HERE’S A little activity which you can all try at home, work or wherever else you may be. Ensure you are looking straight ahead and take your dominant hand and place it round your throat. Now squeeze your windpipe so it’s about half its normal diameter. Not enjoyable, is it? But this is what Blackpool [...more]
A lady named Diana Pidwell has attracted the attention of the local newpaper today with a serious complaint about the safety of a new pedestrian crossing in South Shore. Perversely I did sport a grin when I read this story but you will see why shortly. In their infinite wisdom, plonkers in the council planning [...more]
Fylde Community Radio and the Gasjet have covered this one already, but I thought I’d toss in my two penneth. It was decreed a number of years ago that the council’s target was for Blackpool taxis to be no older than 10 years by 2013. The maximum age is currently set at 14 years. However, [...more]
You can’t have failed to notice the prices of fuel creeping up at the pumps for no apparent reason. The cheapest price in Blackpool that I have found is 111.9p per litre of basic unleaded (Shell on Talbot Road and Morrisons at Squires Gate); not quite the 120p of the previous fuel price surge but [...more]
I’m not really surprised by this but it came out two days ago that out of 88,536 incidents of police officers caught speeding on duty last year only 153 were prosecuted. And these were only the ones caught on camera. If there was ever any doubt that the police service is a self-serving old boy’s [...more]
Whilst the Council are pumping money into more traffic calming bollocks on Bloomfield Road, their neglect for road maintenance becomes more and more prominent. Drive around anywhere these days and there’s a good chance you will find pot holes in the road. Take Highfield Road, Ansdell Road, Central Drive, Condor Grove, and so on: all [...more]
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