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Ann McGauran

Ann McGauran

Journalist and content editor with 20+ years specialising in public policy. Still learning.

Articles by Ann McGauran

Chancellor announces new support package for businesses

By Ann McGauran | 22 October 2020

The chancellor Rishi Sunak has increased support for workers and jobs hit by tougher COVID-19 res...

Tiers of trouble

By Ann McGauran | 20 October 2020

More than half of England’s population is now living under high or very high-alert postcode COVID...

Greater Manchester will move into Tier 3 as talks collapse

By Ann McGauran | 20 October 2020

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Greater Manchester will head into Tier 3 restrictions on Friday...

Greater Manchester's mayor will not 'roll over' on COVID cash

By Ann McGauran | 19 October 2020

Greater Manchester’s standoff with government on moving to new tier three COVID-19 restrictions c...

Swathes of England to move to tighter restrictions

By Ann McGauran | 15 October 2020

Barrow-in Furness, York, north-east Derbyshire, Erewash and Chesterfield will move into tier two ...

City council poised to lose 617 posts due to COVID-19

By Ann McGauran | 14 October 2020

The executive board of Leeds City Council meets next week to consider cutting the workforce by 61...

Axing of PHE is opportunity to 'reframe' health protection

By Ann McGauran | 13 October 2020

Public Health England’s (PHE) axing offers a chance for health protection to be ‘reframed’ and an...

Take local people with you on COVID, says ADPH

By Ann McGauran | 12 October 2020

The need to take action ‘with, and through local people’ is at the heart of a 10-point blueprint ...

Cities have 'gone backwards towards a centralising tendency'

By Ann McGauran | 07 October 2020

Cities have ‘gone backwards’ towards a centralising tendency in response to COVID-19 and in rela...

Where next for high streets and city centres?

By Ann McGauran | 06 October 2020

The Towns Fund selection process was controversial, but high streets and city centres face a bigg...