Sign up to The Mancunian Way, the new daily newsletter from the heart of our city

Here at the Manchester Evening News we’re launching a new email newsletter to keep you up-to-date with the most important issues facing our wonderful city.

The Mancunian Way will be sent direct to your email inbox every weekday with a selection of news stories along with analysis and insight into why these stories matter.

It is a companion to our thriving website, but with a change of pace and a slightly different tone. We hope you'll come to see The Mancunian Way as "a friend dropping in" each day.

The Mancunian Way will be discussing the issues that sometimes get lost in the news cycle, as well as those which are unique to Manchester.

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For example, subscribers can expect to see us focus on the fate of the controversial Clean Air Zone or the state of Piccadilly Gardens.

We'll be keeping a close eye on the performance of Greater Manchester Police, and how it measures up against the promises of improvement made by the Chief Constable, and reporting on the state of the NHS in our region.

The Mancunian Way will also showcase the powerful local journalism by reporters at the M.E.N. who cover our communities every day.

We'll feature stories like this recent investigation into fake ads for houses on Facebook, or this long-read on the region's knife crime epidemic, and features like this one, about how the pandemic has changed Manchester's busiest hospital, the MRI or this account of life in a freezing cold tower block.

The newsletter will take a look at how national issues affect us - from Levelling Up to the cladding scandal - and keep tabs on the latest antics in Westminster.

Manchester's thriving nightlife and hospitality sector will also be up for discussion, along with the rapid