Caitlin Bisknell Listening to High Peak

Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for High Peak The choice in High Peak is clear

“The choice in next year’s general election could not be clearer” says Caitlin Bisknell, Labour’s parliamentary can- Credit Union didate for High Peak. It is a choice between a Labour party that fights for, and comes to High Peak cares about, ordinary working people, or a Tory par- ty intent on giving tax cuts to the rich while penalising hard-working families. Caitlin Bisknell has spent the last 18 months knocking on doors and talking to people about what concerns them, both locally and nationally. “I know from listening to local people that families are making really difficult decisions, balancing paying fuel bills and rents or mortgages, with buying food and school uniforms. “We should not be asking ordinary working families in High Peak, who are already striving to beat the cost-of- living crisis, to make an even bigger contribution. How can it be right to take £3bn away from ordinary families, while giving a £3bn tax break to the richest 1%? Following its success in Gamesley, the Manchester Credit Union is now extending its services to Glos- “Unlike the Tories, Labour has set out how it will fund sop, Hadfield, New Mills, Fairfield and Buxton – its pledges – and offered to get them independently thanks to funding from Labour-led High Peak Borough assessed by the Government’s own Office for Budget and County Councils. Responsibility.” Labour’s parliamentary candidate for High Peak, Labour will: Caitlin Bisknell, said: “Manchester Credit Union has • Put £2.5bn into the NHS to pay for nurses, GPs, care been a great success in Gamesley where it chased workers and midwives. payday lenders out of the area. I am delighted that the Credit Union will soon be operating across High • Cut taxes for 24 million working people on middle and Peak, offering a much-needed service to residents.” low incomes, with a lower 10p starting rate of tax. For more information about Manchester Credit Union, • Freeze energy bills till 2017. including venues and opening times, in High Peak • Provide 25 hours of free childcare every week for three check out: http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/hp/coun- and four-year-old children with working parents. cil-services/manchester-credit-union-in-high-peak/ opening-times • Reduce tuition fees by £3,000.

Caitlin Bisknell 124 Brown Edge Rd, Buxton, SK17 7AB tel: 01298 71368 email: [email protected]

Promoted by Andrew Uprichard, on behalf of High Peak Labour Party, both of 1 Alexandra Road, Buxton, SK17 9NQ Printed by Greatledge of Malaga House, Pink Bank Lane, Longsight, Manchester M12 5GH Labour – working hard for you in the High Peak all year round New £20m secondary school for Glossopdale Labour – investing in education & our future Labour’s parliamentary candidate Caitlin Bisknell has wel- While the new school is being built, all students will be Across High Peak, we have recently seen evidence that While Labour is investing in schools across High Peak, comed ambitious plans to build a new secondary school taught on the Talbot Road and Talbot House sites in Glos- Ofsted inspections are becoming politicised, with the aim the Tory-LibDem coalition spent a whopping £18m on for Glossopdale. sop. Once complete, the Talbot Road and Talbot House of pushing more and more schools down the academy one free school in London with just 17 pupils! sites will be sold for development, with cash from the sale route, often against the wishes of parents and staff. “This is solid proof that Labour is serious about education; In the past year, Labour Derbyshire County Council has helping to fund the new single-site school. it is recognition that students and teachers need a good In Derbyshire, Labour is investing money in helping provided nearly £1m funding for new classrooms in working environment. It is a sign of the importance that Building work is due to start in mid-2015 and is expected schools to improve performance through partnership Buxton, Hadfield and Gamesley, with a further £3.75m Labour places on investing in our young people and our to take two years. working with other schools, as is now happening at New spent on school repairs and invested in solar panels at future. Mills School. In neighbouring Chapel-en-le-Frith, Labour’s Hayfield Primary School. Caitlin is pictured with Glossopdale county councillors Caitlin Bisknell was one of the first to back the primary “I know that staff, governors, parents and students are de- Damien Greenhalgh, Dave Wilcox and Ellie Wilcox. school in its fight against forced academisation. lighted with the news – and have lobbied hard for a new school – “Over the past four years, parents, pupils and teachers and I am delighted that thanks to have come to realise the implications of Tory rule: larger Labour Derbyshire County Council, class sizes and lower teacher morale. their efforts have finally paid off.” “Only the Labour party wants parents to have Under the scheme, the Hadfield the choice which matters to them: a good local site will be demolished with a school, qualified teachers and a curriculum that new school, youth and community stretches the whole child.” centre being built on the News- haw Lane site. High Peak Rose Autumn 2014 Labour – working hard in the High Peak all year round Old Heritage Trail Claff, who steered the project through the Council said, Caitlin with councillor Garry Parvin by one of the new boards ‘This project will not only bring to life the history of Old Glossop, but also explore how all of Glossopdale devel- oped from very early times.’

Glossop Green Campaigners Green campaigners will be cheering over the next cou- ple of years as the waste recycling site at Melandra is set for a significant face lift. The site, located just off the A57 is still known by many locals as Glossop tip. Rebuilding of the highway access is already well Thanks to Glossop’s High Peak Labour councillors and underway. local residents, a wonderful new tourism development, In future the former privately owned road will be part of Labour’s 2011 manifesto promise, has now been repaired jointly by Derbyshire County Council and the installed in Old Glossop. The new Old Glossop Heritage landowner. Hopefully, the huge craters which have Trail was officially opened in June. characterised the highway will be a thing of the past. Over a dozen delightful boards take visitors round a short Caitlin Bisknell says that once built, the new site will family-oriented circuit, depicting the traces of the medie- make recycling much easier. Improved landscaping val rural village, the development in Tudor times and the will mean that people will no longer have to clamber explosion of cotton mills in the late-eighteenth century. up steps to dispose of unwanted items. A group of local residents, including the Labour Coun- “We want to ensure that those people who volunteer cillor, Garry Parvin, and Glossop Heritage Trust were to recycle their waste are encouraged to do so,” she centrally involved alongside a professional company said. engaged by the Council. Labour’s Councillor, Godfrey ! Yes! I support Labour Your local Labour Councillors o Please register my support for Labour. o I would like to help Labour. Godfrey Claff Garry Parvin Please contact me. Damien Greenhalgh Graham Oakley Pat Jenner Edward Siddall o I would like to join the Labour Party. Please send some information. Victoria Mann Colin Waude Anthony McKeown Dave Wilcox Name...... Bob McKeown Ellie Wilcox Address...... tel: 01298 71368 ...... email: [email protected] Tel No......

Email...... Please return to: Freepost RTJB-KRLA-JSHR, Caitlin Bisknell, The Labour Party, 10 Burlington Road, Buxton, SK17 9AL