This Wednesday (16th April) is International noise awareness day, an event organised by the league for the hard of hearing (www.lhh.org/noise) and supported by the Health and Safety Executive (www.hse.gov.uk/noise/) to raise awareness of issues around noise. The H.S.E. Advise that around 170,000 people across the UK suffer from deafness, tinnitus or other ear conditions […]
No games last weekend for either the first or reserve teams due to the weather. Coming up next for the first team on Wednesday (16th April) evening is a home match against bottom team in the league Poynton kick off 6.15pm, with this Saturday seeing the first team scheduled to play Witton Albion Reserves at […]
Next Monday (14th April) will see a meeting of the social inclusion select committee amongst the items for consideration will be a report back from a sub group of members who have been working with officers and others to analysis and review the current arrangements and performance on anti social behaviour. To that end a […]
As flagged up in a number of places I have to agree with the concerns been raised over the effect of last year abolition of the 10p tax rate which came into effect with the start of the new tax year. Whilst many of the changes to the tax system will have the desired effect, […]
Disappointing news for Glossop Town Hall, with details in a recent email from Dai Larner the Council’s Strategic Director for Planning and Regeneration that the hard work done to put a bid together by the council, High Peak CVS and the Glossop Volunteer Bureau to the Community Assets Fund to refurbish the Town Hall has […]
Last Wednesday (2nd April) saw the results of the big vote announced. The initiative which was flagged up on Glossop.com and various other places including here (in March) is the method used to elect the members of the Derbyshire Youth Council. As noted previously there were a total of 11 young people from across the […]
Saturday (5th April) saw Curzon Ashton take there revenge for Gamesley’s 2 – 0 defeat of the week before by beating them 4 – 0 at Gamesley’s Melandra Castle Road Ground on Saturday. Next week (12th April) see’s the first team play Linotype/Cheadle HN for the first time in the league, hopefully emulating there previous […]
Depending on which school you are at, next week will see the start of the Easter Holiday’s and as with previous school holidays there are a range of activities taking place across Glossopdale to spend the time off on. Full details of the events on Gamesley are available at : http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/leisure/pdfs/Easter_2008_Gamesley.pdf details on events across […]
Fears of a house building free-for-all in Glossopdale have been allayed after protests from Labour members of the Local Development Select Committee caused the council to object to proposals by the Government Office for the East Midlands to scrap the current block (moratorium) on any new housing allocations within the Glossopdale area except for affordable […]
Friday evening saw a trip to Whaley Bridge for the March constituency meeting of the High Peak Labour Party, which this month was also the AGM (annual general meeting). Some slight changes to executive officers, along with an interesting discussion on getting the various bits of the constituency working better together. Local members including Glossopdale […]