North West England

North West England
North West England
Region of England
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	Coordinates: 54°01′00″N 2°38′00″W / 54.0167°N 2.6333°W
Sovereign state	United Kingdom

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North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,417,397 in 2021. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. It is one of the three regions, alongside North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber, that make up Northern England. (Full article...)

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Manchester /ˈmæntʃɛstər/ is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. The City of Manchester metropolitan borough, which has city status, has a population of 452,000. Manchester lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area which has a population of 2,240,230, the United Kingdom's third largest conurbation. It is also the second largest urban zone in the UK and the fourteenth most populated in Europe.

Forming part of the English Core Cities Group, and often described as the "Capital of the North", Manchester today is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and commerce. In a poll of British business leaders published in 2006, Manchester was regarded as the best place in the UK to locate a business. A report commissioned by Manchester Partnership, published in 2007, showed Manchester to be the "fastest-growing city" economically. It is the third most visited city in the United Kingdom by foreign visitors and is now often considered to be the second city of the UK. Manchester was the host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and among its other sporting connections are its two Premier League football teams, Manchester United and Manchester City.

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Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English singer, songwriter and television personality most famous as one of the five members of English girl group the Spice Girls, where she is known as "Sporty Spice". She is also known as Melanie C or Mel C. As a solo artist she has released four albums and was nominated for a BRIT and ECHO awards. Chisholm holds the record for female who has co-written the most UK number-one singles (equal with Madonna) Chisholm is also third after Lennon and McCartney for most UK number-one singles for a British co-writer.

Prior to becoming a member of the Spice Girls, Chisholm had been studying at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Kent. She was a student on the Diploma course at the college, studying dance, singing, drama and musical theatre. It was while Chisholm was still at college that the advert appeared in the The Stage, that Chris & Brob Herbert were looking to form a new girl group, which would later become the Spice Girls. Chisholm left the college having nearly completed her 3 year course and holds teaching qualifications in Tap and Modern Theatre Dance with the ISTD.

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The following are images from various North West England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1The World of Glass museum in October 2006 (from North West England)
Image 2Motorways of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire to Manchester (from North West England)
Image 3Kelloggs in Manchester, looking north along the A5181 next to GMFRS's Stretford Area Command HQ; the site is the largest producer of cereals in Europe (from North West England)
Image 4Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (from North West England)
Image 5A Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2 (HS 801), built at Woodford (former Avro) and designed in Manchester in the mid-1960s, with XV148 (former Comet 4C) making its first flight on 23 May 1967, flying from Chester (Broughton, which had built many de Havilland fighter jet aircraft) to Woodford; 49 Nimrods were made for the RAF, entering service with 201 Sqn on 6 November 1970, serving until March 2010 with 38 Sqn (from North West England)
Image 6Regional profile of the North West (from North West England)
Image 7Head office of Warburtons in Bolton in April 2006 (from North West England)
Image 8JLR at Halewood (from North West England)
Image 9Essar Energy's Stanlow Refinery, the UK's second largest refinery after Fawley, looking north-east from Wervin (from North West England)
Image 10MediaCityUK being built at Salford Quays (from North West England)
Image 11Liverpool Chinatown is the oldest Chinese community in Europe. (from North West England)
Image 12Exhibit of ICI's Fluothane (Halothane), discovered at Widnes, at Catalyst Science Discovery Centre, near Spike Island in Widnes (from North West England)
Image 131939 Sir Owen Williams Daily Express Building, Manchester (from North West England)
Image 14Manchester's Piccadilly station is the largest and busiest railway station in the region. (from North West England)
Image 15General election results in 2019 (from North West England)
Image 16Statue of John Lennon of the Beatles at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 17Liverpool Lime Street railway station is the main inter-city and long-distance station in Liverpool (from North West England)
Image 18Sir John Deane's College (from North West England)
Image 19Former head office of the Girobank in Bootle; it closed in 2003; it was taken over by Alliance & Leicester in 1990; it was established in Bootle in the late 1960s with help from Hugh Baird; it was the first financial institution in Europe to be fully computerised from the start (from North West England)
Image 20The 1938 Littlewood's Building next to Wavertree Technology Park, on Edge Lane, looking east from Liverpool Cathedral (from North West England)
Image 21Blackburn College (from North West England)
Image 22The M6 motorway is one of the North West's principal roads (from North West England)
Image 23Population pyramid in 2020 (from North West England)
Image 24Aerial view of Liverpool John Lennon Airport (from North West England)
Image 25Carmel College (from North West England)
Image 26Lancaster city centre (from North West England)
Image 27Trafford College (from North West England)
Image 28Winstanley College (from North West England)
Image 29Grand National, Aintree Racecourse (from North West England)
Image 30Cereal Partners UK (Nestlé) make Cheerios and Golden Nuggets on the A41 opposite Port Sunlight at Bromborough, also the base of CSM UK, the baking ingredients company based at a former Unilever Stork margarine site. (from North West England)
Image 31A sign marking entry to Scotland located on the M6 motorway crossing the border of Cumbria. (from North West England)
Image 32English Electric Canberra gate guard at BAE's Samlesbury site (from North West England)
Image 33Liverpool Echo building (from North West England)
Image 34Rainhill Skew Bridge in 1831 (from North West England)
Image 35Proposed flag for the region designed by Peter Saville (from North West England)
Image 36Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool under the River Mersey to Birkenhead, Wirral peninsula (from North West England)
Image 37Calder Hall in 1973 (from North West England)
Image 38JD Sports (in Belfast), the largest company in Bury (from North West England)
Image 39Manchester Metropolitan University's Hollings Campus – the Toast Rack (from North West England)
Image 40Ineos ChlorVinyls at Runcorn in 2006; the UK chemicals industry is worth £57bn, with 180,000 people in around 3,000 companies (from North West England)
Image 41The Jodrell Bank Lovell 76-m radio telescope in Lower Withington, built in August 1957, is the world's third largest steerable telescope, and was the largest until 1971. It was designed by Sheffield's Sir Charles Husband and built of steel from Scunthorpe (from North West England)
Image 42Liverpool Pier Head and Liverpool Cruise Terminal (from North West England)
Image 43Vauxhall's plant in Ellesmere Port exports 88% of its cars, although many of the components are imported, and has made over 5 million since 1962, also making the Vectra from 1995 to 2008; it makes 686 a day (two a minute, 100,000 a year) and the latest model was designed by Mark Adams and Malcolm Ward. Three million Astras have been sold in the UK since 1979, and featured on the Top Gear test track until 2015; the production is split with the Opel Manufacturing Poland site at Gliwice in southern Poland; the Corsa is made at Opel Zaragoza in north-east Spain, with 3-door versions at Opel Eisenach; the Insignia is made at Opel Rüsselsheim (from North West England)
Image 44Unilever Research Laboratory at Port Sunlight (Bebington) looking west, next to the Wirral Line (from North West England)
Image 45Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the largest religious building in the UK (from North West England)
Image 46Old meets new at the Stockport Viaduct; designed by George W. Buck, it is the largest free-standing brick structure in the UK, built in 1840 when it was the largest viaduct in the world; it features in many L. S. Lowry paintings. (from North West England)
Image 47Manchester Airport aerial view (from North West England)
Image 48Liverpool John Lennon Airport Terminal building (from North West England)
Image 49Manchester City College, Didsbury (from North West England)
Image 50Warning signs at Hardknott Pass (from North West England)
Image 51Heinz, although based in Hayes in Middlesex, has the largest food processing complex in Europe at a 55-acre (22 ha) site at Kitt Green in Wigan, which produces 1.4 billion cans of food each year; it is accessed to the east of the Orrell Interchange of the M6 (A577); the 38-acre Heinz NDC is next door (from North West England)
Image 52Victoria Building, University of Liverpool (from North West England)