Shakers await fate amid threat of extinction after 135 yearsJames Bentley: losing Bury would devastate a communityYou can email Barry or tweet @bglendenning or post BTL 2.36pm BST Manchester City: In news of a slightly less impoverished outfit in the north-west, Manchester City will be without John Stones for their Read more
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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 2.47pm BST Jake Berry, the minister for the Northern Powerhouse, told the World at One that Boris Johnson’s trips to Berlin and Paris this week showed that the EU is “softening its stance” on Brexit. Berry claimed:The government has refocused Read more
‘What we ask from the south is more power and equivalent investment… yet what we get in no-deal Britain is literally, rubbish’ Via: No-deal Brexit could see rubbish from the south sent to the north, industry insiders admit
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Jeremy Corbyn urges Boris Johnson to tell president Jair Bolsonaro that the ‘reckless destruction’ of rainforests must stop Via: Labour accuses UK of 'cosying up' to right-wing Brazilian government as Amazon fires continue to rage
More than 70 firefighters called after balcony on 12th floor of block catches light Via: Notting Hill fire: Blaze breaks out in London tower block near Grenfell
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Mustafa Suleyman has taken a leave of absence from Google’s artificial intelligence lab owned by its parent company Alphabet. A spokesman said it was based on a ‘mutual decision.’ Via: Google's DeepMind co-founder placed on leave after controversy over some of his projects
GREG HANDS: When I heard German Chancellor Angela Merkel had invited Boris Johnson to put forward new proposals to solve the Northern Ireland backstop in the next 30 days, I was delighted. Via: GREG HANDS: Here's why we don't need the backstop