NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Visiting Greggs in Manchester city centre for a vegan sausage roll, one would not imagine they are meters away from a top secret spy base.
Through a glass door next to a Chinese restaurant on Albert Square, lies the office of GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence, security an cyber agency.
Working alongside MI5 and MI6, its heritage goes back to the infamous Bletchley Park, where codebreakers helped wartime intelligence efforts.
The hi-tech Manchester headquarters only opened at the end of 2019, but not a lot has been shared about what is happening inside since then.