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  Eight years on, some good news

  09.08.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Right, the Bickerstaffe Record blogholiday is over, and over the next day or few we’ll be back with a vengeance with loads of new stuff.
  Here, for starters, is a picture of me, standing next to a sign which says there’s a 30mph limit in place past Bickerstaffe C of E Primary School (and along Hall Lane, [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  Knowsley Safari

  07.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I received the above leaflet through my letterbox yesterday (click on thumbnail)
  So I sent the following email to Customer Services:
   

   
   
   
   

  Dear Sir/Madam
  I received your Chief Executive’s ‘interim budget update’ A5 flyer today through my door.
  It’s very informative, but, alas, totally irrelevant to me as I live 1.5 miles over the Lancashire border.
  I am at 2 Moss [...]

• Being Labour, Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  Am I angry? You bet I am

  06.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s my press release about the news that the speed limits and safety measures across Bickerstaffe ward are being held up by the Tories’s ridiculous decision to halt ALL capital spending.  It speaks for itself.

  A Labour councillor has reacted angrily to the decision by the Conservative administration at Lancashire County Council to put on hold [...]

• Being Labour, Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News, Cotterill on the Council

  Road safety goes on hold under the Tories

  06.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve just had written confirmation in from the County Council that the various speed limiting and safety scheme measures approved for Bickerstaffe, including the 30mph limit past the school that we’ve been campainging about for years now, are officially on hold until after the ConDem ‘emergency’ (for which read politically opportunist because there is no emergency) budget on [...]

• Being Labour, Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News

  Shocking incompetence: £125,000 goes left unclaimed by Tories

  06.14.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Have West Lancs Tories patented incompetence when it comes to transport provision?
  As I reported here, consultants reported two years ago on the need for a community transport scheme to meet the work travel needs of the people of Skelmersdale, where car ownership remains low.
  According to the council’s own Key Decision Forward Plan, this matter should [...]

• Being Labour, Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Cotterill on the Council

  Things Fall Apart tenfold under the Tories

  06.14.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is the text of my letter to the Environment Director at Lancashire County Council, setting out a concise list of ten issues on which I have raised and on which I am awaiting either feedback or promised action.
  It reflects my frustration at the apparently total inaction.  More importantly, it reflects a service which, under a Tory [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News

  The strain on the drain

  06.07.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  While sorting out the groundworks for the new nursery at Bickerstaffe C of E school, the heroic John and Sheila have discovered that the drains from the school have been retaining the remains of a few more school dinners than they should have been.
  For some time now, there has been more than the occasional whiff [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Cotterill on the Council

  Absent with leave

  05.26.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m off for a few days. 
  I will come back even more raring to go than I am now.  Ah now, let’s be honest here.  I’m a bit knackered.
  In the meantime, my usual casework cover arrangements apply.  If you have an urgent local issue, you can
  a)  contact my colleague Bob Pendleton on 01695 728198.  Bob covers Tanhouse ward [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  Evidence of actual existence of nursery builds

  05.20.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The nursery under construction in the factory.  Should be with us in about three weeks.  Five years to get to here.  Four planning applications.  Three main funders.  Two rescue packages.  One aim.

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  A577 safety campaign update

  04.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s the text of the most recent letter to the Cabinet Member for Highways about the inadequate plans for the A577 safety scheme.
  Cllr K Young
  Cabinet Member for Highways and Transportation
  County Hall
  Lancashire County Council
  Preston
   Dear Cllr Young
  I think you may now have had time to digest the details of the proposed safety scheme for the A577 between [...]

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