An influential heritage group, the Victorian Society, fears Stockport Viaduct, a major feat of British engineering and a ...

The final stage of a £1m revamp of a Grade II listed viaduct will take place next month. Built in 1840, the Stockport Viaduct ...

Network Rail began a project to revitalise the Grade II listed structure, built in 1840, with 11 million bricks.

A woman whose house was flooded during the New Year downpour has called for council tax to be waived if blocked street drains ...

Last year, Network Rail started the project to remove overgrowing vegetation, clean away graffiti and carry out extensive ...

The River Mersey, reaching its highest levels in 66 ... In total, 469 people from Didsbury and also Stockport, were rescued from flooded properties and offered alternative accommodation.

The River Mersey is the lifeblood of Liverpool, shaping not just the waterfront contours but the very soul of the city. It stretches for 70 miles from Stockport to Liverpool Bay and for centuries ...

Hundreds of people have been forced to leave their homes after heavy rain and floods battered large parts of north-west England, leaving cars abandoned and cancelling trains.

Stockport Council said the downpour was "unprecedented ... Baynham said the New Year's Day flood saw the River Mersey reach the "highest level ever recorded", adding climate change meant once ...

Stockport and Wigan. The Environment Agency has said that part of the River Mersey's embankment, which forms as part of the area's flood defence, had collapsed. Officers remained at the site on ...

It would see over £250m invested in the town and is at the heart of the MDC's £1b vision for Stockport town centre. Separately, Weir Mill, on the banks of the River Mersey in the town centre, is ...