Marketing solutions provider, APS Group has won a three-year, multi-million pound print management contract with animal welfare charity the RSPCA. As part of the deal, APS Group will manage and produce all print materials for the RSPCA, including direct mail, promotional leaflets, banners and … [Read more...]
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STOCKPORT BLACK BIN AMNESTY
Stockport Council is asking residents to get in contact if they have acquired an extra black bin for non-recyclable waste. It costs four times as much to dispose of waste in black bins than it does to recycle waste. Using an extra black bin when it’s not needed causes costly delays to … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT BASED API GROUP WARNS OF OFFERS BELOW MARKET VALUE
AIM listed Stockport packaging and foils manufacturing group API, has reported that it has recieved "below market value" offers after being put up for sale in September last year when it stated a market value of £48m. API, which is partly owned by US investors Steel Partners and … [Read more...]
NEW FILM INSPIRES YOUNG TALENT TO PURSUE CREATIVE SECTOR APPRENTICESHIP
A new film has been launched today by the National Apprenticeship Service to encourage more young people to take up an Apprenticeship in the creative sector. The film features four young people working in different creative industries who share their stories about how an Apprenticeship set them … [Read more...]
FRIDAY FUN……ENTER THE VIRGIN LOOKALIKE COMPETITION
Virgin media ambassador Usain Bolt is asking people to send in their best lookalike pictures, after partnering up with his own lookalike, Barrington, for the latest Virgin Media advert. Bolt himself will pick the winning entries, with the prizes on offer including; a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT CARRIAGEWAY RESURFACING UPDATE
Stockport Council is currently undertaking a programme of carriageway repairs across the borough. Resurfacing work will take place from the junction of Edgeley Road to Europa Way in Edgeley and will be carried out in the following phases: Phase 1 - Edgeley Road to Railway Bridge. Work … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT RESIDENTS LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THE FAIR ENERGY SCHEME AUCTION
With less than a week to go until the first auction, residents across Stockport are being urged to save hundreds of pounds from their fuel bills as part of an energy switching scheme. Residents are being encouraged to use ‘people power’ and join a ground breaking … [Read more...]
GOOD NEWS AS STOCKPORT JOB SEEKERS NUMBERS FALL
Good news for Stockport as the number of people in Stockport claiming Jobseekers Allowance continued to fall, and much faster than the Greater Manchester, North West and UK averages. The fall was even bigger (7.5%) for 18-14 year olds and we also saw falls in all our priority areas (which … [Read more...]
UP TO 10,000 GBP TO HELP COMMUNITIES REDUCE, RE-USE AND RECYCLE MORE
Stockport communities, voluntary groups and not for profit organisations with an interest in increasing re-use or recycling and reducing waste can apply for funding to help. Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) are keen to help increase the number of community groups’ actively … [Read more...]
MOBILE PHONE APP IS UK FIRST FOR GREATER MANCHESTER
The people of Stockport can now help to fight crime in Greater Manchester with the UK’s first location based policing mobile phone app. Greater Manchester Police has used geo-location technology to allow people to become crimefighters and to get closer to their local neighbourhood … [Read more...]
JANUARY 2013 MARKET VIEW FROM PREST FINANCIAL SERVICES
Stockport based Prest Financial Services have published their latest view on the financial market. Share prices around the world have risen following the agreement over the “fiscal cliff ” in the USA. However, the debt problem has been merely deferred and further confrontations … [Read more...]
CHILDREN’S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST DONATION
Staff at Prest Financial Services in Hazel Grove raised £250 for the Children's Advernture Farm Trust to help towards this years holiday programme. The CAFT provides holidays for children, regardless of ability, to have the holiday of thier lives. In most cases some children have never … [Read more...]