Here’s the text of my letter to the Operations Director at Stagecoach Merseyside about the ‘review’ of their service through Barrow nook and up Hall Lane past Stockley Crescent.   Usual anonymity courtesy for web publication, and self explanatory:
Dear xxxx
319 Service
I spoke yesterday with xxxxx, your Operations Manager, about the 319 service between St Helens and [...]

Councillor Pat Carson resigned her Moorside ward seat on 31 January with immediate effect.  Pat told me of her decision a few days ago, but I have kept the matter confidential (although I know she had already told a couple of senior officers) out of respect for her wishes.  It is typical of Pat that [...]

West Lancashire Leisure Trust is now saying that the £22,000 went missing from Burscough Sports Centre in February 2008. 
Fair enough.  Except that I’m pretty sure I went to the West Lancashire Leisure Trust in July 2008, and it didn’t get a mention anywhere. I wonder which Trustees of West Lancashire Leisure Trust actually knew about this [...]

I’ve talked quite a lot over the years about West Lancashire’s Conservatives being stuck in a Thatcherite time warp, but I didn’t realise it went quite this far……
A Downholland (West Lancashire) resident has been in touch with me to tell me that he’s received a letter from the Conservative PPC welcoming him to the area after his [...]

My letter to residents on Stopgate Lane/Sineacre Lane is below.  It’s self-explanatory, and with the usual anonymity courtesy for officers.
 Dear resident
 Gritting and maintenance
Further to resident calls during the recent cold snap I have had yet another go at the County Council over the lack of gritting on Stopgate Lane/Sineacre Lane, and about general maintenance.  I [...]

Further to this and before that this, and before them more posts and letters than you shake a hot dinner at, here’s my consultation response about proposed speed limits in Bickerstaffe (and Simonswood) which I seem to have been campaigning for most of my life:

Dear x (Head of Legal Team at Lancs County Council who put out the [...]

I don’t often just link to another website without much comment, but the news of  new plans for the Eastward expansion of sports facilities at Edge Hill University, and the public exhibition on same, will be of interest to Bickerstaffe Ward residents on Scarth Hill Lane.
I’ll certainly be attending the exhibition to see what the plans are, [...]

The deputy leader of the Conservative administration of West Lancashire Borough Council at cabinet last night:
“Our officers are stretched resource-wise.”
Well, yes, that does tend to happen when you needlessly get rid of a load of staff in order to show how Tory you are.  Doh!

There was an interesting extrapolation from figures presented at last night’s West Lancashire Borough Council Conservative cabinet meeting. 
The portfolio holder for leisure services commented on the quarterly performance indicators for the period up to the end of September 2009, referring specifically to indicator WL18 ‘Use of leisure and cultural facilities (swims and visits)’.
This table shows [...]

The Tories’ latest pronouncements on teaching and teacher training are so daftly reactionary that you’d be forgiven for thinking it might be some kind of spoof.  
I bet the students and staff at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk aren’t laughing though.
The most obvious nonsenses are already being dealt with by others in the blogosphere.  Chris Dillow deals with the bizarre [...]