How Middleton’s revival could be grist to the mill for Britain’s struggling towns
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Turnaround initiated by Andy Burnham and led by Steve Coogan could provide blueprint for other neglected areas The former England footballer Paul Scholes and the actor Steve Coogan stare out from beside a fish and chip shop in Middleton, near Manchester . Looming over a mural of the pair – and the whole town – is an enormous former cotton mill that powered its economy a century ago. The deafening looms and spindles…
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