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20 Most Recent Press Articles
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 3rd Mar 2010
Stockport's PCSOs are a welcome sight around the Borough, crime rates have fallen in the last year, and police partnership with the Council and other agencies is even beginning to sort out the mindless vandals that cause so much grief.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 2nd Dec 2009
A shocking 37,000 people died in England last winter because of high fuel costs and poorly heated homes. Despite a mild winter there were more deaths than for 10 years.
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Published in The House Magazine on Mon 9th Nov 2009
Our natural resources are running out. Climate change is threatening to destroy the very fabric of our planet. We need to rethink our future energy plans, and it is right that there should be a rigorous debate about how we are going to keep the lights on, and cut carbon at the same time. But nuclear is not the answer.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 28th Oct 2009
For most Stockport residents the financial melt-down started around a year ago. But for over a hundred and fifty local pensioners their financial melt-down started eight years earlier when the pension company Equitable Life went bust. Overnight their savings were worthless, and their retirement plans ruined.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 23rd Sep 2009
The pundits are starting to say the Recession is over. That's not how it feels to many Stockport families - especially those with young people at home seeking work, or struggling with a mountain of debt.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 19th Aug 2009
Stockport isn't in the same league as London as a world financial centre, but the impact of the banking melt-down hits us just as hard. Jobs are being lost, and homes repossessed in our town every week. Local businesses are starved of working capital, and the housing market has folded.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 15th Jul 2009
Stockport was hit by some of the most spectacular and torrential thunderstorms for a long time last week - leading to blocked roads, flooded cellars, and worse in many areas. Even my own garage took a hit. For some people in Romiley it was the third time their homes had been swamped in a year.
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Written by Andrew Stunell and published in Stockport Express on Wed 6th May 2009
Last week's vote in Parliament to insist that the Ghurkhas got treated fairly put a smile on nearly everyone's face. It was, of course, exactly the right decision - as Nick Clegg put it devastatingly in his question to the Prime Minister that day, if they have a right to die for our country they should have a right to live in it, too.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 1st Apr 2009
Over the years I have fought hard for some signs of commonsense from the Royal Mail and the Post Office as they closed down sub-post offices, and cut back on the services that those that remain could provide.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 18th Feb 2009
Overcrowded trains and frustrated commuters have been a big feature of my in-tray since new timetables on our local rail services started last December.
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Published on Tue 10th Feb 2009
Securing the future of the Post Office Network is a vital part of any strategy to give value to local communities, not only in rural areas but also in urban and suburban areas such as my constituency. I therefore very much welcome your inquiry, and hope that it can propose a wide range of practical steps to develop profitable trading through the Network that will find favour with the Government and Post Office very quickly.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 7th Jan 2009
There were many reasons why Stockport residents gave such a resounding thumbs down to the Congestion Charge. Perhaps the most important was that almost none of the schemes would do anything to cut congestion and pollution in the town itself.
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Published in Stockport Express on Thu 1st Jan 2009
Heart-felt Wishes for a Prosperous New Year. We've come through a turbulent year, with some 'highs', but too many 'lows' - wars and terrorism, financial melt-down, soaring fuel prices, and squeezed wallets. It is a good moment to take stock, and to resolve to change things for the better in 2009.
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Written by Andrew Stunell MP and published in Stockport Express on Wed 26th Nov 2008
Westminster is too far away for me to get many casual visitors calling from Stockport - though constituents are always welcome to come and see it at first hand.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 12th Nov 2008
Everyone in Stockport knows the credit bubble has burst - banks nationalised, home repossessions shooting up, and jobs lost as businesses shrink.
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Published in Stockport Express on Wed 12th Nov 2008
"I shall be voting against Congestion Charging and the TIF bid because the people I represent would get such a poor deal out of it. We would be paying in plenty, but not cutting congestion on the A6, not getting a tram link, not getting a rail link from Marple to Stockport, and not putting in the rest of the A555 by-pass. And some of the improvements boasted of will happen anyway - the extra railway carriages for overcrowded commuter services are already on order, according to the Government.
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Published in Stockport Express on Mon 4th Aug 2008
Rising gas and electricity bills, steep increases in basics like bread and rice, higher mortgage payments, and whacking fuel costs are hitting every household in Stockport.
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Published on Mon 7th Jul 2008
Oil prices have doubled in a year on the international markets. Gas is going up steeply, and even unfashionable coal costs three times what it did in 2002. Although it doesn't feel like it, consumers in Britain haven't had the worst of it yet. That's because it takes awhile for the wholesale price at international level to feed through to our household bills. But it certainly will do.
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Published on Mon 18th Jun 2007
There is much press talk about 'stealth taxes', but what about 'stealth spending'? There's a lot of it about, and I've been working in Westminster to get it stopped! Here are a couple of examples:-
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Published in New Local Government Network Essay Pamphlet: The Age of Regions - Rethinking Regional Governance on Thu 7th Jun 2007
They are just making it worse
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