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A Greater Manchester transport boss has blasted Avanti West Coast for keeping local leaders in the dark over plans to suspend ticket sales and reduce services to London to just one train per hour from next week. Councillor Andrew Western, chair of the Greater Manchester Transport Committee, said it was ‘unacceptable’ that the rail firm had cooked up the ‘limited timetable’ with the government without consulting city region chiefs.

Trafford Council leader Andrew Western has been selected as Labour's candidate for the Stretford and Urmston, triumphing over two female candidates. The 37-year-old announced his selection on Twitter today.

A brand new £7m leisure centre has officially opened in Urmston.

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direct to your inboxTrafford council’s leader will fight for the borough to be placed under the lower coronavirus restrictions of Tier 2 next week.The government is due to review the tier placements of areas across the UK on Wednesday December 16.Coun Andrew Western, the borough’s council leader, says he will be writing to government this week pushing for a change on the grounds of Trafford having an infection rate of just 87.6 per 100,000 people, which is ‘significantly less than the national average.’At a full council meeting last night, Coun Western said: “Colleagues will be aware that we were placed into Tier 3 restrictions in spite of being below the national average at that juncture.“We weren’t consulted on that and moving forward the

near 100pc increase in case numbers in the last week, Coun Andrew Western said he was ‘very disappointed’ that the government had ignored his own concerns and those of others locally and made what he labelled a ‘purely political calculation’. Coun Western was left furious on Friday August 28 when central government announced Trafford would be released from Greater Manchester lockdown restrictions.

hereThe other MP, Sir Graham Brady, who represents Altrincham and Sale West ward and is the influential chairman of the national Conservative Party’s 1922 committee, was in favour of lifting measures across the borough.

hereIt is understood restrictions will be lifted next week.