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Sarah Townsend The public has re-elected Labour’s Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram as Mayor of Greater Manchester and Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, respectively, and now they can serve a further three years in post. The winning mayoral candidates were announced today after voters flocked to the polls on Thursday. This year’s elections saw landslide victories for the two mayors, with Burnham scooping up 473,024 of the votes – 67% of the total 702,784 cast – and Rotheram winnig 198,726 votes. In Greater Manchester, Burnham was up against eight other candidates: Laura Evans (...

Greater Manchester and Salford mayor elections 2021 results as Andy Burnham wins Results for the Greater Manchester mayoral and Salford city mayor elections - follow the latest updates The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The count in the Greater Manchester mayoral and Salford city mayor elections has taken place as Andy Burnham was re-elected in Greater Manchester and Paul Dennett in Salford. The Greater Manchester election, which took place on Thursday, had originally been scheduled to take place last May - but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Counting of the ballot ...

GREATER Manchester mayor candidate Andy Burnham has spoken about the need to break a ‘defensive, excuses culture’ among the region’s police force. Speaking on a visit to shops and the market in Westhoughton, six days before the mayoral election, Mr Burnham said the appointment of a new chief constable for Greater Manchester Police, Stephen Watson was intended to bring about a positive shift in the ‘culture and ethics’ of the force. Last year, GMP was placed in special measures after a damning inspection report found 80,000 crimes went unrecorded in a year. His Conservative o...

Cllr Kevin Mckeown With Andy Burnhamnin Horwich CAMPAIGNING for the Greater Manchester mayoral election is underway  in Bolton with current incumbent Andy Burnham outlining his pledge for an integrated, centrally run bus and tram system while on a visit to Horwich - with the Conservative candidate also visiting the  town recently. Mr Burnham popped into shops and businesses on Lee Lane to chat about the effects lockdown had on their businesses and how it feels to finally be back serving customers. Speaking during the visit he outlined that if re-elected the central theme for the nex...

Michael Elston A ‘BUREAUCRATIC error’ in his nomination papers has stopped a Prestwich man from standing in next month’s Manchester mayoral election. Last year businessman Michael Elston, 39, announced his intention to stand as a independent candidate in the election on May 6, opposing current incumbent Andy Burnham. The election was deferred until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Elston grew up in Prestwich and is a Bury FC fan, and went to Manchester Grammar School and then The University of Birmingham, where he studied ancient history, specialising in Egyptology....