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.
Apr 232011
LOCAL LEGEND Harold Ernest Gokdogan slaps down the Wedding Chapel in his own unimitable style.
Dec 012010
IT’S THAT time of year again, but will Blackpool Council be able to keep locals safe this year by gritting the roads? Enter Operation Snowdrop!
Oct 202010
Today the 20th October marks a very significant day for the country and for the Coalition Government. It is the day of the long-awaited Spending Review. There has been much speculation particularly in the left-wing press trying to imply it is the start of 4 years of doom and gloom. Personally I have always been [...more]
A couple of years ago Blackpool Council unveiled ‘The Saturation policy’ which in one sentence is basically a policy that was meant to curb the opening of binge drinking outlets. Now at first that sounds like a admirable enough ambition to try and restore a bit of quality to Blackpool’s nightscene. Unlike some of the [...more]
Feb 282010
This month has seen yet more growth for my website with 3940 visits compared with 3095 last month. Page views were up dramatically with 18731 views compared with 12482, and there were more unique visitors; up from 739 to 872. I’m not sure where these extra visitors are hearing about the site as I don’t [...more]
Just a quick follow up to my last post about Fylde and Wyre councils implementing the Waste Collector data mining system. I’ve had a look at my wheelie bins in and two of them have RFID chips already implanted. These are the non-recyclable waste (grey) bin and the garden/cardboard waste (green) bin. The RFID chips [...more]
The North West Development Agency (NWDA) for anyone not aware is basically an organisation headquartered in Warrington which is charged with distributing funding throughout the North West. But do really need such an expensive ‘middle man’ to perform this function? This quango costs about £500m a year which could easily be better spent elsewhere as [...more]