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A win for Wigan residents after council U-turns on masterplan - but this was 'just one battle' - against building on green space.
Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great…

Wigan residents hail extraordinary victory after council U-turns on masterplan - but this was 'just one battle'
Bridgewater West has been removed from a local plan - meaning a scheme to turn it into a giant Wigan business park could be scrapped

Heute gebe ich mir kulinarisch die Kante.
"Du warst nicht in Straßburg, wenn du keine 'knack' gegessen hast", stand sinngemäß auf einem Schild. Das habe ich sehr ernst genommen und bin extra morgens in die Stadt reingefahren, um diese besondere Wurst zu probieren.
Danach zum Bäcker, vor dem sich eine Schlange gebildet hatte und aus dem es herrlich nach Brot duftete: Madelaine, Éclair und Canelé, ein wabbelig-fester Miniguggelhupf.
Abends dann einen Flammku…

Another day, another sealing of agricultural land.
Residents 'sickened' as farmland at the edge of Bury village eyed up for hundred of homes - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news…

Residents 'sickened' as farmland at the edge of Bury village eyed up for hundred of homes
By all means build, but use the places that have been used and left derelict

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3myfjcm3isk2h
I’ve heard reports exactly like this in • every • single • election • since 2004. And every time, when somebody finally manages to get to the bottom of it, it turns out the culprit is garbage UI design — not the machine secretly changing votes (because why would it •show• the user if it’s actually cheating?!).
But these breathless stories about touchscreen voting aren’t going die unless touchscreen voting itself dies — because it’s a terrible idea.
Paper ballots, marked directly by the voter themselves, validated and counted in an optical scanner. It’s not rocket science, folks.

" “To have this change to the planning system from the government that does not allow us to restrict the blanket building of housing development and maintain the character of Stockport as we would like to do is a bitter pill to swallow.”
Stockport's 'bitter pill to swallow' as 24,253-home plan released - Manchester Evening News

Stockport's 'bitter pill to swallow' as 24,253-home plan released
Government targets say there needs to be 32,000 new homes built across Stockport

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3myfjcm3isk2h
I’ve heard reports exactly like this in • every • single • election • since 2004. And every time, when somebody finally manages to get to the bottom of it, it turns out the culprit is garbage UI design — not the machine secretly changing votes (because why would it •show• the user if it’s actually cheating?!).
But these breathless stories about touchscreen voting aren’t going die unless touchscreen voting itself dies — because it’s a terrible idea.
Paper ballots, marked directly by the voter themselves, validated and counted in an optical scanner. It’s not rocket science, folks.

You've seen the film, but what now?
Come to our series of #Manchester workshops: the first one tonight!
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Events: National Emergency Briefings – what next?
Updated 11 Aug: third workshop added We bring you a series of three workshops looking at the implications of the National Emergency Briefings for Greater Manchester.  What does it mean for us? Who …

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They point out his leadership in commissioning work from them that led to setting of Greater Manchester’s ambitious, Paris-compliant carbon budget. They say that allowing more oil extraction would betray that…

Manchester Climate Scientists call on the new PM not to drill for oil
Kevin Anderson and colleagues at the University Tyndall Centre have written an open letter to Andy Burnham calling on him not to agree drilling in the Rosebank and Jackdaw marine oil fields. They p…

Events: National Emergency Briefings – what next?
We bring you a series of three workshops looking at the implications of the National Emergency Briefings for Greater Manchester.  What does it mean for us? Who needs to act, and how do we pressure them to do the right thing? The National Emergency Briefing screenings have been a great way to being together and share current expert knowledge on the existential ecological crises facing us all. 

Events: National Emergency Briefings – what next?
Updated 11 Aug: third workshop added We bring you a series of three workshops looking at the implications of the National Emergency Briefings for Greater Manchester.  What does it mean for us? Who …

Campaigners threaten legal action over new housing estate coming to Mossley's countryside where protected species live.
The 175 luxury home scheme was approved by Tameside council's planning panel in July
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

Campaigners threaten legal action over new housing estate coming to Mossley's countryside
The 175-home scheme was approved by Tameside council's planning panel in July