Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
BRITISH Airways can no longer claim to be the country's national carrier after scrapping its last direct international flight from Manchester, MP Graham Stringer has claimed.
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
... Kelly- said they would vote in favour of the government-backed plans, David Crausby, Jim Dobbin, Graham Stringer, Andrew Gwynne and Barbara Keeley all said they would reject them.There were also split opinions among Liberal Democrats. Stockport MPs Mark Hunter and Andrew Stunell are against the plans but Withington's John Leech and Paul Rowen, MP for Rochdale, are supporters.Graham...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... environment, less congestion and 10,000 new jobs. From the 'no' camp, Manchester Blackley MP Graham Stringer warned the charge would be a 'millstone around the economy's neck' that would take 'a third of a century' to repay. And Susan Williams, leader of Trafford council, described it as an 'absolutely horrendous and grossly unfair' tax that would hit low-paid people the hardest....
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
ChargeThe voting slip itself will contain a 'preamble' mentioning both the charge and the money that would be spent on trams, trains and buses if it goes ahead.The question itself, printed below, will simply ask: "Do you agree with the proposals?"Manchester Blackley MP Graham Stringer and others have claimed the question should have directly mentioned the charge, as a central part of...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
PRESENT and past leaders of Manchester council - Sir Richard Leese and Graham Stringer MP - will go head-to-head in the M.E.N's congestion charge debate.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... police vehicles in Manchester to 27 in six years - the second-highest in Britain.Blackley MP Graham Stringer has now called for a probe into the force's driving standards. More... 'If Greater Manchester's figures are significantly higher than anywhere else,' said Mr Stringer, 'then there needs to be an investigation into that.'The purpose of having a helicopter is to reduce...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... must be safety."Concerned national road safety charities today echoed the call from Blackley MP Graham Stringer for Greater Manchester Police to look again at its police driving policies.ConcernsDays after the end of National Road Safety Week, anti-speed campaigners Brake said the latest deaths should act as a `wake-up call' for Greater Manchester Police and described the figure of...
Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
... ‘invalid carriages’ – were becoming ‘increasingly common’ and the dangers were mounting. Labour MP Graham Stringer, a senior committee member, said: ‘There’s sufficient evidence that these things can be seriously dangerous both to users and pedestrians. Under these proposals, users would have to pass some sort of threshold to show they were not a danger.’ The demand comes after The...
tenthofjune (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... to get the service at Clifton improved. I have also contacted three other MPs in the last week: Graham Stringer, Graham Brady and my own MP, Ruth Kelly. So far, only Graham Brady’s secretary has sent an acknowledgement, and given Ruth Kelly’s lack of response in the past , I don’t hold out much hope. I will keep this post updated. Related posts: Bolton Council Betrays...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
... business Hydes Brewery. At the campaign launch at the city centre brewery, Labour MP for Blackley Graham Stringer described the congestion charge as "insane"."I think the proposals will be extremely bad for the Manchester economy, particularly at a time when people are losing their jobs and the economy is shrinking. "I think it is insane having a tax that only Manchester people have...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
| STRINGER Crazy proposalsMPs in drive to stop road tolls Dean Kirby 24/10/2008A CROSS-PARTY group of seven MPs and two council leaders have joined forces to campaign for a `no' vote in Greater Manchester's transport referendum.They have set up a `Stop the Charge' alliance, along with more than 250 businesses, to fight against the Transport Innovation Fund bid - which would include a peak-hour,...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
| | BROWN QuestionedBrown quizzed on congestion chargeIan Wylie GORDON Brown was urged to scrap Greater Manchester's controversial congestion charge scheme during Prime Minister questions.Blackley MP Graham Stringer, a former city council leader, protested about the wording of the question in a referendum on the pay-as-you-go scheme.People will simply be asked in the poll whether they...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... The PM replies by saying that this is a serious manner and should be investigated. 12.27pm: Graham Stringer invites the PM to cancel plans for a congestion charge for Greater Manchester and simply bring forward investment in the tram system. The PM doesn't answer the question. 12.21pm: John Whittingdale invites the Prime Minister to reinstate Empty Property Relief. 12.19pm: Nick Clegg...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
... were 49,441 claimants in September compared to 39,642 in December 2007 and 43,040 in May 2008.Graham Stringer, MP for Manchester Blackley, said: "The replacement of traditional industrial jobs in Wigan, Bolton, Rochdale and the like has been less successful than it has been in Manchester."Replacing those jobs with jobs in finance, the media and the wider `knowledge economy' has been...
Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... congestion charging is both worrying and wrong. A cross-party statement has been released by MPs Graham Brady (Conservative, Altrincham & Sale West) Graham Stringer (Labour, Manchester Central) and Andrew Stunnell (Liberal Democrat, Hazel Grove) and I agree with it entirely: We are concerned the referendum question itself will not make the direct link between transport proposals...
