I’ve received this request from the police: On the evening of Saturday 17/04/10 a number of student from Kingsway School were attacked in an unprovoked manner by a large number of youths from Wythenshawe.  Some of the injuries are serious.  The police have increased patrols around the school and the park, and are also working [...]

Mark’s contract with everyone in our area: 1. I will continue to put local people first. I will be there to help, listen to your concerns and stand up for what matters to you. 2. I will continue to be an accessible, locally based MP with advice surgeries held twice each week to assist residents. [...]

Yesterday’s Cheadle Area Committee was at Cheadle library – not the usual venue.  It was a quick meeting too (normal service will  doubtless resume after the election). The surprise of the night was on funding for the Gatley Festival.  The organisers are having trouble raising the £8,000 needed to run the week of events and [...]

Coming back home this evening, I noticed the Council have removed the tree stumps outside 20 Torkington Road, 32 Torkington Road and 3 Springfield Road in Gatley (hopefully the one by 6 Barcheston in Cheadle’s also been removed, but I didn’t see it this evening). This is work Pam King and I decided to fund [...]

Today, 20th April, is your last chance to make your voice heard on 6th May and have your vote. You can register to vote online – it just takes a couple of minutes. Click here to register and have your say on the future of our country.

Since Thursday the Lib Dems have been neck-and-neck with Labour and the Conservatives across the country, much to our amazement.  We never doubted we had the best people and the best policies, but we’ve always struggled to overcome the credibility gap and persuade people we can win. That’s changed.  The Lib Dems can win.  Not [...]

I’ve been asked by AboutMyArea and Gatley.net to provide a candidate statement, putting my case as to why the residents of Cheadle & Gatley should re-elect me as a local councillor on 6th May. Since the first was 300 words and the second 200, there’s been some editing between the two to get the word [...]

Stockport residents can now recycle even more materials at over a hundred different recycling sites across the borough. Stockport Council has enhanced recycling facilities at supermarkets and local shops to make recycling more materials even easier for residents. Cardboard, newspapers and magazines, drinks cartons, phone books, plastic bottles, glass, cans, aerosols and aluminium foil can [...]

The General Election and Stockport Council local election both take place on Thursday 6th May. Stockport residents aged 18 and over by that date, who aren’t on the current electoral register, are reminded that the last day to register to vote in time for both elections is Tuesday, 20 April. Residents must be on the [...]

The victim, who is in his 50s, was watching Spanish football at the Prince of Wales pub in Gatley at about 11.20pm on Saturday 27 March 2010, when he began chatting with a group of four men and two women. The group began mocking the victim and one of the offenders approached him and put [...]