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What can national government learn from the Greater Manchester Green Summit?

Paul McNamee, Green Alliance
clock 08 April 2019 •

Green Alliance's Paul McNamee has a run down of the key takeaways from Manchester's Green Summit

"Manchester is the place where people do things," said Edward Abbott Parry, judge of Manchester County Court. "Don't talk about what you are going to do, do it. That is the Manchester habit." A love of...

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