Marketing Stockport News

Businesses in Stockport are invited to take part in a free webinar to discuss how they can support health and wellbeing in workplaces across Greater Manchester. Did you know that approximately one third of UK employees have a long-term health condition? And 42% of these individuals feel that … [Read more...]

The Citizens Advice SORT group, covering Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford, reported that it supported a record 45,000 clients over the phone since the start of the pandemic, a 41% increase on the previous year. The organisation's 80 staff and 77 volunteers, who have been working from home … [Read more...]

The Government has announced that all employers with over ten workers can access home test kits as part of an expansion of the workplace coronavirus testing programme. Over 60,000 businesses have already registered for the scheme, which had previously been limited to businesses with 50 employees … [Read more...]

Businesses leaders from the across the country have called on the Prime Minister to maintain its current timetable for reopening the economy. In a letter sent by Cities Restart, a business network aimed to ensuring the economic recovery of UK cities after the pandemic, the organisation urged the … [Read more...]

Plans to build an apartment scheme of 32 one- and two-bedroom homes in Hazel Grove has been approved by Stockport Council. Kirkland Developments proposed the development to repurpose the site of the former Woodman Inn pub on the A6 in Hazel Grove, which has been closed for over eight years. The … [Read more...]

Equalities Council students from the Trafford and Stockport Colleges are heading up a new register-to-vote campaign ahead of Greater Manchester's local and mayoral elections on 6th May. Students Esha Mumtaz, a health and social care student at the College’s Stockport campus, Michael Jarkowski … [Read more...]

UK NEWS & HEADLINES: UK STATISTICS Total UK Cases: 4,333,042 positive testsLatest UK daily figure: 3,862new casesNumber in UK hospital: 4,560 (296 fewer than previous day)New deaths across UK: 19Total UK deaths: 126,592England Cases per 100,000: 43 per 100,000 (daily change: 1 fewer)R … [Read more...]

Stockport Council has rejected plans for the 1 million sq ft Bredbury Gateway industrial estate proposed on a 76 acre Green Belt site along the River Tame. In an almost two-and-a-half hour debate on the proposals in a meeting of Stockport Council's Planning & Highways Regulation Committee, … [Read more...]