Special reports

Getting the trams back on track

PLANS to extend the Metrolink tram network to Stockport were shelved by the Government, prompting anger in the town. The fight began to try and make ministers change their minds and get the trams back on track. Here's how the campaign took shape ...

 

Stockport Air Disaster

PERHAPS Stockport's darkest day - we look back to Sunday June 4 1967, when a passenger aircraft crashed onto the town, leaving 72 people dead.

Click below for pictures, dramatic stories and video reports ...

Battling the bulge

JOIN Miles Skinner as he attempts to shed the stones and stub out the cigarettes for good... will he succeed?