Greater Manchester
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Greater Manchester is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, West Yorkshire and Derbyshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside t
Tower Blocks over Knott Mill, geograph 6866152 by David Dixon
Peel Monument August 2022
The Orwell at Wigan Pier, 2010
Former weavers' cottages in Wardle. An increase in domestic cloth production, and textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution is attributed to a population boom in the area.
Mayor of Greater Manchester
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The mayor of Greater Manchester is the directly elected strategic authority mayor of Greater Manchester, responsible for strategic governance in the region that includes health, transport, housing, st
Greater Manchester
…On 3 November 2014, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that there would be an eleventh member of the GMCA – a directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, with "powers over transport, housing, planning and policing" from 2017. Greater Manchester is a landlocked county spanning 493 sq mi (1,277 km2). The…
Councillor Bev Craig Leader MCC 2026
The cross-borough Manchester Metrolink which has grown from 20 stops in 2009 to 92 in 2014
Manchester Airport is the largest publicly operated airport in the UK, owned in part by the ten councils of Greater Manchester.
Official portrait of Tony Lloyd crop 2