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Fears have been raised that a water treatment company is ‘dumping raw sewage’ straight into the Manchester Ship Canal.

Trafford council has spent £336.87m on investments since July 2017 on a mixture of shopping centres, housing estates, an iconic central Manchester multi-storey skyscraper, an old sorting office and a former student village.

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direct to your inboxHealth workers have expressed their ‘real and grave concerns’ over the government’s planned changes to the coronavirus vaccine distribution programme.The government has announced its intention to prioritise the first dose of the vaccine for as many as people as possible, extending the time between jabs from the recommended three weeks to up to 12 weeks for some patients.Chief medical officers have defended the move, as they said the ‘great majority’ of initial protection came from the first dose.But health workers are concerned there is ‘no evidence’ to support that this approach will work.Trafford Council’s Labour leader Coun Andrew Western has echoed their worries.He said: “It is understandable that the government

Plans to build on green belt land in Trafford have sparked a row between party leaders.The Trafford Conservative group leader Coun Nathan Evans shared a blog post on his group’s website over the weekend, which accused Labour of ‘misleading’ residents over the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework and what it meant for the borough.But Trafford’s Labour council leader Coun Andrew Western hit back saying Coun Evans was treating residents like they had ‘short memories’ over the matter and the previous Conservative administration’s plans to build homes on greenbelt land in Flixton.The GMSF sets out the proposed areas for future development of around 20,500 new homes across the whole of the city-region, prioritising building on previously used

hereAt the end of August, the government announced it was going to free Trafford from Greater Manchester’s local lockdown measures, which prevented people from mixing with other households indoors.That decision was reversed after council leader Coun Andrew Western raised concerns of over rising infection rates.At the time, Sir Graham made it clear he did not agree with the government’s u-turn.He said is is now concerned about the damage lockdown has done across the country, including families being kept apart, relationships breaking down, job losses and health problems going unchecked.Sir Graham added: “We must always weigh in the balance the damage that these rules do - mental health effects, family break up, grandparents not seeing their

is now more than three times higher than the national average, standing at 35.8 cases per 100,000 people in the latest figures up to the week ending Friday, August 28, but hospital admissions for COVID are down.

Hale has become one of Greater Manchester’s top ten coronavirus case ‘hotspots’.Trafford had 85 new cases of COVID-19 last week – with eight new cases declared in Hale between July 20 and 26.It means the ward was one of the top 10 for new coronavirus cases in Greater Manchester during that period.In an interview on BBC Radio 5Live, council leader Coun Andrew Western announced the ward had an infection rate of around 95 per 100,000 people.According to data from Public Health England, when areas like Urmston and Sale are taken as a whole, their case rates are also high.The two wards in Urmston, Urmston East and Urmston West, had nine cases between them.Sale’s wards (north, east, central and Sale Moor) had 12.Coun Western announced Trafford

A heartfelt video from councillors of all parties has been released, thanking all key workers for what they’re doing in the fight against coronavirus.

An eight-year-old school girl has designed the new climbing wall at a £7 million leisure centre.

Councillors got a heavy weapons training session as they showed their support for the armed forces.

Cyclists have praised new pop-up cycle lanes installed along the A56 – with one saying it is the “first time they have felt safe in 40 years of commuting”.