I grew up in a suburb of Stockport and when I was younger, Stockport town centre was, to put it politely, ‘angin. It could have been described using a lot of words beginning with f and s, but ‘fashionable’ and ‘sought-after’ weren’t among them. However, this is no longer true. The wider transformation of Greater

Andy Burnham is talking up his legacy in Manchester - but how much is the success down to him? And do people in Makerfield feel the benefit?

I grew up in a suburb of Stockport and when I was younger, Stockport town centre was, to put it politely, ‘angin. It could have been described using a lot of words beginning with…