In this week's episode, Mollie and Jack look back on the last two years of reporting on Sacha Lord.With thanks to Manchester Building Society for sponsoring this week's episode. In 2025, Manchester Building Society will be offering a different way to manage your money. We believe in branches, where people can access savings, mortgages and in-person financial advice. We’ll be opening on King Street later this year, before setting up in high streets and towns across Greater Manchester. Now we need your help. Building societies exist to serve their members and communities — so we want to hear from Mill readers about what you would want from your building society. <a href="https://bit.ly/4aCHnv9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Find out more here.</a>16 months, 12 stories — the Sacha Lord Saga in full15/07/2023: <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-sober-guy-at-the-rave-how-sacha/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Part one of our profile of Sacha Lord</a>, delving into the childhood, personal life and success of the nightlife impresario.19/07/2023: <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/a-massive-massive-conflict-of-interest/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Part two</a> looked at the conflict of interest created by Lord being a nightlife boss as well as an advisor to the mayor.16/05/2024: Mark Turnbull said <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-did-sacha-lord-cheat-his/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">he could prove</a> Lord had cheated his way to over £400k by telling the Arts Council a regional security company was in fact the “backbone of the national creative events sector”.18/05/2024: Lawyers representing Lord <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/why-isnt-andy-burnhams-gmca-answering/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">threatened legal action</a> unless we took our story down.20/05/2024: Lord <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/sacha-lord-is-threatening-to-sue/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">continued to threaten legal action</a>.20/05/2024: We <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/it-was-solely-a-security-company/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">found further evidence</a> that the application was misleading.22/05/2024: The Arts Council announced a review of Primary Event Solution’s application, and the GMCA <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/a-big-twist-in-the-sacha-lord-story/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> a fact-finding mission.24/05/2024: <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/sacha-lord-has-withdrawn-his-legal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lord withdrew his legal threat</a>.14/06/2024: We found <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-did-the-arts-council-allow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the assessor of the application</a> was Karen Boardman, who sits on other nightlife committees with Andy Burnham.28/09/2024: We requested the original assessment document of Primary’s application, and found that the Arts Council had taken <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-documents-show-how-sacha/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the most easily falsifiable claims at face value</a>.&nbsp;29/01/2025: The Arts Council <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/breaking-sacha-lord-has-resigned-as-an-advisor-to-andy-burnham/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">withdrew the grant</a> and began proceedings to recover the £401,928, and Lord resigned.31/01/2025: We dug into <a href="https://manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-how-the-gmca-flunked-its-own-investigation-into-sacha-lord/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the questions left behind</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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