Did you know that the Talbot Gateway incorporates the shared space concept that has been so successful in St. John’s square?
I wonder whether they have thought about axing it after all of the recent uproar…
Blackpool
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Casino boss dealt a good hand by council planners
I talked about a month ago about the council thwarting Pierre Coulon’s attempts to buy a new venue for his casino after the previous one suffered collateral damage in an arson attack last year.
They decreed that casinos were a “town centre use” and in trying to force Mr Coulon to locate his casino in the Winter Gardens, they would only permit him to use the Number One club on Bloomfield Road for 4 years.
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Mar 10
Only 9 years for vicious knife assault
What corrupts the human condition such that a person is prepared to take a knife, hunt down a target and mutilate, maim or murder them? What causes an innocent baby to transform, years later, into an aggressor with murderous intent?
The Gasjet yesterday covered an incident which appalled me and to be honest filled me with rage. Today it has entered the national press. It concerns 22 year old Kieran Whitfield, who was walking home from a night out in Blackpool on August 29th, 2009. He was accosted by a pack of three teenagers, chased along St. Annes Road to Aintree Road and was set upon with a knife.
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Mar 10
Integrity greeted by pessimists
As True Blackpudlian mentioned yesterday, there was an article in the Gasjet about Integrity UK – the new political party founded on the Fylde Coast that I discussed 2 weeks ago.
There wasn’t really anything we didn’t know already, but it’s good that the local newspaper was able to break it’s political allegiance with the Labour party and publicise this new organisation.
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Blackpool the Movie
You may have heard about this, but another Blackpool publicity website has been unveiled. It’s called Blackpool the Movie and is supposed to give people an X-Factor style experience of Blackpool. Apparently they are using the voice of the X Factor, Peter Dickson, to give it that extra polish.
To be honest it looks more like a data mining tool in order to determine where people are from that are visiting Blackpool, but regardless I had a go on it just now.
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Mar 10
Shared space creates crime according to cabbie
It’s been proposed that St. John’s square will become a den of crime if buses and taxis are banned from it.
It came as absolutely no surprise to discover that the source was a taxi driver. By the second sentence the story is already a non-tangible fail, but it’s the start of the week so I’ll assault it a little more.
Bill Lewtas from Blackpool Licensed Taxi Operators’ Association said, and I promise I am not making this up;
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Mar 10
Now thats what I call regeneration!
We’ve seen Blackpool tarting the town up with hoardings in empty shops but up on Tyneside the council have thought of an even better scheme.
Fake shop fronts.
And I’m not joking.
Check it out.
I just hope the likes of Helen France aren’t reading this.
