Last Friday evening saw a trip to Whaley Bridge for this month constituencyLabour Party meeting, which was also the last of the year. As well as theusual items for discussion we also had two fairly short but interestingdiscussions on issues around the European elections next year and the recentconsultation exercise that Tom Levitt had on […]

I took an afternoon off work yesterday (Monday) to take part in a wardwalkabout with the still fairly new chief executive of the Borough CouncilSimon Baker. The walkabouts are an idea started by Simon so he can get apicture of the various issues that are occurring across the area. Yesterday's walkabout covered the whole of […]

The first teams run of bad form continued last Saturday (28th November) witha one nil defeat away to Knutsford, the reserves however were prevented fromseeing if there losing form from the week before had finished due to theregame been postponed. This Saturday (6th December) will see the first team away again in an almostlocal Derby […]

This coming Friday (5th December) from 3.30pm sees the St Margaret's SchoolChristmas Fair, all the usual fair type activities with the proceeds goingtowards the school. For further information please contact the school on 01457 855818.

Last Wednesday saw the annual general meeting of High Peak Community Housingalong with the normal board meeting, as I expected the current chair AgnesBradley was re-elected as chair, but there was no decision on electing avice chair with a decision been deferred until the next meeting in January. It was the first time I had […]

Rumours I'm not sure from where, are apparently circulating of plans todemolish the shops at Winster Mews. Rumours which after a quick double check with officers at both the Counciland High Peak Community Housing I can confirm are no more than that, withthere been no plans from either body at this time for anything like […]

Apologies to anyone who tried attending the public meeting for TamesideHospital that was scheduled to take place last night (Monday), but due tothe unavailability of a number of the speakers the meeting had to bepostponed until some time in the New Year. Further details on the hospital are available fromhttp://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/ and as the hospital is […]

First off a correction from last week, because the reserves did in fact havea game, which was a 2nd round tie in the Junior Derbyshire Cup which sawthem beating Baslow 7 – 2, as opposed to last Saturdays (22nd November)first team Derbyshire Cup tie which saw them losing 5 – 3 away to SwanwickPentrich Road. […]

It's good to hear news from Tom Levitt MP that talks are underway to look atestablishing a credit union for the High Peak. Efforts were tried a numberof years ago (during the time of Fr Michael Moore at St Margaret's) toestablish one on Gamesley, but at that time we weren't a large enough areato sustain […]

With reference to last weeks post on the Africa Day Event, a number of shortvideo clips of the African Drumming Demonstration including Tom Levitt MPand County Cllr Dave Wilcox dancing to the beat are now available athttp//www.youtube.com/anthonymck