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Much of Marple's 23,000 population considers the area to be a town in its own right rather than part of Stockport. With canal towpaths and ready access to the surrounding hills it is at the more rural end of the borough. As well as Marple Hall High School the area also has Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form and College for further education. There is also a cinema, one of Stockport's better-used shopping precincts and a large number of restaurants.

Junior club linked with Manchester City fined after female referee abused

Platt Lane City were investigated by the Football Association following an under-10s clash with a Liverpool team which caused the 15-year-old official to leave the field in floods of tears.

Rottweiler attacks boy, six, in Stockport playing fields

Little William Davies was watching his dad play football when he was bitten by the animal, which was on a lead but not muzzled

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Chance to help save Greater Manchester's Grade II listed structures

English Heritage are asking for volunteers to carry out their own surveys of the 3,500 Grade II listed structures across Greater Manchester  to see which are most in need of saving.

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Stockport schoolboy savaged by dog in playground - and owner walks away without helping

The dog sank its teeth into seven-year-old Otis Hewett’s legs at a Stockport park  leaving two puncture wounds on his inner thighs

Library hours are slashed in new cuts to save £160k

Opening times across Stockport's 15 libraries will be reduced by a total of 83.5 hours in a bid to save £160,000. It will mean the council will need fewer staff and it is hoped this will be achieved through voluntary redundancies.

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Stockport drink-driver spared ban – because she only moved car 55 yards

Janice Wright was two-and-a-half times the limit when she moved her white BMW from outside her ex-husband Gary Wright’s home on a cul-de-sac in Stockport.

Mammoth 800-mile trip in a tractor

Mike Fishwick, 67, clocked up more than 800 miles on the mammoth trek between John O’Groats and Land’s End.

Heroic passer-by climbs into blazing house and rescues disabled man in Marple

The 44-year-old was walking along Waterside, in Marple, on Sunday evening (September 8) when heard the smoke alarm sounding from a ground floor flat

Pensioner, 82, lay on floor for hours despite string of 999 calls

Grandad Harold Dowers was forced to stay on the floor of the Marple Lodge care home in Stockport as care home staff, who are not medically trained, followed protocol not to move residents who have fallen

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Stockport eviction battle as travellers camp on college fields

About 20 caravans have moved on to the Cheadle Road campus of Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College.

Eamonn O'Neal: Comedians of yesteryear still cut it in modern age

Eamonn O'Neal gives his thoughts on comedians, T shirt printing and mountain bikes

Manager hits back in Under 10s football row that left a teenage referee in tears

Barry Macklin, of Platt Lane City, denied that parents of his side had verbally abused the ­15-year-old official during their abandoned match with Liverpool’s Litherland Tigers.

A Level Results: Marple Sixth Form College

We will be publishing results from sixth form colleges and schools across the region

Driver rescued from stricken vehicle in Romiley and airlifted to hospital

The 50-year-old was travelling along Otterspool Road, Romiley, on Thursday evening (August 15) when his Citroen left the road, ploughed through a hedge and ended up in a ditch

Helen Gee, with Magic, who she rescued from a swimming pool

Neigh-watch: Life-saving mum who jumped into swimming pool to rescue drowning horse

Helen Gee, 31, saved the life of Magic, a four-year-old bay horse, on Sunday after he had wandered on top of a tarpaulin lying over the 6ft-deep pool before stumbling in.

Rescued, the horse that fell into a swimming pool

Magic, a four-year-old black horse, had wandered on to a tarpaulin covering the 6ft deep pool and fallen through it at a farm near Marple.

Mike Fishwick takes the 60-year-old tractor for a ride on Station Road, Hadfield.

Classic motor fan plans 1,000-mile trip in vintage tractor

Mike Fishwick, 66,  from Marple, will set off from Orkney  on August 12 and spend two weeks driving the open-top vehicle to the country’s most southerly point at Land’s End.

Grand Central Pools in Stockport

Parents’ fury as council to film swimmers at leisure centres

The CCTV – at Grand Central in the town centre, Romiley, Hazel Grove, Cheadle, Marple and Avondale, in Cheadle Heath – is not yet working

Join Sir Bradley Wiggins on his return

Tour de France champ Sir Bradley Wiggins invites cyclists for ride

Marple avoid a third straight defeat from a high-scoring meeting

Marple might have avoided a third consecutive defeat.

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