At a meeting of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority last month the Labour leader of Stockport Council, the other nine Labour council leaders and the elected mayor agreed to take away the requirement for each Council to individually vote to agree the controversial forthcoming Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF), which is expected to include proposals for considerable green belt development.

The Liberal Democrat Group on Stockport council welcomed the second Pride festival last weekend and had a very popular stall manned by several local councillors and activists.

Stockport Liberal Democrats have pledged to freeze parking charges in district centres if they regain control at the Town Hall following this summer’s elections.

Greater Manchester Police are facing a real-terms cut of £6.93m next year, the Liberal Democrats have revealed.

Liberal Democrats have outlined the six red lines that must be agreed to as part of any coalition negotiations in the next government.

The Liberal Democrats will use £2.5 million from a fine imposed on a bank for rigging the Libor rate to investment into the North West Air Ambulance service.

All primary school children will be entitled to free school meals, under Liberal Democrat manifesto plans announced today.  It will more than double the offer of free schools meals to all infant school pupils the Liberal Democrats delivered in Government.

Baroness Shirley Williams visited Cheadle constituency today to lend her backing to local Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Hunter.

Inscape House, a day school operated by Cheadle-based special educational needs and disabilities charity, The Together Trust, recently welcomed local parliamentary candidate, Mark Hunter, to unveil its innovative new 4D sensory room.

Inscape pupils were trying out the new sensory room