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Manchester Arena bomber linked to six MI5 ‘subjects of interest’, inquiry hears

NewsColony30 September 2020

by NewsColony30 September 2020013

The Manchester Arena suicide bomber was identified associating with six separate MI5 “subjects of interest”, visited a terrorist twice in jails and regularly travelled to...

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Tory council leader condemns PM’s ‘unacceptable’ Covid restrictions

NewsColony29 September 2020

by NewsColony29 September 2020030

Boris Johnson has come under stinging attack from a Tory council leader over the “sheer unfairness” of regional coronavirus restrictions, as the prime minister faced...

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‘Who knows what’s around the corner?’ Bolton and Crawley react to Sunak’s plans

NewsColony24 September 2020

by NewsColony24 September 2020030

Bolton: ‘It feels like we’ve been forgotten about’ When Rishi Sunak announced his winter jobs programme on Thursday, he will have had Red Wall constituencies...

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Covid scepticism behind high Bolton infection rate, says local MP

NewsColony20 September 2020

by NewsColony20 September 2020024

Covid scepticism in Bolton has led to it having the highest infection rate of coronavirus in the country, a local MP has said, as a...

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‘They see us as heavy-drinking nuisances’: students face Covid marshals

NewsColony20 September 2020

by NewsColony20 September 2020023

Dancing, drinking and flirting at wild parties will be firmly off the student timetable this term – even for those tempted to attend an illegal...

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Rise in Bolton Covid cases linked to holidaymaker who didn’t isolate

NewsColony19 September 2020

by NewsColony19 September 2020014

A holidaymaker who did not self-isolate after returning from a trip abroad was partly responsible for the “extreme spike” in coronavirus cases in Bolton, its...

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Covid-19 UK: police urge people to obey rules over sunny weekend

NewsColony19 September 2020

by NewsColony19 September 202008

Police officers have prevented a wedding party going ahead as forces urge people to comply with coronavirus restrictions over the warm, sunny weekend. Greater Manchester...

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‘Truly an angel’: widower pays tribute to wife in Manchester Arena hearings

NewsColony16 September 2020

by NewsColony16 September 2020015

Moving tributes to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing continued for a third day in a series of commemorative hearings during the public inquiry....

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Tameside hospital Covid deaths are ‘canary in the mine’

NewsColony16 September 2020

by NewsColony16 September 202009

A spate of deaths from Covid-19 in a hospital in Greater Manchester are “a canary in the mine” for the rest of the country if...

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Tameside hospital fights UK’s first fatal outbreak of hospital-acquired Covid

NewsColony15 September 2020

by NewsColony15 September 2020022

A small district hospital where more than a third of all coronavirus deaths among inpatients in England occurred last week is battling the UK’s first...