IN MARCH 2011, Lancashire Constabulary were told to make average savings of £10.5m per year for the next four years. They said this would result in 550 officer and 250 civilian positions being cut, including 160 front line staff. In November 2011, police bosses decided that in addition, six Fylde police stations must close in [...more]
AIR PASSENGER DUTY is crippling the British aviation industry – find out how much the greedy tax man is robbing from you and what you can do about it.
MEET DOREEN, the hard-up DLA claimant who’s just booked two weeks all inclusive to Barbados.
THE GASJET wouldn’t even mention the Crystal Road farce whilst it was taking place, but lately they can’t stop writing about it. On the 23rd of January the Gasjet ran a story about a £4,500 investigation, initiated by Tory councillor Peter Callow, into Simon Blackburn’s expenses claims. In the face of claims that this money [...more]
PERIODICALLY THE Local Data Company (LDC) produce figures detailing shop premises occupancy, and every year Blackpool is among the worst performing in the UK. In 2011, the LDC figures stated that Blackpool’s town centre had a massive 27.5% of shops left empty, and stated that the average figure for the UK was just 14.5%. At [...more]
A FREEDOM of Information request was submitted back in December 2011 requesting the accident figures for Blackpool’s new Promenade since it opened in May 2011. Time ticked away, yet still no figures have been produced by the council. And now an internal review is in progress, to what end, one wonders. We already know that [...more]
AS LEADER of the opposition, Simon Blackburn repeatedly dismissed any prospect of online area forums and the foundation of his reasoning was that not all residents have computers and/or access to the internet. Disregarding the fact that any resident can gain access to the internet and can gain free training at any of Blackpool’s libraries, [...more]
YOU KNOW something’s afoot when you see a police officer in Blackpool’s town centre, and today there are loads of them. We have a royal guest. Prince Edward is in the house and, as I write this, is providing his taxpayer-funded official opening services to the appalling tumour of a wedding shack on our crumbling [...more]