Today the new way of assessing councils has been launched by the Government and the first reports are all online. Unfortunately, they aren’t comparable to the old star ratings: they measure totally different things in totally different ways and have a different scoring system too. Stockport’s reports are here (if the site is back up). […]

Today The Federation of Small Businesses officially announced their full support for Mark Hunter MP’s “save the cheque” campaign. The organisation, as stated on their website, is ‘the UK’s largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has 215,000 members across […]

Following the launch of the national annual ifs Young Business Writer of the Year competition, Hazel Grove MP Andrew Stunell has urged teenagers living in the Stockport area to get involved and say what they think about bankers pay and bonuses. The banking crisis has had wide ranging effects on the UK and much has […]

As reported in the Manchester Evening News:  only 749 people have made an appointment to enrol in Greater Manchester for an ID card. That is around 0.04 per cent of the total eligible population of 1.8m in this ‘pilot’ area for the ID card scheme. When will the Government admit they’ve got it wrong and […]

From Mark’s website: Cheadle MP Mark Hunter has launched a new campaign to “save the cheque” after growing concern over news that high street banks are planning to stop the use of cheques. Yesterday (26 November) Mr Hunter tabled a cross-party Parliamentary motion which, just two hours after calling on other Members to sign it, […]

Sometime in the next few days, Stockport residents should get the latest copy of The Stockport Review through their letterboxes. It may be something that usually spends little time between doormat and blue recycling bin, but take a quick look this time.  OK, I don’t expect you to be very excited at it being the […]

Christmas has come early for Stockport’s shoppers as the Council, in conjunction with town centre partners, announce that parking will be FREE in Merseyway car park from the 12th December up until Christmas Eve. The free parking at Merseyway runs all day from Saturday 12th December up to and including the 24th December. This is […]

 This is your chance to reward and recognise people who make a difference in Stockport by entering them in the borough’s citizens’ awards: Proud of Stockport. The Awards are now in their third year, celebrating those who do exceptional and extraordinary things to support our communities. Do you know an individual or a group of […]

Dear resident, The last two months have been as busy as ever, both in Parliament and in the community tackling the issues that really count. I have decided to make my email updates more concise and so they are easier to digest, but I have made sure there are links to different news stories on […]

Across the Granada region, which covers the whole of stockport and most of the North West besides, the analog signal for BBC2 will be turned off tomorrow, in most cases at 6am  (some will be turned off later in the day). If you still have an analog TV just picking up the signal from the […]