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Manchester Airport celebrates National Random Acts of Kindness Day

Manchester Airport celebrated National Random Acts of Kindness Day, dubbed #MANdomActs, with a host activity across its three terminals. The airport surprised hundreds of passengers throughout the day as they jetted off to the Northern hub’s 210 destinations. Passengers were treated to Fast Track … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester Top UK Region for Start-Ups

Greater Manchester is one of the UK's best performing city-regions for business start-ups. However, top economists have said that while Greater Manchester has world-class strengths in advanced materials and health innovation, it is still punching below its weight. An expert panel chaired by … [Read more...]

Manchester Airport passenger numbers continue to soar

Manchester Airport passenger numbers continue to soar as long-haul network helped sun-seekers across the North banish the January blues.  More than 1.78 million people passed through the airport’s three terminals last month, an increase of 7% on January 2018.   And it was a host of far flung … [Read more...]

Stockport Leader Spearheads Natural Capital Investment Plan

Head of Stockport Council, Alex Ganotis, is leading Greater Manchester's drive to becoming one of the greenest places in Europe by developing an innovative Natural Capital Investment Plan. A Natural Capital Investment Plan would be the first of its kind for a UK city region and is a result of last … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester Launches Hate Crime Awareness Week

As it is Hate Crime Awareness Week, the call to Greater Manchester people is STAND together against hatred and prejudice This year for Hate Crime Awareness Week, people from across Greater Manchester have shown their support to end hate crime by featuring in a video, reciting the Hate Crime … [Read more...]

Regional: Transport for the North sets out £70 billion blueprint

Transport for the North has today set out an ambitious vision for the future of the North’s economy, unveiling draft proposals for northern infrastructure for the next 30 years. The Strategic Transport Plan (STP) and the Investment Programme would rebalance decades of underinvestment and transform … [Read more...]

Regional: Biggest Pay Increases are in the North West

The biggest pay increases in the UK (+7%) in 2019 are expected to be in the North West compared with any other region in the country for *professional salaries. This compares with London (+3%), Yorkshire (+3%), and the Midlands (+1%). The data comes from leading recruiter Robert Walters annual … [Read more...]

Regional: Manchester Airport Welcomes Year of the Pig

Manchester Airport is ready to celebrate the Year of the Pig as 260,000 passengers travelled to and from China in the last year.  As Chinese New Year beckons and we enter the Year of the Pig, Manchester Airport is celebrating another strong 12 months as passenger numbers to China grew 17%. With … [Read more...]