🧵We would like to be bringing you a full report of this police misconduct hearing today. But, despite us overturning similar decisions twice in the past, the officers involved have been given anonymity under Home Office guidance

On the penultimate day of #Northamptonshire Chief Constable Nick Adderley's gross misconduct hearing, the panel heard he allegedly sustained a campaign of "mendacious deceit", "skullduggery" and "false narratives" that "borders on satire". cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

This is going to a heck of an ITV drama. Gutted if Martin Freeman doesn't take away a Bafta.

Another former Mirror Chicken reveals all

Hard to express what Sir Howard Bernstein did for Manchester. Maybe you just need to look at the skyline. I've never come across anyone with not just the vision, but an unmatched ability to get things done. He put Manchester and its future first. We won't see his like again.

🧵10 years ago, George Osborne delivered a speech in Manchester that signalled a new era for the North of England. The idea of the Northern Powerhouse was that, as an interconnected collection of cities, the North could 'take on the world'. So... what happened? Manchester News MEN

It can be challenging to spot disinformation - which is why today we launched a user-facing campaign to help audiences verify the sources of the news they see online. 🧵 1. Is there a link back to a trusted news website or source? #GE2024CheckYourSources

📣 If you don’t have accepted ID, the deadline to apply for free voter ID is tomorrow, 26 June. ❗️You must apply before 5pm if you live in England, Scotland or Wales and by midnight if you live in Northern Ireland.

Check your ID this afternoon before 5pm. There's a list of 20 forms of ID you can show at a polling station — make sure you've got one that's on it. If you don't, you can sign up for a temporary ID. But the deadline for that is 5PM TODAY Details here: somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-…

Police investigating ‘threatening and abusive’ behaviour inside NI council chamber belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

What you need to know for polling day: ❗ Don’t forget to bring photo ID ✅ Don’t worry if your ID is out of date. You can use out of date photo ID, if it still looks like you and the name is the same as the one you used when you registered to vote.

Tomorrow's front page 🗳️

In the new Cabinet… Parrs Wood High School in Didsbury, Manchester, appears to be Labour’s equivalent of Eton… (it was threatened with closure when my sister was there in the 80s… and then rebuilding was only funded by selling the playing fields to a ten pin bowling alley…

This is going to be insufferable for civil servants covering Douglas Alexander's new beat. Every story starts with 'This reminds of the time that me, Guy Ritchie and The Edge... "

An interesting snippet from the #KingsSpeech on HS2 up North Labour won't reverse the decision to axe the Northern leg but will repurpose the legislation to build better rail links between east and west (in the North) Will be interesting to see what that means in practice...

If you read only one local government story this weekend…

We're hiring for a Local Democracy Reporter at Teesside Live covering Middlesbrough - a great #journalismjobs opportunity. More details on the link below, or feel free to ask me or Yakub Qureshi for a chat about the role: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ReachPlc/74400…

🚨*JOB*🚨We're hiring for an exceptional journalist to lead our local democracy reporting MyLondon, covering every nook and cranny of local govt. If that's you, drop me or Deanne Blaylock a line for a chat jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ReachPlc/74400…

This is a long read of mine. But it explains how the decision to plaster massive images of metro mayor Dan Norris and his dog on the side of a bus exposed “significant weaknesses” at WECA and how it spends public money. bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-n…

A criminal investigation has been launched..... into who gave the Manchester Evening News footage from Manchester Airport which showed the moments leading up to a police officer appearing to stamp on a man's head while he lay on the ground. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…