• Kate’s Blog 13th January 2012

    Happy new year! Parliament resumed this week, and the holiday seems a long time ago. I spent the first day back dealing with a backlog of emails. But by Wednesday, I was up and out of the office very first thing to attend a breakfast meeting. I met…

  • Champions of Lostock: Luke Winstanley and Edward Howells

    Unsung Hero Awards 2011: Voted champions of Lostock Advertiser Story A get-together organised by two teenage boys is more than just a quiz night for its elderly attendees. It’s a chance to get out of the house and make friends. Luke Winstanley and Edward Howells have been nominated…

  • Dave Acton gets top post at Fire Authority

    Gorse Hill is on the map with new appointment for Dave David Acton is the new Chairman of Greater Manchester’s award-winning Fire and Rescue Authority. In leading the Authority, Councillor Acton is joined by Vice Chairman, Councillor Henry Cooper. The appointment was made at a meeting of the…

  • Carbuncles?

    Creativity amongst the Carbuncles Last week I took the chance whilst waiting for a meeting to look out over Media City from one of the best viewpoints – Quay West, our own temporary town hall. The officer I was meeting caught me staring out across the span of…

  • Thoughts on the Riots

    Unwanted echo of the 80s as riots return to our cities It’s been an awful week of violence and wanton destruction on our streets. I won’t have been the only one glued to 24 hr news late towards dawn on those four nights of chaos. I won’t have…

  • Passageway from Barton Road to Cromford Avenue

    I am disappointed in the deterioration of this passageway. I’ve reported it to the council and I’m demanding immediate action to rectify image: my own Mike Cordingley