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Qatar Airways, the multiple award-winning airline, is increasing its flight frequency from Manchester Airport to three flights per day from 14th June in another show of confidence in the UK market. The route launched in April 2003 and went double-daily in February 2011. The move to the triple … [Read more...]

GREATER Manchester’s ambitious and ground-breaking plans to become carbon neutral, creating the UK’s leading green and digital city-region, have been backed by Government in the city-region’s new Local Industrial Strategy.  As part of the strategy, the UK’s first city-region Clean Growth Mission … [Read more...]

Russell Brown, owner of Heaton Moor based property search and report company, X-Press Legal Services Greater Manchester & Cheshire, has been named Franchisee of the year.  The top award was presented to Russell, a Stockport local, at a ceremony which took place at Rookery Hall in … [Read more...]

Anyone who manages Facilities Management and has run a business understands how taking the entrepreneurial path leads to you becoming a jack-of-all-trades, whether you like it or not. At one point or another, whatever your particular skills and background, you are bound to get your hands dirty … [Read more...]

Stockport based Life Leisure has earned a double gong for its services to the community and its staff. Life Leisure, a charitable trust that manages 12 sports and leisure facilities in and around Stockport and one in Cumbria, returned victorious from both the UKactive Active Uprising Awards and … [Read more...]

Homes and green businesses generating renewable and low-carbon electricity are to be guaranteed money for excess electricity supplied to the grid. New solar homes and businesses creating and exporting electricity to the grid will be guaranteed a payment from suppliers under new laws introduced by … [Read more...]

Stockport set out it's own plans to contribute to Greater Manchester’s ambition to become a carbon neutral city-region within two decades through the Clean Air Campaign boosted by the publication of a comprehensive Whole System Smart Energy Plan, outlining a programme of concerted activity over the … [Read more...]

As the Government’s consultation on the future of UK aviation comes to a close in a matter of days, the UK’s third biggest airport today called for a firm commitment to the North, as it edged closer to an historic high of 30m passengers. Last month saw the airport reach 28.9m annual passengers, … [Read more...]