Book your stall at The Teenage Market in Stockport’s Market Hall. The event, on the afternoon of Sunday 1st April 2012, offers free stalls to young people and arts-based entrepreneurs who would like a platform to sell their products, promote their skills and engage with the local community. Check out the video below and the [...]

Keith Holloway, Pam King, Iain Roberts and Mark Hunter MP wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This Christmas card was designed by Austin Douglas, aged nine, a pupil at Oakgrove Primary School in Heald Green.  Austin is the winner of Mark Hunter’s 2011 Christmas Card competition.

Thanks to a lot of hard work by the planning committee, Cheadle’s Jubilee celebrations next June look set to be a day that will live long in the memory. Keith and Iain were at the Upper Rooms last night to talk about the latest proposals. The day of celebrations will see Ashfield Road and Ashfield [...]

Stockport Council is encouraging people to add festive cheer to their shopping by paying a visit to local retailers across the borough. With a wide variety of shops in the town centre and district and local centres, people will find everything they need in Stockport for the festive season. The borough is alive with fantastic [...]

Come along to Gatley for a festive evening of fun and late-night Christmas shopping on Thursday 1st December. Twenty shops are opening late, up to 8.00pm. This is combined with a Treasure Hunt, starting at Callaghans Estate Agency in Church Road from 6.00pm, Community Carol singing from 7.15pm at Gatley Green and starring Father Christmas [...]

This morning we were invited to a remembrance service at the Yeshurun Synagogue in Gatley – politicians, police, members of the local christian and muslim communities and others. The Yeshurun community are very good and pair up every guest with a regular who can tell them what’s going on (especially helpful as a good deal [...]

All are welcome to this free event run by young women in Brinnington. Tea & coffee, face painting, DJ, arts and crafts and more. In Your Face – women against domestic violence(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

It has today been announced that Stockport will be welcoming the Olympic Torch to the borough on Sunday 24 June 2012. Heaton Chapel, Offerton, Hazel Grove and Heaviley have been named as four of over 1,000 locations announced by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), through which the Olympic Flame [...]

We had thousands of people visiting the website this week for information on Stockport firework displays. I took the kids to Cheadle Sports Club on Kingsway – we watched the bonfire and fireworks there, and could just about see some of the fireworks from the Together Trust in the distance. Thank you to everyone who [...]

Here are details of the Remembrance Sunday services across Stockport. Civic Service (Stockport) 10.35am – The War Memorial (A6) Bramhall 10.30am – Procession from St Michael’s Church to Bramhall War Memorial. Bredbury 3.00pm – Service at the War Memorial, George Lane, Bredbury, Cheadle 10.30am – Parade to assemble at junction of Massie Street with High [...]