News for: Digital and Media

Stockport Council has improved accessibility on its website to make it easier for residents to use regardless of disability or digital skills. The Stockport Council website has deployed the 'Recite Me' accessibility tool. It allows users to have text read out to them and change fonts and colours … [Read more...]

Speaking in a panel discussion as part of Digital Leaders Week, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham shared progress made towards achieving the ambition of becoming a 100% digitally-enabled city-region. Achievements spanned work including digitisation of early years, digital infrastructure, and … [Read more...]

Stockport’s heritage local Radio station, Imagine, has been absorbed into Bauer’s portfolio to expand the reach of Manchester’s Greatest Hits Radio into areas across Cheshire, the High Peak and parts of Derbyshire. From next month, Imagine FM, who for over 30 years broadcast music, interviews and … [Read more...]

A new report published by the Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership (GMLEP) has revealed how the city-region has become a global hub new tech and ecommerce businesses. In How Greater Manchester became the land of tech unicorns and eCommerce giants, the GMLEP have outlined how the … [Read more...]

Stockport digital and creative agency Platform81 have recently completed a project with League One football club, Charlton Athletic. The agency has recently launched an improved membership page for the club in order to expand and improve the online experience for their members. Having previously … [Read more...]

Stockport has been chosen as one of several towns to host their own Digital Radio transmission site. The platform known as Small Scale DAB (SSDAB) will be launched later this year and offer greater access for large and small stations alike to be heard across the area. Up until now there has … [Read more...]

Newly-reelected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has set out his ambitions to support all under-25s, over-75s and disabled people with the skills and technology to get online. The announcement comes after recent figures from ONS show that 176,000 Greater Manchester residents have not … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has joined over 140 other organisations working to close the UK's digital skills gap. FutureDotNow, bringing together local authorities as well as major employers such as BT, M&S, Nationwide BS and Accenture, is working to address the 17 million … [Read more...]