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The Manchester Briefing from The Mill — 167 episodes

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We take a tour of Burnham's new digs

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The IRA men behind the Manchester bomb: Unravelling a 30-year mystery

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Is Burnham in trouble in Makerfield?

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Political scientist Rob Ford on Burnham in Makerfield and how Labour collapsed

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Help! I'm trapped in MediaCityUK!

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Byelection special: Hannah Spencer talks millionaire marriage, Patricia Clegg, and Greens in the north

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Right-wing media types, Labour infighting and one plumber: we take a long walk through Gorton and Denton

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Our reporting leads to resignations at the University of Greater Manchester and Rochdale Council

9

How The Mill will make Manchester a better place - with your help

10

Terror comes to Manchester again: Horror and hope after the synagogue attack

11

Inside the fight to get into Trafford’s grammar schools

12

Meet the Showmen of Bolton

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The Salford Matador is still making a killing

14

Pyramid scheme

15

The folk dancers who refuse to stop blacking up

16

A new Manchester industry: pit stops for delivery riders

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What really caused the Royal Exchange's cancelled show?

18

The Casablanca Deal: Secret contracts and unexplained payments at the University of Greater Manchester

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Sacha Lord resigns as advisor to Andy Burnham

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Did Elon Musk mislead the world about grooming in Oldham?

21

Is it time to bin off the Christmas markets?

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The inside story of Afflecks

23

At Manchester’s African and Caribbean social clubs, dominoes are both leisure and lifeline

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What went wrong at the Carlton Club?

25

Has Didsbury lost its way?

26

Should Manchester Pride be a party or a protest?

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Exclusive: Salford Council is investigating the White Hotel

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Can Manchester’s nightlife survive the student exodus?

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Manchester's week of riots

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Do we know what caused the police attack at Manchester Airport?

31

The strange death of Levenshulme Market

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How did a semi in Harpurhey sell for £1.8m?

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Do Manchester's theatres have a class problem?

34

Britain doesn't have a second city

35

Clinging on in east Manchester

36

General Election preview: Keir Starmer gets his candidates in Greater Manchester

37

Sacha Lord has withdrawn his legal threat against The Mill

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Co-op Live has finally launched. Now, it has to win back the public's trust

39

Manchester's homeless camp had good intentions. Was that enough?

40

Who is to blame for the Night & Day Cafe saga?

41

The mistreatment of Manchester's homeless community

42

The extraordinary stories of ordinary Mancunians

43

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders tells us about a "disaster for democracy"

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Is Rochdale a cursed constituency?

45

Is Manchester a 'rentier city'?

46

Should Greater Manchester be partnering with Fujitsu?

47

Who is behind the Manchester Nightlife videos?

48

Our 2023 in review

49

Chanel comes to Manchester

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'Cheap talk'? A former Downing Street advisor takes on critics of the 'Manchester model'

51

Where is Manchester supposed to put its students?

52

Inside Manchester’s secret network of women calling out their exes

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Cut from different cloth: is Manchester where Chanel really belongs?

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She escaped the Taliban, now she's homeless on the Curry Mile

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Will our trains ever not be a joke?

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Exclusive: The Arts Council is investigating finances at Wigan’s Old Courts

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The powerlessness of Michaela Ali

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Who's going to join Soho House Manchester?

59

'I never wanted to move from Ukraine. My friends wanted to, but I never did.'

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Who is really benefiting from Manchester's rapid growth?

61

There are lots of rumours about Sacha Lord, but what's the truth?

62

Big parties and bigger drama: Life at uni during the lockdowns

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How do Manchester developers avoid building affordable homes?

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Manchester turns blue - but do City fans care about their club's finances?

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Is Manchester’s transport infrastructure struggling to cope?

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The secret flights Manchester Airport doesn't want to talk about

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Underpayment, media hype and the forgotten workers of Manchester’s hospitality industry

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"We don't do things differently here": An author challenges the myths of Manchester

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Two cities, two votes: inside Eurovision and the local election returns

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The 'red wall' speaks: what to expect from today's local elections

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The Prisoner’s Prison: has a Salford jail been taken over by the inmates?

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We went to the last night at one of Manchester’s iconic pubs

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Riot at the Palace: Why are people binge drinking at the theatre?

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Has Manchester lost its soul? A new book explores the city's boom

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'Prejudices' and 'lazy assumptions' among housing staff in Rochdale

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Is Greater Manchester's new deal with the government a 'historic step' or an 'inch in the right direction'?

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How Jeremy Hunt made Andy Burnham more powerful

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Another Tory MP in Greater Manchester stands down

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Could the Manchester Arena bombing have been prevented?

80

What's behind the culture funding row in Oldham?

81

Live from Manchester Museum as it finally reopens its treasures

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Why has Nicola Bulley's disappearance drawn in an army of online sleuths?

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Is this the end for Oldham Coliseum?

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Why are MPs and Radio 4 talking about The Mill?

85

Is there really a war going on in Ancoats?

86

Is Greater Manchester’s biggest housing strategy at risk?

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A storm brewing in Chorlton and Didsbury

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The stories that caused us the most stress and the ones we’d do differently

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In a dramatic move, China removes its officials from Manchester

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Is Gordon Brown onto something?

91

Disruption, Delays and Derailing: What is happening with Metrolink?

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Andy Burnham wanted to end rough sleeping. Now it's getting worse.

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Serious allegations about Manchester Confidential - how we published the story

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Condescending and ignorant - how the London arts world has reacted to ENO moving north

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What I learned from reading the Manchester Arena report

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Is this the end of the Night and Day Cafe?

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Chinese officials assault a protester on the grounds of the Manchester consulate

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Chinese officials assault a protester on the grounds of the Manchester consulate

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No friends or family came to his funeral - so I tried to find out who he was

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Why aren't people in Manchester using Metrolink?

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The Tories are in trouble - and so is Manchester's Metrolink

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A bleak, dank, cold Northern village on the edge of the moors

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Mayfield Park the first new park in 100 years

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Manchester waits to visit the new city centre park

105

How we investigated the true causes of homelessness in Manchester

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Is Andy Burnham's fare cap going to bring back passengers?

107

Renting the middle-class house in nineteenth-century Manchester

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The next Prime Minister

109

'Misinformation', 'hate' and answering his critics" we speak to the CEO of Manchester Pride

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A storm in the Northern Quarter

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What would real levelling up look like? Meet the economist who might have the answers.

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Exclusive: What happened during a surprise inspection at a local A&E

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Do you remember Jack Hilton?

114

Has Manchester found its next industrial revolution?

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"I prefer the hell hole that breeds great art"

116

Human remains and ‘speculative information’ at a burned down mill in Oldham

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Why I started The Mill - and what we want to do next

118

Life inside a Manchester asylum seekers hotel

119

What violence does to young people in Moss Side

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The MEN faces questions about its reporting of a controversial trial

121

'Low traffic neighbourhoods' seem like a good idea - so why are they causing so much strife?

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Resignations and political drama in Westminster - and in Greater Manchester too

123

He walked into Britain's worst prison riot - and came out with a story about indignity and injustice

124

Insiders fear 'deaths and homicides' as mental health services leave hundreds waiting for care

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We meet the new leader of Manchester, Bev Craig

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Why did Raja Miah not pass his dossier to the Oldham sexual abuse review?

127

Is Manchester city centre dying, or just changing?

128

A perilous journey from Sudan to Manchester

129

Decolonisation, repatriation and transforming Manchester Museum

130

What does the Red Wall think of Boris Johnson - and can we trust the polls?

131

Is the Royal Exchange in Crisis?

132

A leading Manchester company collapses into administration

133

Have the police missed a Manchester serial killer?

134

A major IT failure hits Greater Manchester and the rest of the headlines

135

How a dark conspiracy theory poisoned a divided town

136

Greater Manchester tries to save an endangered bird

137

Local Elections 2022 - The Results

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Searching for Salford's secret garden

139

The fall and fall of Oldham Athletic

140

The story of Rochdale's grooming gangs takes another turn

141

'In the suburbs of hell': a new history of the North

142

Anxiety and despair in Manchester as the cost of living crisis bites

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They escaped from a bombed out city. Now they're settling in Manchester.

144

The extraordinary campaign to keep Rochdale AFC in the hands of fans

145

Can Andy Burnham fix Manchester’s buses?

146

Inside Ukraine's unfolding medical emergency

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The extraordinary stories of Manchester’s Ukrainians

148

Did Andy Burnham misjudge the Clean Air Zone?

149

Manchester Pride was accused of losing its way. Can it recover?

150

Does Greater Manchester have a stabbing epidemic?

151

The murder of a local man becomes mired in corruption

152

A woman's search for the sister she never met

153

Hotel 'monstering' and the tactics of the new far-right

154

The sad life and contested death of Tiffany Stevens

155

The Last Game of The Poor Man

156

The Mill - A year in the life of Greater Manchester

157

The life and career of Sir Richard Leese

158

The rector and his very Mancunian tale

159

Manchester's Labour party erupts into civil war

160

The Manchester workers who spend their weekends sabotaging hunts

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Her stall survived the IRA bomb and the pandemic

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The far-right rises in Manchester's twin city

163

Inside the Northern Quarter's old school pubs

164

The return of Cottonopolis?

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A new book chronicles the life of Tony Wilson

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How a Manchester student became hooked on VR

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