Inside Manchester's top secret spy headquarters above a Greggs and Chinese restaurant.
Through a glass door next to a Chinese restaurant, in an anonymous 1970s office block above a barbers and a Greggs, lies Manchester's most secretive building.
The central location, on Albert Square opposite the the scaffold-clad town hall, is symbolic of this shift in culture. The part of the building we're permitted to see has the same security rating as most government buildings. Inside Heron House the windows and walls have enhanced security measures for protection against a number of potential threats.
"The pace of technological change at the moment is so fast that the old ways of doing it just aren't going to cut it anymore," said Liz, GCHQ's deputy director for Manchester, who declines to give her surname for security reasons. "And the opportunity of being here just opens us up. We're right in the city centre. This way we can be a little bit more friendly and invite people in."
GCHQ already has branches in Scarborough, Bude in Cornwall and London. But its Manchester station gives it more opportunities to recruit from outside its traditional white, male, upper and middle-class demographic.
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