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…

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…

I love this video from the Kings Fund.It’s informative rather than political but it illustrates thecomplexity of the new structures that Lansley and Hunt have imposed onus. And it does so in such an easy manner! Highly recommended. 

No surprise that we feature so prominently in the league table. The Imperial War Museum made it to number 9The Manchester United Museum just pipped it at number 7And Number 1 was our near neighbour The Lowry – just a footbridge away I’m delighted that we’re recognised across…

The Labour Group has called for an extraordinary Council meeting in order to instruct officers to appeal against the decision to grant the Biomass incineration Plant made by the Conservative Secretary of State Eric Pickles. Councillor David Acton, Leader of Trafford Labour Group said, ” Eric Pickles has…