Stacey Solomon has jokingly shared her 'regret' following a rare night out with her friends. The mum-of-five let her hair down over the weekend as she celebrated her sister Jemma's birthday during a boozy brunch.
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“It’s gone down the pan... drastically,” Thomas Beech says. He's sat nursing a can of Pepsi outside Woodley Precinct’s Startpoint Cafe.
“In the past 15 to 20 years this place has gone right down the pan, especially Mill Lane estate. It’s not what it used to be at all. It’s a no-go area sometimes - that’s not exaggerating.
“If you said you came from Woodley, people used to think you were posh. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore. I suppose it’s the same with a lot of places.”
The 60-year-old has lived on Woodley’s Mill Lane estate for 30 years. He despairs as he describes the decline he has seen over the past couple of decades.
“Some kids are feral,” he adds. “I have seen kids roaming the streets at 3am. That’s something that’s not uncommon.
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“There’s a lot of drugs on the estate now. It’s hard drugs as well. That was unthinkable at one time. I think it’s beyond repair, there’s nothing you can do.”
The Bredbury and Woodley ward has become a key election battleground in Stockport, with Labour pushing hard to break the Lib Dems' political stranglehold on the area.
This year sees the council's first ‘all out elections’ since 2004 - meaning all 63 seats are up for grabs rather than the usual one third.
The result here could play a big role in deciding who runs the town hall come May.
The authority is part of the Safer Stockport Partnership - aimed at reducing crime, substance misuse and anti-social behaviour - and also has a presence on the Greater Manchester Police Fire and Crime Panel. Despite his dissatisfaction with an area he describes as having ‘gone to rack and ruin’, Thomas says he won’t be changing his voting habits this time around.
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Stacey Solomon has jokingly shared her 'regret' following a rare night out with her friends. The mum-of-five let her hair down over the weekend as she celebrated her sister Jemma's birthday during a boozy brunch.
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