BREAKING: George Holmes, longtime vice chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester, has been sacked. A spokesperson for the university confirmed the news in a statement to The Mill, saying that Holmes’ contract was terminated “earlier this week”. manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-geo...
BREAKING: George Holmes has been sacked
The UK’s longest serving vice chancellor is ‘no longer an employee of the University’
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Reviews for the Goodsyard suggest life in the development is a far cry from the “Good Life” promised on its website. 🫥 Read more here: www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-new-type-o...
A new type of housing is booming in Birmingham. Could this turbo-charge the city?
Brum has the fastest growing rate of Build to Rent projects outside London.
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Is this this beefiest tweet ever sent by a member of the House of Lords? My old boss letting loose over this story www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
A great (and rather depressing) read on the decline of the London Evening Standard www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
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Enioyed this from @joshih.bsky.social on the decline and fall of The Evening Standard www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
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1) this is a great piece 2) I still I still have, somewhere in my inbox, the one-pager I wrote to my editors when I was at the diary in 2015, explaining the various ways in which the Londoner could become a digital product, which got roundly igonored by all involved lol
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2013, I ‘leaked’ George Osborne’s budget and nearly got fired for it. A few years later, Osborne was appointed as the paper’s editor, another blow to its credibility. I’ve written the sad/mad inside story of the fall of the Evening Standard - enjoy! www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
An excellent long read on the slow death of the London Evening Standard via @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
Imagine for a moment you are a rednecked wallaby, nestled happily on an island on Loch Lomond. You and your family have been here since the 1940s. You’re all a bit out of your comfort zone, sure, but the place has grown on you over the years.
In 2013, I ‘leaked’ George Osborne’s budget and nearly got fired for it. A few years later, Osborne was appointed as the paper’s editor, another blow to its credibility. I’ve written the sad/mad inside story of the fall of the Evening Standard - enjoy! www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
Rich Myers is Leeds' biggest export since Tom Zanetti. GetBaked, his bakery business, is huge, with viral cakes and £10m turnover. He's known as the 'UK's rudest baker' for his abrasive online exchanges. Thing is, a lot of them are made up, he reveals.
GetFaked: how a star baker confected his enemies
Rich Myers went viral for airing his haters online. Turns out they weren’t real
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In June 1992, Paula Gilfoyle was found hanged in the garage of the Merseyside home she shared with her husband, Eddie. She was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Though tragic, police officers who attended the scene did not regard the death as suspicious. 🧵
Absolutely riveting stuff from my colleagues @braddeasjourno.bsky.social and Moya Lothian-Mclean for @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social: What really drives Get Baked’s Rich Myers? And who is really baiting him? theexchange.news/getfaked-how...
GetFaked: how a star baker confected his enemies
Rich Myers went viral for airing his haters online. Turns out they weren’t real
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Now that GMP have made arrests, legal proceedings are considered to be “active”, meaning The Mill is no longer able to report in detail on the UGM story. Please join us to support our journalism - it’s only possible because of our members. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...
Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud
The Mill understands the suspended university leader was held for questioning on Wednesday - along with his wife and a colleague
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As it happens, tomorrow will be Mollie’s 5th year anniversary at @millmedia.bsky.social! She joined straight out of Manchester Uni (UofM, that is…) and has become such a star. If you value this kind of work and you want is to find more Mollies, please join up 🙏 manchestermill.co.uk#/portal/signup
Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud. It marks an unprecedented moment in British higher education - the first time a university vice-chancellor has ever been arrested in the UK as part of a criminal investigation. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...
Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud
The Mill understands the suspended university leader was held for questioning on Wednesday - along with his wife and a colleague
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Ladies and gentleman, we have a new favourite podcast: @beebwatch.bsky.social. Here’s Mark Damazer, the former controller of BBC Radio 4, being very nice.
Great to see so many jobs popping up, @joshih.bsky.social. @millmedia.bsky.social seems to be riding a wave of momentum. Keep up the great work.
Until 1990, only London and Hampshire recorded more than six days a year over 28C. Now we're all sweating in consecutive 30C temps. But in the West Midlands, there's almost nowhere to cool off. It didn't used to be the case. So where are all our lidos?
Where did all our lidos go? And can we get them back?
'[Lidos] weren't just for swimming. They were about the notion of a good life'
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Goodbye Popworld! When Ark announced its shock closure on Sunday, it was reported that Popworld would be the only club left on Deansgate Locks. But The Mill can reveal that Popworld is closing too. By next Sunday, the once bustling strip will be reduced to a row of empty units.
I’ll be hosting a massive @manchestermill.bsky.social mayoral hustings on Monday 27th, three days before polling day. Tickets are FLYING off the shelves - almost 200 sold in 12 hours - and that’s before @bevcraig.bsky.social was confirmed, which she now is. manchestermill.co.uk/meet-the-wan...
Meet the wannabe mayors
We're hosting the hottest hustings of the summer
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Want to join the @millmedia.bsky.social team? We're hiring two Staff Writer roles, one in Liverpool and one in Birmingham. The Liverpool one closes today! Please share with talented friends. millmediaco.uk/jobs/
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“If I was a young writer right now, I would want to work for Mill Media” Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker Current opportunities:
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BIG NEWS from @molliesimpson.bsky.social: Three people have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering, fraud and bribery at University of Greater Manchester. Police say opened their investigation a year ago “after we received allegations from The Mill". manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-thr...
BREAKING: Three people arrested on suspicion of money laundering, fraud and bribery at University of Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Police are investigating the alleged misuse of as much as £1.7 million
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BREAKING: Three people have been arrested on suspicion of money laundering, fraud and bribery at University of Greater Manchester, @molliesimpson.bsky.social reports. Greater Manchester Police are investigating the alleged misuse of as much as £1.7 million. manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-thr...
BREAKING: Three people arrested on suspicion of money laundering, fraud and bribery at University of Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Police are investigating the alleged misuse of as much as £1.7 million
manchestermill.co.uk
Love to see this - readers getting behind @abi-whist.bsky.social and The Post to help pay for the massive legal bills it incurred fighting off Laurence Westgaph, who launched a year long campaign to force Abi to reveal her sources. Aiming for 300 new or upgraded members. 11 days to go.
Mill subscribers in our comments with the REAL recommendations for No.10 North... Andy take notes.
📆 Our Senior Editor role closes THIS WEEKEND! We’re open to applicants in any of the cities we cover. Join one of the most talented editing teams in journalism. Applications close tomorrow night. Please share. millmediaco.uk/2026/06/15/w...
For @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social I talked to Network Raik about how they look after what are locally known as the Dark Arches, the fabulously dank and atmospheric caverns under Leeds Station. theexchange.news/the-keeper-o...
The Keeper of the Dark Arches
Meet the engineering army maintaining the underbelly of Leeds Station
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Anti-tank, Anti-bomb, Andy Burnham? We asked Manchester’s property moguls the top locations for No.10 North. And then we went around all of them to rank them for ourselves... (1/)
