After five years at the MEN, and seven years in journalism, I'm about to embark on an exciting new chapter in my career... from Monday, I'll be joining the media team at Transport for Greater Manchester 🚌

Government sends advisors to Greater Manchester to learn about economic growth @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'In the next 10 years, this will be like Ancoats' - inside the biggest regeneration project in Manchester's history @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Borough by borough - exactly what the £1bn growth fund will bring to your area of Greater Manchester @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

NEW: Andy Burnham's massive £1bn Greater Manchester growth plan revealed @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Exclusive: The long-awaited plans for Piccadilly Gardens can finally be revealed with work set to start after Christmas @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

REVEALED: The Salford council scandal and the deleted emails sparking claims of a cover-up @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'As the battle of Manchester raged, I was in Rishi Sunak's bedroom' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Cancelling HS2 in Manchester was 'very odd', Conservative MP admits two years on @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Andy Burnham admits affordable housing targets for developers 'don't work' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

In a portacabin a stone's throw away, survivors of the synagogue attack continued to pray - it was an act of defiance @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'The rain could only mask the tears, but nothing could hide the anger' - my account of the vigil for the Manchester synagogue attack @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'This was a holy day - now we are in mourning, fearful about our future' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Keir Starmer is 'listening to Andy Burnham' and adopting his policies, mayor's office says @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Will Greater Manchester be left out in the cold by Keir Starmer's government after Andy Burnham's high-profile antics at Labour conference? I chat with @liamthorp.bsky.social and @josephtiman.bsky.social on the Northern Agenda podcast this week - recorded in the Liverpool Echo's fancy studio! 1/2

The seats 'in play' and the many hurdles Andy Burnham faces if he wants to be leader @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

A lot of people are pi**ed off with Andy Burnham @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

We're off on our European adventure. More than 2,500 miles by train across the continent and back. The most expensive leg? Manchester to London, of course

'This is a contest between two strong women, not a proxy war between two men' - Lucy Powell speaks to me in one of her first interviews since entering the race to become Labour's deputy leader @lucympowell.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Reform candidate who vows to reduce number of HMOs in town... manages three HMOs @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Manchester's love affair with a place nearly 6,000 miles away that dates back 160 years @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

In the backstreets of Oldham last week, an old face promised 'real change' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

We asked 64 people in every Greater Manchester borough what they think about Nigel Farage's immigration policy @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

People in Greater Manchester do worse in GCSEs than elsewhere - this is why @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

My ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review of The Maccabees at Victoria Warehouse last night @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

There are nine hotels in Greater Manchester still housing asylum seekers. We asked every council here whether they will be seeking an injunction following the High Court ruling affecting a hotel in Epping earlier this month. Here's what they said @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

I spoke to the people protesting outside an asylum seeker hotel in Greater Manchester last week - this is what they told me @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Billions of £ of investment in vital infrastructure is promised by the Labour govt in the coming years - but the biggest projects in the North aren't in transport, energy or schools. That was what I discovered when I had a look at the online Infrastructure Pipeline. Regional breakdown here... 1/12

Could Andy Burnham really return to Parliament and become Prime Minister? @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

One year on from the Southport riots, some fear it could happen all over again @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'All my friends did A Levels, now they wish they did what I've done' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

'I'm sad it's over - it felt like everyone came together' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

'It really is no way to run a country': Greater Manchester's newest MPs, one year on @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

I've never seen so many people dressed in merch from a tour BEFORE they go to the show #OasisLive25

GMP chief says he 'sleeps well at night' - but grooming victims 'still failed' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Welfare reform bill LIVE as MPs vote on DWP benefit cuts amid mass Labour rebellion @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

With all the talk of welfare reform over the last week, I got an invaluable insight from Citizens Advice where staff told me they regularly speak to people who are suicidal. They fear these cuts will make matters worse @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

NEW: Greater Manchester MPs still oppose welfare cuts after U-turn 'fiasco' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Seven Greater Manchester MPs have joined the rebellion so far by signing the reasoned amendment against the welfare bill. Total stands at more than 100. Only 83 needed to defeat it. Surely the government has no choice but to drop it now? @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The court battle over £1billion and how Manchester missed out on affordable housing @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

ICYMI: The conversation with Andy Burnham that led to the grooming gangs U-turn @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Andy Burnham is in Japan and meeting with Nippon Electric Glass about the closure of this factory in Wigan right now. Sounds like the decision has been made but the mayor says he'll ask them to give it 'one last look' @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Andy Burnham's sex abuse inquiry team 'resigned' after authorities 'lawyered up', MPs told @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Sorry Sadiq, you're talking rubbish - my take on the mayor moaning about London being "levelled down" @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

What Rachel Reeves didn't say in the Spending Review and what it means for Greater Manchester @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The Spending Review is finally upon us. Here's my round-up of what Greater Manchester will be looking out for tomorrow and over the rest of the week @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

'£1,182 per person for London and £486 for northerners? That isn't right' - the latest figures illustrating an ever-growing gap in public spending on transport @ipprnorth.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

1,000 new buses, three new tram stops, and a huge Metrolink announcement @ethandavies.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

EXCLUSIVE: I've been told by multiple sources that Chancellor Rachel Reeves will tomorrow announce mayoral combined authorities will now be getting the billions in transport funding promised by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak back in 2023. A short thread...

I spent a day with police officers checking on victims of domestic abuse - and making sure their abusers are staying away. GMP talks about being 'victim-led', but what do they do when they believe the victim is protecting the perpetrator? @manchestereveningnews.co.uk