Councillors Angeliki Stogia, Mary Watson and Aftab Razaq have added another new venue for their regular advice sessions, at the Range Medical Centre on Withington Road. The first session at the new centre will be held on Monday 23rd July at 5pm, with future sessions held there on the second and fourth Monday of every […]
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From this Sunday 1st July, Whalley Range councillors Angeliki Stogia, Mary Watson and Aftab Razaq will be holding a regular advice session at Chorlton Lodge in Alexandra Park, on the first Sunday of every month from 12 noon to 1pm. Since the beginning of May, Whalley Range ward has had new boundaries. Before then the
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The people of Whalley Range went to the polls yesterday in the Manchester local elections, with all three seats on the council up for grabs. On a cool day, there was a turnout of 37% and the results were as follows: Aftab Razaq Labour Party 2,483 Mary Watson Labour Party 2,379 Angeliki Stogia Labour Party
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Thursday is polling day across Manchester, where because of the ward boundary changes all the council seats are up for election. This means you have three votes instead of the usual one – use them to re-elect your Labour councillors, Aftab Razaq, Angeliki Stogia and Mary Watson. Five things to remember:
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This Saturday 21st at 10.30am, please come along to Whalley Range Labour’s Women’s Coffee Morning to meet with your three local Labour councillors and your Member of Parliament. Mary, Aftab, Angeliki and Afzal will be hosting an informal coffee morning to give local women a chance to listen to the issues their councillors and MP
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At the full Council Meeting on 21 March, Labour councillors voted unanimously to ensure that planning committee members have more transparent information from property developers about the viability of the schemes, when assessing the contribution which developers must make as part of the negotiation for planning approval. Councillor Angeliki Stogia, who spoke in favour of
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Mary, Angeliki and Aftab cycle on Upper Chorlton RoadGreater Manchester recently won £22m of government funding for Phase 2 of the Cycle City Ambition Grant (CCAG2). Manchester City Council have allocated some of this grant to create a new Chorlton Road Cycle Corridor linking Chorlton with central Manchester and including a section running along Upper
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After the dreadful attack at the Manchester Arena in May, Manchester people from all communities have come together to show solidarity against this atrocity. But there has also been a reported upsurge in racially motivated hate crime, particularly directed against women. Whalley Range Labour councillor Mary Watson proposed a motion in the Council meeting on
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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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