‘Grey belt is a misnomer’: Stockport divided on Labour’s housing plans
‘We’re proud of them all’: Euros final has special meaning in home towns of Foden, Palmer and Mainoo
May 2024
Woman found guilty of killing nine-month-old girl at Stockport nursery
Patients evacuated and scans cancelled after Stockport hospital ceilings fall in
March 2024
Why are Tories making an issue of Angela Rayner selling her council house?
Lord Ashcroft has raised questions, which Labour dismisses as ‘smears’, about whether Labour’s deputy leader was liable for capital gains tax
November 2023
UK Biobank and the masses of medical data that became key to genetic research
The resource, which is on the move to Manchester, now ranks as the world’s most important health database
September 2023
Several UK theatres close due to concerns over crumbling concrete
Cultural institutions join dozens of schools forced to shut down over use of Raac
July 2023
Tough times have created nostalgia for 1980s and 1990s Britain, says TV writer
Creator of new BBC show The Power of Parker says young audiences are drawn to the idea of ‘a simpler time’
May 2023
Street spirit: why this Guardian writer helped put on a coronation party
Our event in Stockport – a Coronation Street party – was a welcome chance to bring the community together
April 2023
Sewage-soaked field stops creation of new woodland in Greater Manchester
Plans to create green space cancelled because soil contamination levels pose risk to human health
August 2022
Master of all trades: retrofit firm tackles climate and cost of living crises
B4Box in Stockport says by training workers in multiple skills it can build a better future and provide jobs
April 2022
Dirty air affects 97% of UK homes, data shows
Slough, London and Leeds among worst locations on map showing air pollution above WHO limits
February 2022
Brief letters
Craving peace in a lifetime of conflict
Brief letters: Life during wartime | Dogs and votes | Rotten realm | English town songs | MiniDiscs
August 2021
From the Guardian archive
A gold rush in the rag-and-bone trade – archive, 1954
5 August 1954: New blood has come into the trade since the war, with some said to make as much as £25 a day collecting rags and old woollens
May 2021
Staff at UK GP surgeries facing abuse and ‘tsunami of demand’
Graham Pink obituary
March 2021
Stockport man who murdered wife after row over chips jailed for life
Thomas McCann sentenced after killing in which he dumped dismembered body in country park
February 2021
Brexit: as half its sales are wiped out, silk firm joins exodus to Europe
Fashion company boss says only way for many firms to survive as costs soar is to open bases in France, costing vital UK jobs
January 2021
Bra stalls and cow's udder: the long-lost world of Stockport market – in pictures
Heidi Alexander’s images of Greater Manchester traders had been sitting in storage since she took them in 1977 … now they’re bringing a community back together
December 2020
Boy, 15, seriously injured in collision with police vehicle in Stockport
IOPC investigating incident on Boxing Day evening that left teenager in critical condition in hospital
