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Metrolink scores 6/10 (and that's according to the bosses)

Jonathan Schofield interviews Philip Purdy of Metrolink and Andy Morris of Stagecoach Light Rail and gets some interesting answers

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Shimla Sinks
Jennifer Choi on the hot closing news from the curry frontline as Shimla Pinks ascends to the great naan bread...
 
Could you hug for 24 hours and two ...
The Christie hospital is trying to break the world record for the world's longest hug – any volunteers?
 
Manchester Day Parade.... Out of th...
Lauren Murphy on the day that will make us PROUD, yes in capitals, PROUD. Skitting aside we like this idea lots
Lowry Hotel and IWMN up for big awa...
Manchester makes finals in the latest Enjoy England awards (or at least pedants, Salford and Trafford does)
 
Metrolink scores 6/10 (and that's a...
Jonathan Schofield interviews Philip Purdy of Metrolink and Andy Morris of Stagecoach Light Rail and gets some...
 
Cyclists iron out the trams
Protest over ridiculous local transport authority contradiction
 
MEN ditched by Guardian
The Guardian Media Group chucks away the Manchester Evening News: rumour that MEN will move to Hollinwood
Sir Richard Leese: interview with t...
Jonathan Schofield interviews the Council Leader about poverty, transport, working with the Conservatives, per...
 
The New Manchester Dictionary: Metr...
The first chapter of our New Manchester Dictionary contains useful vocabulary for travelling by tram
 
Trading Places
Helen Clifton chats to traders and staff about the future of Manchester city centre's oldest market
 
The Light Brigade
Lights on, camera out: a new campaign wants your help to get businesses to switch off at night
 
Wetherspoons hits Didsbury
Charlene McAuley finds out how the villagers are reacting to news that another big pub chain is on its way
 
Manchester crime figures released
Car crime numbers disappoint but ‘we’re heading in the right direction’ according to GMP
 
Identity minister interviewed on ID...
Jonathan Schofield talks to Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister in charge of the ID card scheme being triall...
Metrolink's road to nowhere
Inundated with questions we try to get to the bottom of the poor service on the flagship transport system
 
Ask the Identity Minister about ID ...
Meg Hillier, MP, wants to talk to us about ID Cards after seeing our article on the subject this week: got any...
 
Car thief told to getaway
One man, 70 jacked cars and a five year ban…
 
Me and my ID card.
Robert Cutforth volunteers for an ID card and is told “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to wor...
The Karma Snowtra
There's an inner Benny Hill at work around the North West, but you must be 18 to look
 
Hot new hardware for city streets
Confidential has a ride on a new tram and loves the look
 
Confidential readers better than FT...
Restaurant confirms you lot are brighter than broadsheet readers – well most of you
 
Build a snowman competition
Plough your way down to Hardman Square in Spinningfields for the chance to win booze
Best snow in Manchester for two gen...
Lovely, lovely, lovely, we love snow – here are some words and pictures
 
Sir Richard Leese interview
We're interviewing the Council Leader next Tuesday: got any questions you'd like to ask him?
 
Lanterns over Manchester
The best thing about New Year were......the metaphors
 
Over indulged at Christmas?
Here's five ways to lose weight and keep it off, without having to diet
 
Jesus gets a £100,000 advertising b...
The church has launched its biggest ever campaign to put Christ back into Christmas
 
Free on-street parking in the city ...
Four free days of on-street parking in Manchester for Christmas sales shoppers
 
Breaking News: Confidential picks u...
With the Manchester Evening News rumoured to be up for sale Confidential steps in
The Grand Old Lady of Manchester me...
Rumours on the How-Do website suggest MEN is to be sold: is the Guardian Media Group ditching Manchester?
 
The Ace, the CPO and demolition
Helen Clifton investigates whether Derek Adams, landlord of the Ace of Diamonds in Newton Heath, is right to c...
 
Ed Miliband and the tars of Canada
Kevin Gopal, Editor of the Big Issue of the North, attended a Manchester meeting ahead of Copenhagen
 
New sports body hits the city
International Advisory Board on Sport launches in the city
Lift-off: Manchester Markets soar
Planet Code, the techies behind Manchester Confidential.com have developed Manchestermarkets.com - folks it's...
 
Manchester Confidential changes
Confidential explains the changes coming to our sites with memberships, articles, rants and the rest
 
What's happening with Manchester's ...
GMPTE update us on the progress so far (don't get too excited)
 
Newsmakers wanted
Are you an experienced freelance writer? Have you a nose for breaking stories in Manchester and the North West?
Pay back time: refund for underperf...
Wigan Athletic do the right thing after dreadful 9-1 loss in London
 
Coming up in the next weeks on Conf...
A preview of some of the stories coming in the next weeks in Manchester's only true magazine
 
Manchester’s £600k Christmas spend
The city goes to town on the marketing spend but should it mention car parking more?
 
The Death of King Street
Jonathan Schofield dreams of the future on a street stumbling into decay
Question Time with our MEP, Nick Gr...
Jonathan Schofield finds Question Time disturbing, uncomfortable and totally unbalanced - but in the end worth...
 
Sir Howard Bernstein tipped for Tor...
Sleuth hears that Sir Howard Bernstein could be a Blue Lord...and we’re not talking Manchester City
 
The Big Interview: Eoin Colfer
Ann Marie Hall gets to the children’s author re-inventing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy before his Manc...
 
Looking for a space to work?
There are better options than your spare room and Starbucks, as Tom Broadbent discovers
So-called English Defence League be...
If you go down to the Gardens on Saturday beware of a nasty surprise
 
Mildly exciting public transport ne...
New park and ride scheme from Sale, better bus travel, and Oldham and Rochdale swap trains for trams
 
Can the Conservatives crack Manches...
Charlene McAuley takes the temperature in south Manchester to see if the Blues have any electoral hope
 
Cricket, groceries, campaigners: th...
Public meeting to be held to organise against supermarket giant
The Big Interview: Guy Garvey
Jane Grimshaw natters with the often-spotted Guy Garvey as the curtain falls on Elbow...for now
 
Less is bore
Jonathan Schofield looks at the closure of the morning Metro’s Manchester office and what it means for the cit...
 
Free trams until Sunday
After the upheaval since Tuesday the Altrincham and Eccles lines go free for four days
 
Has Chris Grayling got his wires cr...
The shadow home secretary faces criticism over his comparison of Moss Side to fictional US drama The Wire
Out on the town: Maria Roberts
Emma Bovary heads to the Temple of Convenience to meet the writer of Single Mother on the Verge: a Manchester ...
 
Pride is almost upon us: here’s a q...
Confidential wonders whether having a Gay and Lesbian section isn’t old-fashioned for a general magazine?
 
Cars attack Blantyre Street – vicio...
Sleuth receives more pics of cars at war just off the Mancunian Way
 
Controversy over Chorlton car park ...
Are car park charges harming the precinct? Helen Clifton on the latest trial to hit the independent traders
Car parking fee? You must be effing...
Sleuth wonders whether motorist at City Gate is a freedom fighter, an artist or just hates people in wheelchai...
 
Crisis at Common bar
With rates more than quadrupling, the NQ bar is almost out of business. Lynda Moyo investigates....
 
Living Room becomes morgue?
Celebrity-haunted Deansgate bar struggles to survive the recession
 
Can you own a car and care about th...
You don't have to travel by horse to have green credentials according to one car manufacturer
Construction starts on Chorlton tra...
They're putting in the walls and it could get noisy
 
Daft City poster incites United pai...
Jonathan Schofield on ‘small-minded’ clubs and childish football fans
 
Los Angeles sees sense and twins wi...
Angels dance with Mancunians in a waltz of mutual benefit – or something like that
 
Oldham Athletic to leap the boundary
Sam Jones and the local footy club that wants to shift position
Liverpool moves closer
Track improvements will put the other great Lancashire city 30 minutes away
 
Not out of the woods yet: the ‘sham...
Retiring Bishop of Hulme, the Rt Revd Stephen Lowe, warns against complacency in Greater Manchester
 
Online Credit Card Fraud, Sir?
Gordo gets an unwelcome wake-up call, and so does his buddy: are we in the midst of a scam epidemic?
 
Festival Pavilion stays on
The Albert Square Pavilion to continue in Albert Square for tapas and Rioja celebration
Didsbury done over: a suburban crim...
Charlene McCauley and a criminal blight on restaurants and pubs in the pleasant southern suburb
 
The Big Interview: Chief Constable ...
Give communities power over policing, say no to ID cards and lose some police officers: Jonathan Schofield put...
 
The Big Interview: Chief Constable ...
Give communities power over policing, say no to ID cards and lose some police officers: Jonathan Schofield put...
 
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