In a speech to Demos, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Vince Cable will today set out the key pillars of the Liberal Democrat economic manifesto. Vince Cable will say: We have an economy too dependent on consumer spending and borrowing rather than saving and investment. Too much financial engineering in banking rather than real engineering. Too [...]

I’ve reported the following paving in need of repair in Cheadle & Gatley village centres: – At the corner of Church Road and Oakwood Avenue, by the Co-op, Gatley – Outside the Sadagar Restaurant, 43-45 Church Road, Gatley – Outside 57 Church Road, Gatley – Damaged pavement around the edge of the BT cover in [...]

Stockport Council’s website – www.stockport.gov.uk – has had a re-vamp. The changes to the site have been made following valuable feedback from residents. Changes have also been made following an independent assessment from The Shaw Trust – a national charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people. These changes will ensure that the new website is [...]

Let’s get active! That’s the message to all Stockport residents from some of the borough’s biggest sporting stars. With 2010 here, local people are being encouraged to make a fresh start for the New Year by getting fitter, healthier and more active. To help everyone keep their New Year’s resolutions, the Council and Stockport Sports [...]

Tickets are now on sale for the Annual Hatters’ Ball in aid of the Mayor of Stockport’s Charity Fund. The Ball will be held on Friday, 29 January 2010 at 7.00 pm in the Ballroom at Stockport Town Hall. Tickets cost £50 each and are available from the Town Hall Box Office by calling 474 [...]

The Safer Stockport Partnership is encouraging people who feel they have been the victim of a hate crime not to suffer in silence and report it. Hate crimes are defined as incidents which may or may not constitute a criminal offence, which is perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated by [...]

Stockport Council will be marking the UK’s 10th annual Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday 27th January. Holocaust Memorial Day aims to educate people about the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and all forms of discrimination. It is commemorated internationally on 27th January, the date in 1945 when the allies liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. [...]

Cheadle’s Abney Hall has been a stately home, featured in an Agatha Christie novel, been a town hall, a language school and an office building.  Now its owners, Bruntwood, want it to become an Independent school, and they came along to Thursday’s Cheadle Village Partnership to tell us about it and get some feedback. So [...]

The Heroes Welcome in Stockport campaign was launched on 11th November 2009 by the Mayor Colin MacAlister.  It aims to encourage local businesses and organisations including retailers to offer discounts to serving armed forces personnel on production of an identification card. Sounds good to me.  If you’re a business sign up, decide what level of [...]

Cheadle Area Committee is holding a special Public Forum: ‘Underage drinking, health and anti-social behaviour’ with representatives from Mosaic, the Police and the Community Safety Unit taking part and answering questions from the public at the next Cheadle Area Meeting on the 26th January. Cllr June Somekh (leader of Cheadle Area Committee) has stated that: [...]