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Greater Manchester

American

noun

a metropolitan county in central England, with the city of Manchester as its center. 498 sq. mi. (1,290 sq. km).

Greater Manchester British

noun

a metropolitan county of NW England, administered since 1986 by the unitary authorities of Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, Salford, Manchester, Oldham, Trafford, Stockport, and Tameside. Area: 1286 sq km (496 sq miles)

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A new BBC Two comedy show filmed in Greater Manchester and starring Sir Michael Palin and Mackenzie Crook will be shown later.

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Imagine, they pondered, that this recent deluge of news about Lord Mandelson and the catastrophic situation it has left the prime minister in had happened a fortnight ago and news of the by-election in Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester was only emerging now.

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Instead, the mayor of Greater Manchester's path to Westminster is blocked as are, for now at least, his ambitions for higher office.

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Arian Abbasi, 36, a pilot from Harrow in Greater London, has been named as one of two victims of the small aircraft crash in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

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Greater Manchester Police are warning anyone who may come across the device not to touch it and to contact them immediately.

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