Sarah Lester
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Editor, Manchester Evening News
@manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Jennifer Williams
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FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system
on.ft.com/47HEE46
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The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britainโs asylum crisis
[FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets โ and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
https://on.ft.com/47HEE46
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I've written something about the Independent Office for Police Conduct's ill-judged decision to launch a criminal investigation into a police officer, alleging they leaked footage of the Manchester Airport violence to the Manchester Evening News.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Don't criminalise the truth
A GMP officer is facing an investigation over allegedly 'leaking' CCTV footage of Manchester Airport violence. Manchester Evening News Editor Sarah Lester thinks it's an ill-judged decision with poten...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dont-criminalise-the-truth-32204195
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In an unusual move the
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editor
@mariabreslin.bsky.social
and I have joined together to call for the government to fund a new fast railway line between Manchester and Liverpool.
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The Manchester Evening News todayโฆ.and 80 years ago.
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Joseph Timan
8 months ago
I've spent hours trawling through three years of messages in the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group. The good, the bad and the ugly. And boy, does it get ugly. But it reveals much more about our politicians than you might think
@manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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'You live in a s*******': Three years of Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp messages
Foul-mouthed messages have exposed nasty name-calling by our elected representatives. But the leaked WhatsApp conversations also show politicians airing their frustrations with the job and sharing mom...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/trigger-me-timbers-whatsapp-revealed-31006493#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare
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Sarah Lester
Manchester Evening News
11 months ago
More of the
@manchestereveningnews.co.uk
journalists have joined Bluesky. You can follow them here ๐
go.bsky.app/4XEh7QF
We will keep updating the list as more join
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There were troubling scenes in Manchester city centre on Saturday afternoon. Good piece from reporter John Scheerhout looking at what happened and why.
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What really happened in town on Saturday afternoon
Were police protecting Manchester city centre or was this a case of heavy-handed policing and the profiling of a whole community? John Scheerhout examines a complex row sparked by travellers attemptin...
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/what-really-happened-town-saturday-30449372
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๐ Lovely to be here....I've made a starter pack of Manchester Evening News journalists which I'll keep topping up.....
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