The terrible attack at the Manchester Arena on Monday night has cast a deep shadow over our city. There is a particular resonance here in Whalley Range where police have arrested one of several individuals currently being questioned as they investigate the origins of this outrage. Community groups and leaders, and many local residents are […]
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As a result of the government calling a General Election for Thursday 8 June, the parliamentary by-election for the vacant seat of Manchester Gorton has been cancelled. The seat will of course be contested as part of the General Election, with Afzal Khan standing for the Labour Party. But the GMCA Mayoral election is taking
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Following the sad death of Sir Gerald Kaufman in late February, there will be a by-election for Sir Gerald’s parliamentary seat here in Manchester Gorton constituency, to be held on Thursday 4th May (the same date as the election for Mayor of the GM Combined Authority). Labour members in Manchester Gorton have selected Afzal Khan
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A branch member, our dear friend and a lifelong Labour comrade and activist, Les Jones died earlier this month. Branch chair Angeliki Stogia has written a personal tribute: It was June 2010 when I first met Les at the Whalley Range Labour Party branch meeting. Some of you reading this may not have been to
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Greater Manchester Police, along with other police authorities around the country, want to raise awareness of the dangers of ‘close passing’ – when motorists overtake cyclists dangerously without keeping a safe distance. GMP invited Whalley Range councillor Angeliki Stogia along to the launch exercise of the GMP Pedal Cycle Close Pass Initiative this morning. Plain
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The Whalley Range Labour team are out every week talking to local residents about the issues that concern them. One of the most frequent problems raised on the doorstep is littering and flytipping, especially in the alleyways around Cromwell Avenue and Clarendon Road. Whalley Rangers have launched a new Flytipping Watch campaign, with the full
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Afzal Khan MEP invites all Whalley Range Labour members to a special event at the British Muslim Heritage Centre on Friday 27th January at 7pm. As well as Afzal himself, the meeting will be attended by Andy Burnham MP who of course is Labour’s candidate for the forthcoming Greater Manchester mayoral election in May. Afzal
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Following our earlier post about the 85A bus route, the Manchester Evening News have also featured the new service, with a nice photo of two of our councillors (Angeliki Stogia and Aftab Razaq) along with other local residents who led the successful campaign.
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At the full meeting of the Council on 30 November, Whalley Range Councillors Mary Watson and Angeliki Stogia raised questions with Council Executive members over progress with road gulley cleaning, flytipping and recycling rates following the introduction of new bins. Click on the images to follow the web cam recordings of the questions and responses.
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Thanks to all who came and contributed to our very special event last night to raise money for Refugee Education. Some donations are still coming in, and we’ll update this post with the total when we have it. Special thanks to Mike, JP and Damian in the band, to Laurence the DJ, to Shiasta for
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