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Azeem Rafiq case: ‘No place for racism’, says Mayor of West Yorkshire
We were joined by Tracy Brabin, who’s the elected Mayor of West Yorkshire, and Mohammed Patel, a human rights lawyer who is a lifelong Yorkshire cricket fan.
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‘Freetown to Treetown’ – mayor outlines plan to plant a million trees
Thousands of miles across the African continent, in Sierra Leone and its neighbours, the overheating planet and desertification are becoming ever more urgent.
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Bristol Mayor says empty plinth where statue of Edward Colston stood ‘represents where country and city are right now’
In Bristol, the statue of Edward Colston was dumped in the water, the catalyst for the protests that swept the country.
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‘Europe is now experiencing extreme weather seen in the global south for years,’ says Mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital
On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to publish a new report showing global temperatures rising more quickly than anticipated, with government’s needing to go further and faster to prevent rising sea levels and more extreme weather events. Earlier we spoke to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital…
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‘All parties culpable on social care’ – Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham
We spoke to Andy Burnham, who was re-elected Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester by a landslide last week.
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Andy Burnham is re-elected as Greater Manchester mayor
Liz Bates joined us from Birmingham to tell us the latest there.
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How Tories claimed victory in Tees Valley mayoral race
The Conservatives wanted three key victories last night: along with Hartlepool they wanted to keep their mayors in the West Midlands and the Tees Valley.
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Will West Midlands Tory Mayor hold on to power in elections?
After a week dominated by allegations of sleaze surrounding Boris Johnson, how much is it cutting through with voters?
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’Withdrawal of US troops will make things worse’ says Afghan mayor
We speak to Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors, and Professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, from the University of Pittsburgh, who’s a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council as the US prepares to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, after two decades of conflict
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The Tories and the election battle for England’s regional mayors
It is just a month till voters across the UK head to the polls for the first major elections since the pandemic, and in England they’ll be choosing new local councillors and regional mayors.
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London Mayor warns hospitals on verge of being overwhelmed
The Whittington Hospital in north London has seen one of the highest rises in admissions of patients with the virus in the country.
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FactCheck: Conservative London mayoral candidate’s misleading tax claim
Shaun Bailey says Sadiq Khan wants to raise mayoral council tax by 21 per cent.
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Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson to step aside following arrest
The mayor of Liverpool has said he will step aside for a time after he was arrested over allegations of bribery and witness intimidation.
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Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson understood to have been arrested in fraud probe
It’s understood that the mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, has been arrested in connection with a fraud probe into building deals in the city. Sources say he has been suspended from the Labour Party.
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Mayor of Manchester worries about tougher lockdown restrictions over Christmas
Earlier we spoke to Andy Burnham, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester and I asked him if the government had consulted him on their plans.
