“With the recent educational focus on grammar schools, let us not forget that educationally success or failure can be determined much earlier than age 11.”

On Sunday 13th November 2016, William Wragg MP joined hundreds of members of the public, Cadets, vicars and members of the Armed Forces in Hazel Grove, Romiley & Bredbury and Mellor.

For October, residents in the Hazel Grove Constituency voted for Friends of Marple Memorial Park to be our Charity of the Month.

On Saturday 12th November, William awarded the Friends Group with a donation and certificate for a well recognised win.

On Saturday 5th November, William joined John Boothby in Sainsbury's, Hazel Grove to assist selling Poppy's as part of the Royal British Legion campaign.

William was invited by Marple Scouts and Guides to help light the bonfire at Brabyns Park on the 5th November.

Thank you to everyone who voted in the campaign to find William's, 'Charity of the Month' for October 2016.

Voting has just closed, the votes have been counted and Friends of Marple Memorial Park have been successful.

Civic Voice, the national charity for the civic movement, is looking for volunteers from across England to get involved in the First World War Memorials Programme.

The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework has the potential to threaten large areas of the Greenbelt surrounding many local communities. I am very concerned by this real prospect of thousands of properties being built on previously protected land.

Two Stockport MPs are  campaigning to protect local green belt land from housing developments proposed by the Combined Manchester Authority, and are calling on local residents for support.

William held his first Senior Citizens Fair on Friday 21st September 2016, at Marple Senior Citizens Hall.