By Charlotte Green, Local democracy reporter COUNCILLORS have become embroiled in a row over Tameside’s leisure trust after a Tory member claimed it was a…
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Author: Tony Bugby
BBC cameras visit Great Academy Ashton
THE BBC cameras and education editor Branwen Jeffreys visited Great Academy Ashton They were filming for a national news feature regarding education secretary Gavin Williamson’s…
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Fans to fund Paddy’s operation
GENEROUS football fans have splashed out more than £4,500 to pay for ex-Stalybridge Celtic player Paddy Lacey to have surgery. The 27-year-old midfielder, who left…
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Farewell to distinguished firefighters
TWO retired and respected local firefighters, who helped tackle what was described as one of the largest-ever blazes in the North West, have died. Sub-officer…
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Have your say in rail consultation
THE Friends of Mossley Station and Stalybridge-Huddersfield Rail User Group (SHRUG) are urging passengers to have a say in a public consultation about their services.…
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Warm welcome at Micklehurst for new deputy head
By new deputy headteacher, Sarah Jarman THIS school year has been an unusual one for us all and as the new deputy headteacher at Micklehurst…
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Residents oppose plan for Tame Valley Park
RESIDENTS have likened it to David tackling Goliath as they oppose the developer who is battling to build 162 new homes and create a new…
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More eligible for business grant funding
CHANGES to the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme, mean that domestic businesses and those who hold a Tameside taxi licence may now be eligible for…
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End in sight for mother’s damp house nightmare
A MOTHER’S nightmare of raising her four children in a house riddled with damp is hopefully at an end. After a two-and-a-half-year battle, Natasha Robinson,…
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Godley Green Garden Village: Why won’t they listen to us?
CLAIRE Elliott, founder of Save Tameside Greenbelt, has accused Tameside Council of riding roughshod over residents over the proposed Godley Green development. “Why haven’t they…
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