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Manchester's Metrolink tram network to get another £16m in Covid funding from government

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Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox The Metrolink tram network in Greater Manchester will get more than £16 million in further Covid-19 funding, the Government has announced.

The 'emergency funding' will be spread over 11 weeks. It's worth £16,284,000 in total and is the latest Government funding to keep the network on the tracks since the pandemic first hit.

In April last year, after the country was plunged into the first national lockdown, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, raised the prospect of Metrolink being 'mothballed' unless urgent financial support came through.

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