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Trafford Town Hall TRAFFORD Council has spent over £65 million in ’emergency decisions’ made since the start of the Covid pandemic. Soon after the pandemic hit and the country went into lockdown in March 2020, the authority granted itself emergency powers in a move approved by all parties at a full council meeting last year. The aim was to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy that slowed decision making down, at a time when fast reactions and quick policy-making were essential. The powers were initially drawn into the council’s constitution to allow temporary emergency decision-making powers for a period of 12 months. The plan enabled important meetings and decisions to be made by the Labour administration behind closed doors, with regular calls made to the leaders of all other political parties to keep people informed and get their agreement.
GREATER Manchester residents are being invited to join free online fitness sessions for World Cancer Day. The sessions are being led by exercise specialists who deliver fitness, nutrition and wellbeing programmes to help cancer patients prepare for and recover from major surgery. The sessions are set to take place on Thursday, February 4. The instructors work for a transformational programme called Prehab4Cancer. They usually deliver help in local community leisure centres for people with cancer who are referred for support by the medical teams at the region’s hospitals. In response to lockdown restrictions, the Prehab4Cancer exercise specialists are offering their support online.
Exercise specialists from patient support programme offer free online activity sessions for World Cancer Day Date published: 02 February 2021
Some of the GM Active Prehab4Cancer exercise specialists. From left, Jack Murphy, Kirsty Rowlinson-Groves, Nathan Valentine (admin), Sarah-Jayne Hurst and Rob Mentha. (Pictured before the pandemic)
Greater Manchester residents, NHS, care and cancer support organisations, charities and businesses are invited to join free online fitness sessions for people of all abilities on World Cancer Day this Thursday, February 4.
The sessions are being led by exercise specialists who deliver fitness, nutrition and wellbeing programmes to help cancer patients prepare for and recover from major surgery.
Dan Whelan
Plans for a new-build facility in Stretford are “no longer financially viable” due to the pandemic, the council said, paving the way for a residential development at the former B&Q site on Great Stone Road.
The site was originally earmarked to deliver a new leisure centre for the borough.
Trafford Council said it has reviewed its leisure centre strategy amid “increasing cost pressures on the health and social care system, and the emergence of Covid-related financial pressures” on both the council and its leisure operator Trafford Leisure, and subsequently scrapped plans for new centres in Stretford and Altrincham.