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Andy Burnham

November 2024

  • A modern arts venue with people drinking and talking in a courtyard outside

    Five-hour avant garde Philip Glass opera among ENO’s Manchester plans

    Programme for company’s move north includes Glass’s Einstein on the Beach, Britten and a new youth company
  • Bee Network’s distinctive yellow buses operating in Manchester city centre.

    The Guardian view on the politics of buses: Labour’s winning ticket

    Editorial: Cheap, better-run public transport can transform people’s everyday lives. The government should be more ambitious in its plans to deliver it
  • Raye smiles as she arrives at the awards

    MTV Europe awards: Taylor Swift, Raye and Pet Shop Boys are big winners in Manchester

    Swift wins best artist award for third time as Liam Gallagher, Calvin Harris and Sabrina Carpenter also triumph

October 2024

  • A Northern train at Newcastle station

    Northern says it still uses fax machines to send messages to train crews

  • City and regional mayors pose for a photo outside the door of 10 Downing Street

    Key Labour thinktank recommends major new powers for elected mayors

September 2024

  • Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer smiling

    No 10 braced for potential defeat in Labour conference winter fuel vote

  • Laura Laker

    Britain has two kinds of buses – but the days of second-class services could be numbered

    Laura Laker
  • Andy Burnham

    Manchester turns to ‘housing first’ scheme to eradicate rough sleeping

  • A woman warming her hands over an electric heater at home

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

  • The Guardian view on a boost for buses: reversing deregulation is the right move

  • Northern mayors rebrand levelling up as the ‘Great North’ in push for funding

August 2024

  • Bus passengers at Bolton Interchange on the first operational weekday for the new yellow liveried Bee Network of buses

    Superloops, Bees and bottlenecks: onboard England’s new bus routes

    Devolved transport powers for mayors represent exciting prospect, but traffic and costs are still a major hurdle

July 2024

  • Composite of three stills from a video showing the assault by police of a man on the floor in Manchester airport.

    Fears Rochdale could ‘boil over’ as outsiders stir division over Manchester airport video

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer praises Abbott and hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – as it happened

  • Bricks and mortar

    How to access land to build more housing

  • Jacob Rees-Mogg standing next to Barmy Brunch from The Official Monster Raving Loony party

    ‘Sails on the ship’ and ‘ashes of disaster’ – quotes of election night

June 2024

  • The high street of Leigh with a few people wandering past the pawnbrokers and bank branch

    Today in Focus
    Returning to Leigh: can Labour rebuild the red wall? – podcast

    The Greater Manchester town was a Labour stronghold before 2019. Will it be once again? Helen Pidd reports
  • Burna Boy, Little Simz and Camila Cabello, three of the major stars playing Glastonbury this year.

    From African stars to British stalwarts, Glastonbury 2024 opens gates to a truly diverse lineup

    With the BBC livestreaming globally for the first time, and an especially rich lineup of Black artists, 2024’s festival champions a broad remit – but plays it safe with Coldplay
  • Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg<br>For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only BBC handout photo of panellist Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Issue date: Sunday June 16, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election. Photo credit should read: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

    The Guardian view on a lopsided parliament: a deficit in democracy needs electoral reform

    Editorial: Polls suggest this election could make the case for proportional representation. That would be very welcome

May 2024

  • Andy Burnham speaking into a microphone

    Politics Weekly UK
    Andy Burnham on the infected blood scandal

    In an extra episode this week following our special election discussion, the Guardian’s John Harris speaks to the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, who has campaigned for those affected by the disaster and was the health secretary from 2009-10
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