Hattersley and Mottram Community Media

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of the latest edition.

To ensure a small file size for downloading, the images
in the Community News are of a low resolution
so may appear pixelated.

Read the March edition of the Community News to find
out what's going on in Hattersley. Read about the new
Ken Ward Sports Centre, which is due to open in May,
find out how some of HMCM's volunteers enjoyed their
unusually late Christmas outing. Read all about Hattersley's
snow heroes Debbie Joy and Michelle Depass. Get all the
lastest news from Hattersley's sports scene and find out
about the end of an era for some residents with the closing
of the New Inn public house.

To find out more about any story featured in the Community
News give us a call on 0161 368 5171.

February 2010 - The Competition entry

February saw another fantastic entry for our competition of where’s the furthest or most unusual place you’ve seen the Community News being read sent in by Sam MacKenzie.

December 2009
The digital TV switchover Response Team, set up by Hattersley & Mottram Community Media (HMCM), made over 400 visits to the homes of older residents all over Tameside to offer support with the retuning of their TV and digital TV equipment following the two phases of the digital TV switchover in November and December 2009.

December 2009
If Christmas is for children we wanted to make this Christmas a very special one for three Hattersley children. Hattersley Forum Community Association, who organised this years Christmas lights switch on supported by Hattersley & Mottram Community Media (HMCM), contacted the estates primary schools and asked the head teachers to nominate a youngster from their school, who they felt had done particularly well in the past year or had overcome some obstacle, to turn the lights on.

November 2009 - The Competition entry

November saw a fantastic entry come in for our competition of where’s the furthest or most unusual place you’ve seen the Community News is being. This picture from Steve Haycock, of fishing buddy Paul Cobb reading his Community News with a lion in South Africa might not make it as the furthest the newspaper is being read but sharing a read with a lion, even a youngster, has got to be unusual by anyone’s standards, but what do you think?

I had a dream I saw your face,
it was in a dark and distant place,
a place i knew from once before,
a place i'd hidden behind a door.

Locked up tight for nobody to see,
locked in a box only opened by me,
held closed by a lock made with hopes and dreams,
kept closed so nobody can hear the screams.

Not wanting to remember, not wanting to share,
hoping the lock holds so you'll all stay in there,
striving for more and not being beat,
these are the things that've kept me on my feet.

A happy smile to show life is good,
though you cut me deep you drew no blood,

There's the poetry vault but I just can't get a gig.
I'm not bothered so I wont have a dig.
There's the poetry vault but I can't get on stage.
I say 'whatever' I don't feel no rage.

There's the poetry vault but my curtains come down.
I say 'whatever' I wont wear no frown.
There's the poetry vault no room at the inn?
all of -my poems- get thrown in the bin

There's the poetry vault, for me its a crypt
All of -my poems- get shredded and ripped
There's the poetry vault, that baby was mine.
I couldn't care less, in-fact I feel fine.

By Dessy Stuart
Whatever © Dessy Stuart

Did you know that if you meet their criteria you could have a room in your home decorated, once every two years, free of charge?

Click the 'read more' link below and you will find an attachment named Decorating, click this to download Peak Valley Housing Associations concessionary gardening application form.

When you have downloaded it you can print it off to complete it. Once you have completed it take it along to Peak Valley's offices on Hattersley Road East.

May 2008

Watch this video to learn how to create an account on HMCM's website.

Please leave a comment and let us know how you got on with this 'How to' video or how we can improve future 'How to' video.

We will be adding more video's to the site so keep a look at for future offerings in the 'See the Videos' section of the site on the right hand side under the 'How To' menu in expanded list.