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]
THERE’S ONLY one motion on the agenda for the council meeting on the 18th of January 2012, but it’s one that most Blackpudlians would surely be in support of.
UPDATE: Labour submitted a government-bashing amendment resulting in the Conservatives rejecting the motion.
THE LIVERPOOL firm that valued former councillor Ian Fowler’s property on Crystal Road at £180,000 as part of a bungled regeneration project has this week won a Compulsory Purchase Order which will see the remaining 25% of the Talbot Gateway/Central Business District land made available for council demolition squads.
HIGH STREETS are in a ‘dire state’ according to the retail consultant Mary Portas, and she has prepared a 55-page document with her own solutions. So where do we start?
TODAY I received my latest dose of indoctrination from the council’s Ministry of Truth. As we have come to expect, this newsletter is smattered with important names you will have heard of, but have no idea what they actually do; featured heavily in this edition is Eileen Ormand who gets paid over £60,000 per year [...more]
SAINSBURYS ARE moving into Blackpool’s town centre Talbot Gateway development, which is being renamed to the Central Business District. Why have they dropped the name?
REVIEW OF the Highways plan for the Blackpool’s forthcoming bank-breaking project.
PENNY PINCHING councillors have called for every visitor to Blackpool Illuminations to contribute £1 in donations because of a cash shortfall.