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Andy Burnham has unveiled big plans to change how Greater Manchester taxis operate - but he needs new powers and time to make it reality.
Date Published 16/04/2025
Oldham has been ‘left in uncertainty’ since voting to withdraw from a controversial housing scheme.
Date Published 27/03/2025
“It’s a momentous day for Greater Manchester,” according to Andy Burnham - but it’s all down to a ‘hidden’ change you might ‘not want to know about’.
Date Published 24/03/2025
Bee Network bus ticket prices have been confirmed as a new ‘tap and go’ payment system will be introduced in a month.
Date Published 24/02/2025
Bee Network buses are now a familiar sight across Greater Manchester.
Date Published 20/02/2025
Protestors attempted to ‘storm’ Andy Burnham’s office yesterday (Monday) to demand an audience with the mayor over child sexual exploitation cases in Greater Manchester.
Date Published 17/02/2025
A decision in Oldham could alter the course of a Greater Manchester plan that has been more than a decade in the making.
Date Published 16/02/2025
Andy Burnham will ‘reach out’ to ‘compromise’ with anti-Places for Everyone (PfE) councillors in Oldham after they decided to leave the housing plan.
Date Published 14/02/2025
The mayoral element of council tax Greater Manchester will rise in the spring to subsidise the cost of the Bee Network, it’s been confirmed.
Date Published 06/02/2025
The £100m spent on Greater Manchester’s clean air zone has ‘not gone down the tubes’ despite never being implemented, Andy Burnham insists.
Date Published 05/02/2025
Andy Burnham is ‘extremely confident’ the £2 Bee Network bus fare cap will ‘remain in place’ for 2025.
Date Published 31/01/2025
Andy Burnham says the government’s decision to not impose a charging clean air zone in Greater Manchester is a ‘truly a great outcome’.
Date Published 22/01/2025
Andy Burnham ‘would not be opposed’ to a new national inquiry into grooming gangs the day after a Conservative bid to set one up failed.
Date Published 09/01/2025
The government body deciding if motorists will pay to drive in Greater Manchester has issued a statement on alternative plans.
Date Published 07/01/2025
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham wants to increase the police element of council tax bills - saying it’s ‘vital to maintain GMP’s improvement’.
Date Published 06/01/2025
There are ‘no plans whatsoever to enforce a paid-for clean air zone in Greater Manchester’, according to the transport secretary - but a ‘formal’ decision STILL hasn’t been made.
Early yesterday morning (Sunday), ‘the biggest change to buses this country has seen in a long, long time’ took place in Greater Manchester.
Date Published 02/01/2025
There will be no elections held in Greater Manchester in 2025.
Date Published 23/12/2024
Potential industrial action at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) just days before the mayor’s ‘biggest change yet to our public transport’ has been averted.
Andy Burnham will have the power to overturn decisions by local councils over controversial developments under new proposals.
Date Published 20/12/2024
Buses overhauled, new train stations announced, and the Metrolink system extended.
Date Published 18/12/2024
Greater Manchester Police has good leadership of its child protection arrangements, but must improve in some areas to make sure it identifies all risks to children, the police...
Date Published 13/12/2024
A court case means the future of Andy Burnham’s enormous, 15-year housing plan hangs in the balance.
Date Published 12/12/2024
This Christmas, a ‘shocking’ 16,500 people will be homeless across in Greater Manchester, according to a charity - which says half of them will be children.
Date Published 10/12/2024
The discovery of a mass grave containing the bodies of almost 300 stillborn babies in Royton shook Greater Manchester earlier this year.
Date Published 08/12/2024
Bus passengers can now get help accessing discounted travel on the Bee Network.
Date Published 28/11/2024
Andy Burnham has responded to Transport for Greater Manchester staff after they voted to strike yesterday (Thursday), asking to ‘sit down and discuss’.
Date Published 21/11/2024
Greater Manchester could finally get answers about the region’s clean air zone (CAZ), Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said.
Date Published 19/11/2024
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham delivered a major announcement on buses yesterday (Tuesday).
Date Published 29/10/2024
The ageing Metrolink network will need significant maintenance in the coming years, Andy Burnham has said.
Date Published 10/10/2024
