham pledged . The health secretary said it was 'not right' that peo...
PHIL Woolas has admitted Labour has a 'mountain to climb' to win the next election but said Gordon Brown's key conference speech had given them a fighting chance. The Oldham East and Saddlewort...
THIRTY minutes to the biggest speech in Gordon Brown's life, and the omens are not good. Doleful-looking delegates sit in their seats and exchange whispered words.
GORDON Brown launched his Labour fight back with a one-man manifesto including a referendum on proportional representation and supervised homes for teen mums on benefits. The prime minist...
BRITAIN will be presented with its "biggest choice for a generation" at next year's general election, Gordon Brown said in his last conference speech before the poll expected in the spring. The...
JACK Straw has pledged to set up a national service to support families of murder and manslaughter victims. The justice secretary said the new National Victims Service would eventually be rolle...
A GOVERNMENT minister has accused the Conservatives of drawing up 'secret plans' to hike rents for people in social housing. John Healey, the housing minister, told the party conference in Brig...
GORDON Brown put a huge crackdown on booze-fuelled yob culture at the heart of his make-or-break speech. In measures targeted at the underclasses highlighted in the TV show Shameless, the prime...
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