LOVE THEM or hate them, the multinational mega-supermarkets are here to stay. Multiplying like a retail bacteria, each promises the lowest prices, the best quality and the best service. One development in the last few years at many supermarkets is the introduction of “pay at the pump” systems on their petrol station forecourts, where customers [...more]
AS CLLR Callow experiences the woes of St. John’s, Blackpool cabbies are set to launch a leafletting campaign slamming the congestion his council have created.
A DAMAGED sewer that is causing raw sewage to flood into a property on Park Road is set to be repaired on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of February. There was an attempt to fix this on the 22nd and 23rd of January, but due to “unforseen circumstances” the work was not done. [...more]
I AM not the wisest owl in the barn by any means, but I have always assumed that public sector employees being paid six and seven figure salaries must have something about them and some quality of excellence to support their position. We’re always told that they deserve their massive remuneration package because “in the [...more]
ON THE Fylde Coast, we are used to traffic schemes that create congestion and prohibit traffic flow rather than alleviate and assist them. Usually the masterminds behind these shite traffic management schemes are sat in Blackpool Council offices, but Highways Agency traffic boffins have taken the biscuit with their proposals for the Norcross Roundabout on [...more]
NONE OF us like the dull thud and resultant jolt as our vehicles traverse the nasty cancer of speed humps coursing through Blackpool’s road infrastructure, and our motoring experience is about to get a whole lot more turbulent as several roads in the Revoe area are set to be closed intermittently to install even more [...more]
PAUL MAYNARD has hit the national press in what could be described as an exposé of the old-fashioned, out of touch attitudes that are still boiling in the belly of the House of Commons. The equality and diversity drug that Matron Harperson injected into the bloodstream of the Labour party seems to have spawned a [...more]
THE BLOODY-MINDED, ivory tower approach of Blackpool council in relation to the roads has struck once again after a pensioner was smashed into by a vehicle whilst walking on a controversial pedestrian crossing on Lytham Road. It’s not very often that pedestrians call for pedestrian crossings to be removed, but like the crossing at St. [...more]