Ashton-under-Lyne
Americannoun
noun
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The Ashton-under-Lyne MP, an architect of the government's employment rights bill, had been expected to put forward an amendment to the legislation next week after ministers watered down its new provisions against unfair dismissal.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
Ashton-under-Lyne MP Rayner quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary last month after it emerged she had failed to pay enough tax on her £800,000 flat in Hove, East Sussex.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
Those ambitions started to be realised in 2015, when she was elected as the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025
Lila Marsland was examined by various medics over several hours at Tameside Hospital in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 27 December 2023.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2025
He had used most incendiary language, but was liberated on bail, and soon afterwards addressed a meeting of 5,000 people at Ashton-under-Lyne.
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Greville, Charles
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