Greater Manchester

20 injured after crash tears roof off bus

22/07/2025

A score of people were injured when the roof was ripped off a double-decker bus after it collided with a bridge - just one of a spate of such instances in the past year.

J Hopkins Contractors receive £5m loan for new Manchester HQ

15/05/2025

J Hopkins Contractors have received a £5.7m loan from OakNorth to acquire a new company headquarters in Irlam, City of Salford.

National Highways beams up M67 bridge

09/04/2025

New images have been published by National Highways this week of eight steel beams that were craned into place as part of a £23m scheme to replace a bridge across the M67 in Denton, Greater Manchester.

First steps for Bury Interchange transformation

08/04/2025

Plans for a new pedestrian bridge have been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as the first part of plans to create Greater Manchester’s first operationally carbon-neutral transport hub at the Bury Exchange.

Manchester backtracks on CAZ plans

27/01/2022

Plans to charge polluting vehicles to drive in the Greater Manchester area have been referred back to government by local leaders following a wave of protests.

McCann wins £3m signage deal as Manchester prepares CAZ

03/09/2021

Civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has won a £3m signage deal as part of the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone (CAZ) project.

Cities move ahead on CAZs as traffic returns

28/01/2021

Birmingham and Greater Manchester are progressing plans to introduce clean air zones despite hopes that the pandemic might cut levels of pollution from traffic

Manchester top of the wrong table

10/09/2018

Manchester has come top of a new table of the most congested English areas outside London.

Safety campaign launched on smart motorway route

10/08/2015

A new safety campaign has been launched along a smart motorway route on the M60 in Greater Manchester.

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