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Free Digital Skills Training Sessions for Job Seekers

Stockport Central Library will be hosting 4 further Lloyds Bank Academy free digital skills training sessions next month. The weekly sessions are an excellent opportunity for people who are looking for work or volunteering at local charities, who want to brush up on their digital skills. They will … [Read more...]

Take Google’s Quiz and Spot a Phishing Email

Jigsaw Google's latest quiz can help you spot whether an email is genuine or when it is a phishing email. Identifying phishing can be harder than you think. Phishing is an attempt to trick you into giving up your personal information by pretending to be someone you know. Can you tell what's … [Read more...]

Free Wi-Fi gets Stockport town centre connected

Visitors to Stockport town centre can now enjoy FREE Wi-Fi thanks to a new initiative from Totally Stockport, the organisation behind Stockport’s Business Improvement District. The first of a number of stages in the digital rollout, the Wi-Fi will be provided free to anyone who visits the town … [Read more...]

Peaky Blinders Rolling Back to Stockport

Peaky Blinders, one of the biggest and most watched dramas to hit TV screens in the UK, has chosen Stockport as a location for its latest series. Following filming last week, Peaky Blinders, created by Steven Knight, is back in Stockport this week. A British crime drama television series primarily … [Read more...]

Regional: Northern Tech Awards Celebrate Best of North West

The Northern Tech Awards, celebrating the fastest growing and most promising tech companies in the North West, is open for entries. The Northern Tech Awards have been running since 2011 and are part of the events portfolio of GP Bullhound, the leading international technology investment … [Read more...]

Local: Platform81 Achieves Cyber Essentials Plus Certification

Stockport based Platform81 is supporting Cyber Essentials, a simple but effective scheme that helps businesses to protect their organisation, whatever its size, against a whole range of the most common cyber-attacks. The Cyber Essentials Government-backed scheme has grown a lot since its first … [Read more...]

Platform81 Strengthens Senior Management for 2019 Growth

Digital marketing & design agency, Stockport based Platform81, has announced changes to the structure of its senior management team as part of its mission to further develop the company in 2019. Following an "exciting and profitable 2018", Managing Director, Nick Wroe, and Technical Director, … [Read more...]

Mayor Opens Saz Media Event at Merseyway

Stockport Mayor Walter Brett opened the SAZ MEDIA festive community event last Saturday at Merseyway Shopping Centre. The event recognised young beneficiaries aged 12-17 who attended the SAZ MEDIA photography workshop over a period of 5 weeks, it was also an opportunity for young people to gain … [Read more...]

Stockport Residents Benefit From New Digital Funding

Stockport residents are set to benefit from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority's share of an almost £1.3m funding package for two projects which aim to use digital technology to improve public services across the region. The first project worth £80,000, in collaboration with Manchester … [Read more...]

Tablet Winner at Get Online Week

As part of ‘Get Online Week’, Stockport Homes took part and encouraged their customers to ‘try 1 thing’. Organisations across the UK held different events. Stockport Homes put on a week of bitesize digital sessions, to help their customers learn how to access emails, use the internet safely, … [Read more...]

Stockport Hub for High Tech Businesses

Stockport is emerging as a real hub for high tech businesses and new technology, according to the judge of a Dragons Den style competition for start-ups in the area. Lawyer Michael Smoult, a partner in the Wills, Trusts & Probate Team of Gorvins solicitors,  says that contestants in Pioneer 10 … [Read more...]

Christmas scams: the gift that keeps giving to fraudsters!

Don't be caught out! Christmas scams are becoming ever more prevalent as, what becomes more convenient for shoppers, also creates opportunities for fraudsters. Fraud and security may be the last thing on consumers’ minds as they get ready for the end of year festivities, however criminals have … [Read more...]