Brenda Warrington: Last News

There were hugs, cheers and tears as Labour rode a wave of success in Tameside’s all-out election that turned last year’s turbulence into a distant memory.

Tameside council’s ruling group has undergone a reshuffle ahead of its new leader being confirmed next week. Following the last minute resignation of Brenda Warrington from the role of the leader of the Labour group, there has now been a shake-up of cabinet positions which has seen several of her key allies ditched.

Tameside’s first female council leader – who resigned at the eleventh hour amid what she described as a ‘hostile’ leadership challenge – has said they must now put their differences aside.

The battle for control raging inside Tameside Labour has taken a dramatic twist with council leader Brenda Warrington accusing her would-be successor of a ‘hostile challenge’ that has created a ‘huge division’ in the group. In a defiant new statement Coun Warrington has warned Coun Ged Cooney, claiming she will not be ‘bullied, harassed or intimidated’ into standing down from the position she has held since 2018.

Tameside council’s first female leader faces being ousted as discontent among the ruling Labour group builds ahead of next month’s local elections. Councillor Brenda Warrington is to be challenged for the top job by current housing boss Coun Ged Cooney - who has warned her ‘change is coming’.

There are 53 candidates standing in Tameside’s local elections next month when one seat will be up for grabs in each of the borough’s 19 wards. The council is currently dominated by Labour, who hold 51 of its 57 seats, with the remainder taken by the five-strong Conservative group and a lone Green.

Councillors have agreed to go out to market to bring the former Hyde Library building ‘back to life’ as they revealed the cause of a recent fire at the historic site.

The leader of a council which has been granted nearly £20m in government levelling up funding told a meeting that ‘levelling up is a lie’.

Councillors have approved a 2.99 per cent tax increase that will start hiking bills from the end of next month.

A council leader said “I will be on that bulldozer” to build a controversial garden village – and “will ram it down your throat”.

A masterplan for a Tameside neighbourhood which could create nearly 2,000 new jobs has been unveiled.

Plans for the controversial Godley Green garden village which would see more than 2,000 homes built in the countryside have been submitted.

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direct to your inboxThe Greater Manchester Pension Fund has been criticised for its ‘woeful’ response to calls to divest from fossil fuel firms and align itself with local climate change policies.GMPF, the largest local government pension scheme in the UK, invests more than £1bn in oil and gas stocks each year, a strategy which has proven controversial amongst environmental campaigners.However the fund says it is also the largest investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency with £500m tied up in the industry, including large stakes in biomass.Councillor Brenda Warrington, leader of Tameside council and chair of the GMPF, insists that it will continue to encourage companies to become carbon neutral instead of withdrawing

direct to your inboxMore than 14,000 people in Tameside have received the Covid-19 jab as the borough pushes ‘ahead of the curve’ and bosses now want to see teachers immunised to ‘stop the damage’ to young people.By the end of Friday a huge 16,000 residents of Tameside and Glossop will have received the first dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.And a further 2,000 have already received their second dose which should guarantee up to 95pc immunity from the virus.However health chiefs say they are ‘frustrated’ that they cannot currently vaccinate teaching staff as part of the programme timetable for priority groups.Council leader Brenda Warrington told a meeting of the full council on Tuesday night that the

Hyde has become Tameside’s biggest Covid-19 hotspot as the rise in the infection rate pushes the borough back into the ‘red’ zone.According to the government, in the week to September 3 there were 121 new cases of coronavirus.September 2 saw 31 cases confirmed in the borough – the highest single day spike recorded by health chiefs since the peak of the pandemic in May.Council leader Brenda Warrington said it was ‘of concern’ that the number of infections continues to rise.A heat map of the country shows that cases are cropping up all across Tameside, in contrast to the neighbouring borough of Stockport which is broadly seeing low incidences of the virus.The rate of infection for Tameside has increased to 55.6 cases per 100,000 people and is

A new homeless shelter named after a pub landlady who has worked ‘tirelessly’ to support rough sleepers in Tameside has officially opened.The Town House has been set up in a former St Ann’s Primary School building in Ashton-under-Lyne, and is designed to provide ‘wrap around care’ to homeless and vulnerable people.Council leader Brenda Warrington described the Town House as ‘so much more than an overnight hostel’.“It is a community facility offering tailored support, guidance, care, clothing and food to vulnerable people who find themselves in crisis,” she said.“It is not just a sticking plaster or a temporary solution to supporting someone – it is there to address issues and find sustainable solutions for the long term so people don’t go

Libraries and museums have been closed in Tameside for the foreseeable future as the coronavirus crisis intensifies. 

The chair of the UK's largest local government pension scheme has defended its climate credentials, saying she is 'tired of all the constant attacks from environmental warriors'.