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  • Raglan Road

    Letter issued 15th July 2010 to John Lamb (Director of Environment) Trafford Borough Council from Councillor Mike Cordingley John, Firstly I need to declare an interest in that I live on Raglan Road. I’m writing in anticipation of an escalation of complaints from neighbours over the state of the Raglan Road surface. I’ve been getting…

  • Call in of Executive Decision on Closure of Lostock College/Stretford High School

    Dear Councillor / Colleague – Please note that Councillor Shaw, as Chairman of Overview & Scrutiny Core Committee, has agreed to a request that the Executive’s recent decision relating to Lostock College / Stretford High School / Proposed Academy should be called in for Scrutiny, by the Overview & Scrutiny Core Committee. As is usual…

  • Free School Meals Debate

    The case for universal free school meals is pretty much proven and well made by Kate Green and others in this Westminster Hall debate.

  • Lostock College / Stretford High Closure

    A special meeting of Trafford Council’s executive is meet on Monday 5th July to take the decision to close Lostock College and Stretford High School to enable the opening of an Academy at Stretford High (subject to the funding remaining in place) The report CLICK Here for full report Details of the meeting: Time: 6:00pm…

  • The Tories’ unforgivable attack on UK industry

    What is about industry that the Tories hate so much? Having laid to waste huge swathes of our manufacturing inheritance during their rule in the 1980s, they’re at it again. The Tories have pulled the plug on an £80m loan to Sheffield Forgemasters. Economically, this decision is stupid. It puts at risk our participation in one…

  • Petitioning for the Parks

    We spent a really productive morning in Urmston Town Centre petitioning for the retention of the senior parks staff. Got to speak to loads of residents from the Lostock area/Gorse Hill area, all of whom were supportive of the petition. We, the undersigned local residents, wish to place on record our appreciation of the tremendous…