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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30/10/2017 update: For more recent information about the boundary changes, see this post The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) are currently reviewing all the ward boundaries for the Manchester City Council district (this is completely separate from the national review of parliamentary constituencies which is also ongoing). LGBCE have today published their draft
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Local cycling group Whalley Range on Wheels, based in Alexandra Park, have picked up a joint Best Community Project award from Cycling UK. Many congratulations go to them and especially to local campaigner Eve Holt, shown here second from left receiving the award.
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Following the launch meeting in September, Whalley Range Labour women members are now proud to promote the DivaManc Switch-On event to be held on Thursday 10th November at Whalley Range High School for Girls. It’s open to all women in Greater Manchester – for more details and to reserve a place, please see this page
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From today, buses are running every 30 minutes through the Withington Road shopping district (terminating in the city centre and Chorlton bus station), following a successful campaign by the Withington Road First Steps project. Whalley Range councillors Aftab Razaq and Angeliki Stogia joined others this morning to see the new service get underway. Angeliki says
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Whalley Range Labour is proud to host an event in support of refugee education, with all funds raised going to the charity Help Refugees. It’s from 7pm to 10pm on Saturday 3rd December at the Carlton Club, 113 Carlton Road, Whalley Range M16 8BE; admission is £5 for non-members and free for Labour Party members
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As most readers (hopefully!) know, Jeremy Corbyn was comfortably re-elected as leader at this year’s national Party Conference in Liverpool. However a lot of other matters were discussed, debated and voted on – Whalley Range Labour member Gerry Collier attended, and as usual has prepared a really detailed report which you can read online on
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A landlord has been fined £108,000 and ordered to pay the Council’s costs after being found guilty of breaking a number of safety rules and other requirements at properties in Whalley Range, following an investigation by Manchester City Council’s Housing Enforcement and Compliance Team. They discovered a catalogue of breaches of management regulations at five
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Whalley Range councillors Mary Watson and Angeliki Stogia joined other local women at Manley Park Play Centre in Whalley Range on 22 September for a special discussion event to launch the new group #DIVAMANC and campaign for “a woman’s eye view of Greater Manchester devoluton”. Eve Holt, who lives in Whalley Range and helped organise
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