April 2008

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• Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News

  Name your local hero(ine)

  04.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I got an invitation from the Ormskirk/Skelmersdale Advertiser to nominate a ‘local hero’.  I’ve pasted it in below.  If anyone’s got anyone from Bickerstaffe or wider West Lancs that they want to put forward, please let me know.  i’m happy to do the required 250 words if I’m given the right info.  Of course you can also [...]

• About me, Cotterill on the Council

  Cyclists as a new minority?

  04.29.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

   I was just filling in an expenses claim, and it occured to me that I’d not covered this matter on the blog and what with my new found blogging keenness, I’m getting right to it……….
  The Council introduced its bike allowance for councillors this month, courtesy of a bit of moral pressure last year from me [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News

  Bickerstock, 02 August 2008

  04.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I attended a ‘photoshoot’ (sounds more glamourous than it was) to promote Bickerstock 2008 yesterday.  See the Skem/Ormskirk Champion this week if it goes in.   This will be the 6th year of the festival, and it’s grown steadily in popularity.  It’s still not huge, but is now starting to be known on the local [...]

• About me, Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  Safe biking in Bickerstaffe

  04.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I got a great list of  questions in from Year 3 & 4 pupils in at Bickerstaffe Primary School about the do’s and don’ts of cycling, as I’m the only parent who rides to school with the kids.   I was supposed to go in and see them to be interviewed, with the questions as a guideline, as part of their work.  Unfortunately, I [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  A570 works finished

  04.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The works on the A570 between Stanley Gate and Scarth Hill Lane are now complete.  I’ve not had any complaints come my way about the works, other than some concern about the scarring of road verges on the diversion down Poppy Lane and Croppers Lane, which I’ve asked to be addressed, and in general people [...]

• Cotterill on the Council

  Skelmersdale Town Centre – a win or wasted opportunity?

  04.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a bit beyond my usual very local territory, but it’s not every day you get plans for a new town centre three or four miles away (and if plans go ahead for Everton moving to Kirkby, we’ll have two new ones to deal with, and I’ll post something separate on that as it [...]

• Cotterill on the Council

  More double standards at Council night

  04.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  More double standards from the Tories at Council on Wednesday night, with a basic lack of understanding thrown in……. 
  The big set piece of the Council meeting on Wednesday night was my colleague Mary’s motion deploring the actions of the Tory Finance Portfolio Holder in closing down cash offices, and seeking a pause and consultation.  For [...]

• About me, Bickerstaffe Thoughts

  A bit of benchmarking

  04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m coming to the end of my first year as councillor now so I thought I’d just have a quick look back at what I’ve been up to – it’s certainly been a full year.  One simple way to test my activity level is to count the number of problems/issues I’ve officially lodged with the [...]

• Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News

  Good news in Simonswood for once

  04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today brought news that a firm on Simonswood Industrial Estate has been fined £4, 000 plus costs for not taking reasonable precautions to contain materials on their trucks bringing stuff to their site, resulting in spillages all over the road and potential accidents.The District Council, who carried out the prosecution after complaints from residents and [...]

• Cotterill on the Council

  National bus passes and Council double speak

  04.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Below re are two bits of a motion passed by the ruling Conservative group last night at the Council meeting, on the matter of how many additional concessions they will grant over and above the government’s free bus travel for all over 60s. 
  “That it be noted that budgetary provision for 2008/09 has been made to [...]

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