In a stark message, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has warned that budget cuts could see even fewer policemen and women on our streets and officer numbers reduced to the lowest levels since the 1970's. Cheadle residents, already concerned about the increase in crime levels locally, will be alarmed that official figures show a 17% increase in recorded crime over the last twelve months.

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

Record employment figures prove the country is now the engine driver of the European economic recovery.  In Cheadle constituency the unemployment rate is just 1.4%, one of the lowest figures in the North West.  

Public sector workers in Cheadle constituency deserve to feel the benefits of the economic recovery by receiving pay increases by at least the rate of inflation, Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Hunter has said.