WE KNEW it was coming.
REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES to right all the wrongs? Not really. Here’s a summary of the upcoming modifications of Blackpool Promenade.
A CASH storm has erupted after Blackpool FC owner Owen Oyston was paid £11m during Blackpool’s Premier League relegation season.
RESIDENTS DON’T want a 20mph blanket speed limit in Marton, they want a reduction in the volume of traffic. The council penned a solution to this in 2008, but where has it gone?
Mar 042012
LESS THAN a week after Cllr Mary Smith sadly died, Blackpool has lost another of its best. Marton Councillor Jim Houldsworth finally lost his battle with lung cancer.
I only met him recently and in spite of his condition he still demonstrated the fire and passion he was known for. A great councillor and nice bloke.
RIP.
HE’S ALREADY creaming thousands of pounds of taxpayers money for sitting on the fairly pointless Lancashire Police Authority, but Labour’s youngest councillor wants more.
Mar 022012
SIMON BLACKBURN infamously promised to spend his entire ward budget on saving an under-utilized library in the run up to an election. Now, former Conservative leader Peter Callow is pledging his entire ward budget towards funding an under-used tram stop. But what election is he campaigning for?
Feb 292012
MAN OF a thousand insults, Harold, takes the Blackpool benefits culture to task with an outrageous rant.