Marketing Stockport News

A new award created to highlight the best of Stockport's artisan and creative businesses has attracted over 5,000 public votes. The Made In Stockport Awards 2021 were set up by local Stockport creative Aqua Design Group to promote and showcase the town’s creative and business community, in … [Read more...]

Dave Taylor from Handforth IT support experts, Amshire IT, explains how small businesses are still at risk from cybersecurity and data breaches. 28% of small businesses in the UK became victims of a data breach last year. That figure will be bigger this year thanks to the pandemic and increase … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester's political leaders have published their Bus Services Improvement Plan, which is to be submitted to the national government as part of progress towards bus franchising and a London-style transport network for the city-region. Plans have been based on customer research to … [Read more...]

Caroline Simpson, deputy chief executive, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and Director of Place, scooped the coveted Property Personality of the Year Award at Insider’s 2021 North-West Property Awards. The property awards, fittingly held at the impressive, 140-year-old former Manchester … [Read more...]

Stockport's Director of Public Health, Jennifer Connolly, has reminded residents of ways to limit the transmission of Covid-19 and seasonal illnesses during half term as case rates of Covid-19 remain high across the borough. Persistently high numbers are continuing to test positive for Covid-19 … [Read more...]

UK STATISTICS There have been about 8.6 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 139,000 people have died, government figures show. Around 86% of people in the UK aged 12 and over have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and around 79% have had their … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Transport Commissioner Chris Boardman have launched a public conversation to hear views on plans for the Bee Network, a fully integrated public transport system for the city-region. Ambitions for the Bee Network will see Greater Manchester benefit from a … [Read more...]

Local employers are invited to showcase their opportunities for work placements under the government's Kickstart Scheme at a jobs fair for young people in Stockport. The event aims to support the Kickstart scheme, a government initiative launched during the coronavirus pandemic to help under 25s … [Read more...]