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Five stories you may have missed this lunchtime

Manchester Town Hall will cost £95 million more to refurbish and reopen at least six months later than planned, Ethan Davies reports. The revamp will now cost £524.8m and is expected to finish in ‘spring 2027’, taking nearly a decade. Read in full here .

Reporter George Lythgoe has lifted the lid on The Turner Brothers factory - dubbed Rochdale’s Chernobyl - after it has stood abandoned for decades. Once the world’s largest asbestos manufacturer, the factory now poses a risk to 'urban explorers' who see the site as a playground for exploration. Read in full here .

The leader of the Salford Conservatives has said traffic problems at junction 13 of the M60 have become ‘beyond a joke’ and need sorting. He claims residents are

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