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It’s a Big Stockport Christmas Experience

The Big Stockport Christmas Experience is about to arrive in Stockport where late-night shopping, free parking, festive food and drinks, Victorian markets, dazzling light shows and our very own Christmas Snow Garden is set to make this a sparkling Stockport Christmas. This year, ‘The Big Stockport … [Read more...]

Passenger numbers at Manchester Airport flying high

Autumn has seen passenger numbers at Manchester airport continue to grow as 2.4million flew through the UK's 3rd largest airport and despite the collapse of Monarch.    October saw 2,404,521 passengers fly through Manchester Airport, 3.1% up on the same month in 2016. It follows the Northern hub’s … [Read more...]

MAG Bond to Fund Transformation Programmes

MAG, the UK’s leading airport group, has priced a £300m, 22-year MAG bond, with an annual coupon of 2.875% and order book that was over three times oversubscribed at around £1bn. The group will use the proceeds of the MAG bond to fund the transformational capital investment programmes that the Group … [Read more...]

Stockport County Supporters mobbed in China

It was a football turn up of a different kind when our local team headed east - Stockport County Supporters mobbed in China The group of supporters, who play for the Stockport County Supporters FC in the Stockport & District Sunday League, is co-managed by County Commercial Manager Simon … [Read more...]

Stockport’s NK Theatre Arts presents Road

Romiley based NK Theatre Arts presents Road, the first play written by Jim Cartwright and first produced in 1986. The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived, working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher, a time of high unemployment in the north of … [Read more...]

Direct flights to China show big regional business benefits

Research reveals how direct flights to China from the North to Beijing are delivering a significant business benefit to the region.  Almost exactly two years since President Xi Jinping visited the North and announced the UK’s first direct flights to China outside of London, research released today … [Read more...]

A57 Mottram bypass in £242m Trans-Pennine plan

Plans for the A57 Mottram bypass has won the backing of road users and will be taken forward as part of £242million improvements to help people travelling along the vital Manchester to Sheffield Trans-Pennine route. The notoriously congested route between Manchester and Glossop has seen … [Read more...]

Finnair adds extra seats from Manchester and Helsinki

Visitors to Lapland will have greater choice as Finnair are to offer an extra 2,700 seats between Manchester and Helsinki over the Winter season. Finnair has announced that it will be increasing capacity between Manchester and Helsinki by 12 per cent, more than 2,700 seats, during the busy winter … [Read more...]

S Club set to star at Stockport Christmas Lights Switch-on

Stars of S Club and X FACTOR will be lighting up Merseyway at the biggest and brightest Stockport Christmas Lights Switch-on yet! 90’s and noughties pop band, S Club Party, are set to headline this year’s Stockport Christmas lights switch-on at Merseyway Shopping Centre in Stockport. The … [Read more...]

Singapore Airlines clocks up 2.5m miles from Manchester

Singapore Airlines celebrates the one year anniversary of its transatlantic Manchester to Houston route clocking up 2.5 millions en route. Launched in October in the year that Singapore Airlines also celebrated 30 years of flying from Manchester, the route is the first and only transatlantic flight … [Read more...]

Flybe takes off from Manchester to Southend

Manchester Airport has added yet another domestic route to its network as Flybe takes off from Manchester to Southend.   To mark the new route a traditional terminal celebration took place with cake for passengers to enjoy. The new flights will operate up to three times daily from the UK’s global … [Read more...]

MAG calls for UK wide aviation strategy

Manchester Airports Group - MAG - is calling for a UK wide aviation strategy to improve international connectivity. The Government’s new aviation strategy should set out an ambitious plan for improving international connectivity from UK airports as part of its vision for a new global Britain, … [Read more...]