Our appreciation of Professor Brian Cox has been mentioned on here. So too has my ever so mild irritation that the University of Manchester ...

Nick Clegg's interview in the Sunday Times and on the BBC here warns Labour that having the third lowest number of votes undermines the...

The candidates have been formally announced for the three Stockport constituencies, here . As well as Andrew Stunell , Annesley Abercorn an...

Stockport Council's team are doing a decent job of repairing the road. They needed to, Church Lane is like an unmade road.

Tuesday morning at Marple station saw the Conservative candidate and his chums handing out leaflets. Though my source tells me Annesley Aber...

The progress of the general election campaign locally has been slow. The Liberal Democrat incumbent Andrew Stunell has far more posters arou...

I do like to namedrop, you may have noticed. But I cannot possibly compete with blogging chum Laura Wolfe and her husband Anthony Turner an...

I found it mystifying that the Blackburn Rovers goal of the season competition has been trailed with three games to go. The inclusion of Sam...

Hibbert Lane and Upper Hibbert Lane in Marple are to have some Surface Dressing work - all the way from Church Lane in Marple centre to Win...

The news that Sir Richard Leese has been in a spot of domestic bother is covered elsewhere, here , here and here . I'm not commenting b...

In the American presidential debates Ronald Reagan nailed both Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale with the same line: "there you go again...

At Morecambe college in 1984 one of my teachers, Graham Cayley, came in to class one day in an agitated state. He'd been at a union meet...

Labour supporting friends have got their mojo back. They believe the country could find itself in a dreadful state if the Tories get it. I r...

Ever wondered who should be in a team made up entirely of Blackburn Rovers players who you wouldn't let near your daughter? Confused as ...

Whoever you support you look forward to playing Manchester United at home. If it's in the cup, then that's the draw you want. In the...

Tony Marchant's sprawling masterpiece Holding On was an 8 part TV series shown in 1997. It features a series of unrelated but vaguely ...

Had a very pleasant stroll around Manchester's Northern Quarter this Thursday just gone. Lunch at Kabana, popped into the new Oi Polloi ...

We've had two leaflets through the door. One from Andrew Stunell, the sitting Liberal Democrat MP. The other is from David Cameron. No m...

If local councils have one function left then it is the job of collecting the rubbish. In recent months our local authority, Stockport, thro...

At last, they've called the flipping election. I cannot see how the Conservatives can overturn Labour's majority. It's going to ...