WYRE RESIDENT Harold brings us the latest over the reopening of the Poulton to Fleetwood railway as an angry Fleetwood resident seeks assurances that amateur rail boffins will not be handed control of the line.
THE SECOND Blackpool by-election roundup for the forthcoming political rumpus on the 3rd of May, 2012.
THIS YEAR has seen the unfortunate deaths of two well known and well liked councillors, namely Bloomfield’s Mary Smith and Marton’s Jim Houldsworth, and the by-elections are on the way. Postal voting forms are being deposited through letterboxes this week for polling day on Thursday the 3rd of May. This article is the first of two ward roundups in advance of the forthcoming election.
A CASH storm has erupted after Blackpool FC owner Owen Oyston was paid £11m during Blackpool’s Premier League relegation season.
MANY BRITISH cities have been labelled war zones as minority groups have taken to the streets to vandalise, loot and burn a path of destruction. Gangs of hundreds of hooded, masked youths have been running rampage through London, Birmingham and now Bristol and Liverpool, striking terror into the hearts of shopkeepers and householders whose property they have defiled and incinerated with uncontrolled explosions of mindless violence.
A BIT of a gimmick, but the council have now done the right thing and axed this wasteful bid.
THE 80 year old 1st Bispham Scout and Guide group has been rocked after Blackpool council walloped them with a 13,900% increase in their ground rent.
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]