• Website update

    Spending a little time over Christmas renovating the website. It’s getting tired looking – like its owner I hear you cry.

  • Weekly Diary 18th November 2013

    Remembrance Sunday, Ken Weston RIP and the weekly diary

  • Weekly Diary 10th November 2013

    Waterpark under threat and campaigning stories.

  • Inequality in the UK

    We haven’t seen this degree of inequality since the feudal barons. Prosperous democracies thrive when the gap is reduced and perceived as ‘fair’.

  • Strong communities can’t do everything but don’t get in the way of them doing what they can do

    Interesting and perhaps challenging thoughts from Cormac Russell below. Is it a license for councils to walk away? Perhaps it is, but only to do something of a greater benefit, rather than just to simply cut. Frighteningly, if ‘walking away’ isn’t preceded with, and associated with letting go of…

  • You Decide

    Winning Bids Why would a coming together of nearly two hundred local residents to determine which community groups receive council funding be controversial? The ‘You Decide Day’ last month at Stretford High and other places across Trafford was followed almost immediately by a negative dismissal from certain angles. Historically, the…