I took my daughter* to Manchester Airport this morning and we welcomed home our Stockport swimmers, back from the World Championships in China. Keri-Anne Payne (below) returned from winning Gold in the women’s 10km swim, to see her newborn niece for the first  time. Stockport has (if I’ve counted right) 14 olympians and para-olympians, including [...]

Here’s our latest Keeping in Touch leaflet being delivered to Cheadle & Gatley at the moment. C&G July 2011 a3(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); })();

For some time I’ve been trying to figure out how to include Pam King in the blog as she contributes a lot of the stories and information we post here. I couldn’t work out how to do it, but over the weekend there’s been an upgrade to the version of WordPress the blog uses and [...]

United Utilities have published advice for anyone suffering from burst pipes due to the thaw.  Take a look here. I’ve not been told about significant burst pipe issues in our area, so I’m hoping we’ve got off lightly, but do let me know if you know otherwise.

From Stockport Council: Stockport’s extraordinary people are to be recognised again in the borough’s popular Proud of Stockport awards. Do you know someone who helps to make Stockport special? Is there an individual, a group, a volunteer, or perhaps a local personality, or someone else who deserves recognition for good and community spirit? The list [...]

I’d pretty much forgotten about the Total Politics blog awards, so it came as a complete surprise to find this morning that this blog has been voted the 29th top blog by a councillor. Ninety percent of the stories on this blog are very local, mostly relating just to my ward, so I’ve no idea [...]

From the Council, though I certainly add my congratulations: Congratulations to John Schultz, former Council Chief Executive, who has received a CBE for Services to Local Government in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. John Schultz joined the Council as Chief Executive in May 1994 and retired in March this year. He was also President [...]

The Editor of the Stockport Times, Paul Harrison, will be out and about on Thursday 1st July so we, his eager readers, can let him know what we want to see in the paper.  He’ll be visiting five locations, each with the local reporter responsible for covering that area. Brinnington Community Centre, 9am-10am with Jennifer [...]

The Met Office has issued the following warning for the Cheshire area for Wednesday 13th January: “There is a moderate risk of a severe weather event affecting parts of Northern Ireland, southern and central England and North Wales. A band of snow will move slowly northeastwards overnight and into Wednesday, gradually easing through the day. [...]

January 2010 Dear resident, First of all, Happy New Year! I hope that you had a relaxing and joyful time over the festive period and were lucky enough to spend time with loved ones. Sadly, as my mother passed away just before Christmas, it was not such a good time for me this year but [...]