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  • New York style Taxis coming here?

    I hope they’re blue Big plans in the offing here to reform Greater Manchester's taxi systemhttps://t.co/jAtDtRUC2E — Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) July 10, 2018

  • Big Plans for Albert Square

    Big plans for Albert Square…https://t.co/clJ9AmRUdl — Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliamsMEN) July 11, 2018

  • Trafford’s Labour Council publishes its resurfacing list for 2018/19

    Trafford’s Labour Council publishes its resurfacing list for 2018/19

    A TOTAL of £7.7million will be invested in Trafford’s pot-hole ravaged roads over the next 12 months. The funding is part of the Council’s new highways improvement programme for 2018-19, and will help to repair and maintain some of the borough’s 518 miles of roads. Gorse Hill Roads scheduled for the work include Chatsworth Road…

  • Update on the Senior Team at Trafford Council

    Update on the Senior Team at Trafford Council

    Jim Taylor, chief executive of Salford City Council, will also hold the dual role of interim chief executive of Trafford Council until the end of the year. The appointment comes after the news last week of Theresa Grant resigning as Trafford chief executive, understood to be following the change in political leadership from Conservative to…

  • Conservative Councillor claims he left Trafford in great state

    Conservative Councillor claims he left Trafford in great state

    After applying a scorched-earth policy to Trafford’s services, a leading conservative councillor has written that things were rosy when he left it. Despite Amey PLC, despite the rise in crime and reductions in police numbers, despite the appalling maintenance of our roads and pavements etc etc, Councillor Mike Whetton thinks we’re in great shape. http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/yoursay/letters/16319688.tories-have-left-trafford-in-great-financial-state/?ref=mc&lp=2

  • Manchester takes a huge leap forward as it aims for Dutch Style cycling across the city

    Manchester takes a huge leap forward as it aims for Dutch Style cycling across the city

    A thousand miles of safe cycling and walking routes are to be created in Greater Manchester after an Olympic gold medallist persuaded town hall bosses to spend as much on cyclists and pedestrians as Amsterdam and other cycling nirvanas. The network – named Beelines, in homage to Manchester’s civic symbol of the worker bee –…