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...Street and his Labour counterpart in Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, are focused on the same economic development priorities — and have essentially the same devolution deals — because the same things are...
...In response to the decision, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street and Labour’s mayor in Greater Manchester Andy Burnham commissioned their own review into prospective alternatives that...
...Burnham insisted he was not avoiding politically difficult decisions by jettisoning the charging zone....
...At a meeting in Leeds, Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester mayor, noted that just 37.2 per cent of Avanti’s trains arrived on schedule in the quarter that followed the company’s contract extension, compared...
...“I’ve completely run out of patience,” said Greater Manchester’s Labour mayor Andy Burnham. “I cannot accept this railway line being left in this perennial state of chaos.”...
...Burnham wants ministers to then provide further subsidy....
...So far, so good, although whether that is enough to truly restore notoriously bad relations between Burnham and the leader’s office remains to be seen. (Some close observers remain unconvinced.)...
...“You can do NPR without HS2 but it would cost a lot more,” said William Barter, an independent rail planning consultant....
...At the Birmingham end of HS2’s axed 2a and 2b phases, Conservative mayor Andy Street; at the Manchester end, Labour’s Andy Burnham....
...Burnham has already proposed a hotel tax as one revenue stream once the existing bus funding package runs out in 2025....
...This announcement is a pretty insulting reminder that the transformative, long-term investment we were promised is instead being parcelled out everywhere else under the banner of Network North,” said Andy Burnham...
...Second, in 1971 Richard Nixon’s secretary of state, William Rogers, supported a political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including withdrawal from territories occupied in the six-day war of 1967...
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...Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said Avanti should have been “left on probation” instead of having its contract renewed a month ago....
...“She confirms that Ben H has put a hold on a range of funds coming to us,” he wrote on March 6, including in relation to match funding for “Towns Deal” projects, regeneration schemes partly funded by the...
...Andy Burnham, the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, said the government was treating the north as “second-class citizens”, leaving it with “Victorian infrastructure” while investing in modern rail connections...
...Then came the 1,046ft Chrysler Building, whose architect William Van Alen shrewdly concealed a 185ft spire within its tower until the final stages of construction....
...I’m quite fond of the theory, popularised by Dr William H Frey, a self-appointed “student of psychogenic lacrimation”, who concluded in the early 1980s that crying removes toxins that we build up in times...
...sticks (£35); and Pharrell Williams launched an incense holder with Neighbourhood: a Vulcan hand that smoulders from the fingertips (£180)....
...Highlighting the messiness, the NY Fed — whose president John Williams is a guru of the field — suspended its calculations for R* during the Covid-19 pandemic, and when it resumed publishing updates last...
...One of them, Jennifer Williams, has kindly written today’s note, about devolution and scrutiny. In exciting news, Inside Politics has been shortlisted for an award....
...In 2022, it raked in an estimated $30bn in sales, according to the complaint — a sales figure bigger than those of H&M and Gap....
...And of course, that’s exactly the kind of narrative that politicians like Andy Burnham feed on. Lucy FisherYes....
...Burnham called the deal a “significant breakthrough”, adding: “Today is a new era for English devolution.”...
...Bloodlines, designed by Tristram, depicts peasants tilling a field alongside caricatures of ladies and gents who converse in speech bubbles with words plucked from William Barnes, the 19th-century poet....
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