Beth Abbit

🖊️ Journalist @MENnewsdesk. 📧 Mancunian Way newsletter editor. Regional Press Awards Feature Writer of the Year 2023.

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Absolutely delighted (and surprised) to win Feature Writer of the Year at the @RegPressAwards today

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@Kate_M_Proctor So excited I might (will definitely) fall over again xx

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@AdamMaidment I DO like the dubstep intro with blowfly sound effects 🪰

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The ACTUAL Bernie Sanders is coming to Manchester. Reckon he'll fit right in when he gets a taste of the weather here.

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@travelred @AdamMaidment Never taking a high res pic ever. That 8-bit image of two dots and a line for a face is fine thanks

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🇬🇧 Shocking Plight Of Families On The Breadline

▫Living by candlelight and queuing for leftovers - across Greater Manchester, families live a Dickensian existence
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@AdamMaidment Ha! Glad one person enjoyed it and I haven’t completely lost it 😅

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@Gary_Bainbridge @MENnewsdesk Thanks Gary, that’s really kind. Hope you’re well. We miss you at the M.E.N

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@JakubKrupa @DamonWilkinson6 Thanks so much, that’s really kind. And thanks for reading!

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A month ago, Diane Burke took a phone call from a Ukrainian police officer who told her her son Daniel was missing there. A month on, she still needs answers.

We discuss that in today's Mancunian Way newsletter.

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CONFIRMED: The Northern leg of HS2 has been cut.
Rishi Sunak says: "I am cancelling the rest of the HS2 project and in its place we will reinvest every single penny, £36bn in hundreds of new transport projects in the North and the Midlands of this country." @MENnewsdesk

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As the Tories come to Manchester for their party conference we ask them to look at the country from a different perspective.

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@LiamThorpECHO @LiverpoolWomens Ah lovely 🥰 Congratulations! xx

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🇬🇧 Mum's Fear For Son Missing In Ukraine

▫Former paratrooper Daniel Burke disappeared from the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, where he had been providing aid, four weeks ago
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▫https://t.co/1SsZ4jhwRy 🇬🇧

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📧 Demonstrating just how important a simplified transport system is for Greater Manchester @josephtiman this morning spent two and a half hours on three buses to Wigan. We discuss that in today's https://t.co/nJa8Ag4qF5 newsletter - which is free to sign up for 🖱️☝️

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In the latest Mancunian Way, we share the AI image that imagines Manchester in 2100.
@NealkeelingMEN says it's appears a ‘city of the future from a 1960s Eagle comic through which American superheroes weave’.

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Also in today's Mancunian Way:

🚨Cops under investigation over mill fire
📝Inquiry to assess treatment of women and girls
🩺Drs on strike
⛏️Bradford's iconic gas holders being torn down

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In today's Mancunian Way newsletter, we're discussing the ban on housing asylum seekers in north Manchester that Serco wants lifted. Story via @josephtiman

You can read it here: https://t.co/G49K9MYO09
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In today's Mancunian Way newsletter, we're discussing the ban on housing asylum seekers in north Manchester that Serco wants lifted. Story via @josephtiman

You can read it here: https://t.co/G49K9MYO09
Or sign up to get the newsletter free each day here https://t.co/nJa8Ag4qF5

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For today's Mancunian Way newsletter I’ve been talking to a member of the WeR1 mas band about the vast work involved in preparing for Manchester's Caribbean Carnival - and why maintaining heritage is so important.

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