Anthony

Good luck to the staff, parents and children of St Margaret’s School who have the OFSTED inspectors in this week.

Next Tuesday will see a meeting of the North Area Tenants Panel take place at Bredbury House in Glossop. The meeting will discuss a wide range of issues to do with High Peak Community Housing, and gives ‘Council tenants’ a good opportunity to have a say on forthcoming plans etc. As always with this meeting […]

Brown in Manchester Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. Last Wednesday at New Century Hall next to the HQ of the Co-operative in Manchester, Gordon Brown was ‘in conversation’ with Oona King. The format was a Q&A; session hosted by Oona King that started off with a few general questions on Gordon’s background and a few of […]

As part of a response to the impending ban on smoking in public places, a number of local pubs are either in the process of planning ‘facilities’ such as a smoking shelter’s or have already built or put in for planning permission to get them built. As far as I know the Centurion on the […]

Friday 4th May saw a meeting of the Gamesley and Charlesworth safer neighbourhood team. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend due to been at the local elections count. However a number of local residents were and they received updates from the local beat team on a number of issue’s including the lend a cam scheme, […]

On a bad day locally for us, I was successfully elected for a 3 time to represent Gamesley on High Peak Borough Council. A big thank you to those of you that voted for me on Gamesley, and also to those of you elsewhere that voted Labour, particular in Hadfield South where my dad Bob […]

Last Saturday saw the first councillor’s surgery of the ‘new term’, which included Tom Levitt MP. A whole range of issues were raised included the issue over the low floor buses. Future surgery dates at the moment : Saturday 9th June – 11.00am until 12.00noonSaturday 14th July – 11.30am until 12.30 (with Tom Levitt MP) […]

A number of local residents have contacted me with regards to comments by some of the bus drivers that the low floor buses currently in use on most of the bus services round the estate are been withdrawn. After checking with the bus company Speedwell, the concerns are correct and due to costs issues low […]

Anthony and David Miliband Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. As part of the Kinder Trespass celebrations that took place on Saturday 21st April, just before the local elections, we were able to ‘borrow’ David Miliband from his part in the celebration events in New Mills to attend to a number of events in both Buxton and […]

Glossop Branch and Hilary Benn Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. Friday 4th May saw a visit to Glossop Labour Club by Hilary Benn MP one of the candidates in the race for the Deputy Leadership. The visit had been organised by Tom Levitt MP, Hilary’s PPS (Parliamentary Private Secretary) to give local members and others a […]