Striking junior doctors in Greater Manchester have described how their dispute isn't just about pay - it's about saving the NHS as more and more colleagues leave to get better paid jobs abroad.
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Plans for two ‘huge’ new warehouses have been passed despite pleas from residents who say noise pollution from the industrial estate site is already making their lives a misery. Proposals for two industrial units - standing at 12.5 and 10 metres tall respectively - at Kingsway Business Park, in Rochdale, were passed by a majority vote of the council’s planning committee.
A report to the committee stated that the buildings would be 34 metres from the nearest homes and pose ‘no unacceptable harm’ in terms of visual intrusion, overshadowing, overbearing impact or noise and disturbance’. Applicant Wilson Bowden Developments has planning permission for a similar scheme, albeit with nine-metre high buildings, to fall back on, but had been asked to carry out further consultation with residents after the application was deferred back in February.
They returned with a revised scheme for ‘Plot J2’ - including shortening and widening of the car park to allow for an increased landscape buffer to the nearest homes, moving boundary treatments further away from Lower Lane, and additional planting at the site boundary. But residents claimed that the revisions were nothing more than tweaks that would do nothing to mitigate the ‘terrible effect’ the scheme would have on their lives.READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community
Simon Goldstone, of Lower Lane, represented residents opposed to the scheme at the committee meeting on Thursday night. He told the panel he had raised ‘very grave concerns about noise, vibrations, light pollution, loss of sleep and impact on our health’ - but the developer had dismissed alternative uses due to ‘commercial greed’.
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Striking junior doctors in Greater Manchester have described how their dispute isn't just about pay - it's about saving the NHS as more and more colleagues leave to get better paid jobs abroad.
Despite the availability of stunt performers, many actors like to try their hand at the fights, flips, jumps and more for scenes. Most of the time, they are successful. Sometimes, things go wrong and production has to pause while a star recovers. Harrison Ford has had his share on of onset injuries throughout his career, something he does not quite wear as a badge of honor.
A Manchester restaurant that has only been open a matter of months has shot into a prestigious list of the very best restaurants in the UK. Higher Ground has placed at 51 in the National Restaurant Awards Top 100 announced last night.
2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has stoked outrage in Malaysia and Singapore — but the US comedian who told it isn’t saying sorry.Jocelyn Chia, a Boston-born, American-Singaporean stand-up comedian, performed the bit at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar back in April. This week, social media users were incensed after the club posted a clip of the joke in which Chia made light of the historical tensions between Malaysia and Singapore.The now-viral joke dives into the historical separation of the two nations, noting that Singapore has become a “first world country” while Malaysia has remained a “developing” one.She then likened the split to a romantic breakup and imagined Malaysia trying to woo Singapore back, saying that it hadn’t visited because “my airplanes cannot fly,” she said in the video clip, adding: “What? Malaysia Airlines going missing not funny?”She then quipped, “Some jokes don’t land.” Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, in March 2019 when it disappeared with 239 passengers aboard.
Tennessee is the place to be.Starting Thursday, June 15 and stretching all the way to Sunday, June 18, the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will take over the Bonnaroo Manchester Farm for a long weekend of rock n’ roll, hip-hop, pop, EDM and everything else in between.Just a few of the megastars slated to entertain fans at this year’s edition include Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters, Pulitzer Prize-winner Kendrick Lamar, electro icon Odesza, hitmaker Sheryl Crow and post-punk heroes Paramore.They’ll be joined by My Morning Jacket, Lil Nas X, Korn, Marcus Mumford and Pixies.All in all, over 100 acts are set to take the stage at the mutli-day musical extravaganza.And if you still need last-minute tickets, there’s no need to fear. At the time of publication, four-day passes were still available for purchase starting at $313 before fees on Vivid Seats.The lowest price we found on single-day passes was $122 before fees.Need a bit more info before committing?Keep reading — all the details you’re looking for can be found below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all single-day and multi-day general admission pass prices can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time.
It took three years and cost the public purse £32m. The Manchester Arena Inquiry finally came to a close on Wednesday, but instead of back-slapping and congratulations for a job well done, there was palpable frustration and fear that this vast and expensive effort may, in some respects, have been in vain.
The tenth series of Love Island is in full swing - and after just two episodes - viewers think they already know which couple is going to take the crown. The hit ITV dating show returned to screens on Monday night (June 5) with a fresh batch of singletons hoping to fall in love in the Majorcan villa.
Parklife Festival returns for 2023 on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June.
American superstar Pink officially kicks of the European leg of her Summer Carnival 2023 tour this week with two huge gigs in Bolton. The Grammy Award-winner will be brining her immensely powerful voice and high octane live show back to UK shores for the first time since 2019’s sold out Beautiful Trauma World Tour.
The Charlatans have announced the dates for a major UK tour later this year with a huge gig in Manchester in December.
With millions of viewers each year, Love Island is arguably one of the most popular dating TV shows around. But as well as its popularity with the public, many contestants of the ITV dating show have found success when it comes to their relationships.
It’s official! Delilah Belle Hamlin and Henry Eikenberry made their red carpet debut at the Thursday, June 1, premiere of The Crowded Room.
Harrison Ford has recalled how he told stuntmen to “leave me the fuck alone” while shooting Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.The upcoming film marks the fifth and final instalment of the long-running action franchise — which kicked off in 1981 with Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.Now, over four decades after he first appeared in the lead role, Ford will celebrate his 81st birthday shortly after the latest film hits theatres. However, when speaking in a new interview, the acclaimed actor shared that he was determined not to conceal his age in the project.One moment that highlighted this best, he said, was a scene in Dial Of Destiny in which Jones is riding a horse through the streets of New York City during the 1969 ticker-tape parade that followed the moon landing.While filming this, Ford explained to Esquire, he felt the hands of multiple stuntmen helping him get off the horse, which irritated him as he wanted the scene to show him dismounting how he normally would.“I thought, ‘What the fuck?’ Like I was being attacked by gropers.
After years of bad blood between Kim Cattrall and her “Sex and the City” co-stars, she’ll be reprising her “SATC” chararacter, Samantha Jones, in the revival series “And Just Like That”.
After years of bad blood between Kim Cattrall and her “Sex and the City” co-stars, she’ll be reprising her “SATC” chararacter, Samantha Jones, in the revival series “And Just Like That”.
Arctic Monkeys' biggest UK and Irish tour to date finally lands in Manchester this weekend as the four-piece head to Emirates Old Trafford for two massive gigs.
An airline has made an announcement about a new check-in service at Manchester Airport as families jet away during the half term holidays.
AB6IX have announced the dates for their upcoming 2023 ‘The Future’ world tour.AB6IX are set to go on a 12-date world tour from July to September this year, in support of their new mini-album ‘The Future Is Ours: Lost’. The upcoming tour will feature shows in Asia and across North America.AB6IX’s ‘The Future’ world tour outside of South Korea will kick off in Macau, China on July 15.
Amazon has offered employees at its huge Manchester warehouse who are parents, grandparents and guardians of school-age children the chance to work term-time only.
A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves.