Preparing The Way For A New Era Of Enhanced Service Delivery At Stockport Council
White Papers Stockport is a metropolitan council that serves 300,000 members of the community. Along with many other local authorities, Stockport has been under constant pressure to ensure that its limited budgets are invested in providing discernible...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
News Burst: Orange Facing Court Action Over Mobile Masts
News Mobile phone network operator Orange is being taken to court by Stockport Council in an attempt to make it remove two mobile masts from schools in Manchester. The council has to act in the interests of its residents, particularly in relation to...
[February 1, 2001, 9:30]
Orange Backs Down Over Mobile Phone Mast
News Orange has backed down in its fight against Stockport Council and agreed to remove a mobile phone mast from the roof of a school by this summer. The victory -- effectively an out-of-court settlement -- means that Stockport is the first council in...
[May 10, 2001, 16:48]
Orange Heads To Court Over Mobile Masts
News The legal action is being brought by Stockport Council, which insists that parents, school governors and local residents want the masts removed because of concerns over health effects. Stockport Council has announced that they intend to issue an...
[February 2, 2001, 14:06]
Council To Take Mobile Phone Firms To Court
News Similar legal action is currently being brought by Stockport Council. Orange did agree to take down a mast from another school in Stockport, after finding a suitable alternative in the borough. West Lothian council is calling on other Scottish...
[May 16, 2001, 14:02]
Stockport Schools Take Open-source Route
News The systems in Stockport are run by Liverpool Direct, which is a joint venture, 80.1 percent owned by BT and 19.9 percent owned by Liverpool City Council. The Stockport system gives 30,000 pupils across the town a wide range of services including...
[March 23, 2007, 16:00]
More Tests For School Mobile Masts
News Last year Kent County Council decided not to allow any new masts to be built on its land, and Stockport Council recently managed to force Orange to remove a mast from a local school. Mobile phone masts sited on or near schools will continue to be...
[March 4, 2002, 12:55]
Full Marks For School Mobile Phone Masts
News Masts located on schools are particularly unpopular -- Stockport Council recently threatened Orange with legal action if it didn't remove a mast from one local college. Keith Ferrin, deputy council leader of Kent County Council -- which voted last...
[January 4, 2002, 13:19]
IT Implicated In Voting-forms Delay
News Areas hit hardest by the delays are Stockport, Bradford, Gateshead and other parts of Tyneside. In Stockport all 220,000 ballot packs were reprinted as machines were unable to handle the volume of work.
[June 1, 2004, 12:25]
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council: Healthy Meals In Schools Initiative
White Papers This was a collaborative procurement between several Local Area Procurement Partnership (LAPP) members, which included: Bury; Bolton; Oldham; Salford; Tameside; Stockport; Trafford; Warrington; Greater Manchester Police; and Greater Manchester...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Attacked Over Mobile Mast Rules
News Stockport County Council was forced to threaten Orange with legal action in order to get it to remove a mast from a local school. Kent County Council hit the headlines at the start of this year by announcing that it would not allow masts to be...
[August 24, 2001, 13:35]
Immediate Ban Stops Laptops Leaving Whitehall
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[January 23, 2008, 7:52]
BlackBerrys Grounded By Whitehall Data Ban
News The government has suffered a catalogue of embarrassing security breaches, which includes the NHS losing hundreds of thousands of patients' records, the DVLA losing three million learner drivers' details and the loss of more than 4,000 patient...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
