The Mancunian Way: Bills, bills, bills

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As we await details of the Prime Minister’s plan to help with energy bills, leaders in Manchester are making their own plans for the winter.

Today’s newsletter looks at the financial difficulties facing households, local authorities, businesses and care homes.

Anticipating that many people simply won’t be able to afford to heat their homes, this winter councils are taking action.

Public libraries in Manchester will be opened up as ‘warm banks’ as an ‘emergency response’, while Wigan and Tameside councils have already confirmed plans to use their own public buildings as 'heat banks' to support those struggling to pay their bills.

Manchester Council leader Bev Craig says she will be announcing measures to help people with ‘the limited resources we have’. “One of many initiatives will include our Libraries promoting themselves as a 'neighbourhood living room' where people of all ages can access free internet, wi-fi, books and information and where no one will question why you are there," she told reporters Ethan Davies and Tom Molloy.

Meanwhile, The Great Northern Warehouse, is inviting community groups to use its free-to-hire ‘Village Hall’ as a warm bank.

Liz Truss has vowed to take a 'hands on' approach to dealing with the energy crisis. But Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton, Graham Stringer, says he is unimpressed after she claimed that the crisis was ‘caused by Putin's war’.

"The Government have left this country completely unprepared for another crisis because they've