ALMOST £300,000 of boardroom talent face questions from angry locals about the controversial recommendation for closure of a local tramway crossing.
LABOUR FIRE the first shots in the local elections with some hard hitting leaflets exposing their opponents, but do they have the policies to win over the voters?
TAKE A room, fill it up with councillors, add in the council executive for good measure, and top up with their personal assistants and a legal team. What do you get? A brutal cocktail of waste. The last council meeting went on for around three and a half hours, during which Labour proposed 8 motions, [...more]
SOME PARTS of Blackpool would make a perfect setting for a post-apocalyptic film, and now Councillor ‘Mad’ Max is on a mission to destroy any hope of regeneration.
FOLLOWING A proposed scheme which would see bollards and cycle lanes outside hotels on St. Chad’s Road in South Shore, local cyclists have dismissed the cycle obsession from Blackpool council as a ‘total waste of money’. In an outburst which labelled cycling planners as ‘faceless gnomes’ that live in ‘ivory towers’, cyclist after cyclist were [...more]
IT SEEMS to me that Cllr Callow – and the Gazette for that matter – are becoming obsessed with global auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers. They may well be ruthless in determining the cuts to be made as Callow states in today’s Gasjet, but to me it looks more like Cllr Callow bringing them in as fall guys [...more]
Aug 172010
THE GUARDIAN is today reporting that in 2008/2009 Blackpool Council hosed over £140,000 on its website. This equates to 99p per resident, according to the report. But this is small beer compared with Birmingham City Council who spent £2.8m on their website in the same period! Ouch.
Apr 302010
Below is a copy of councillor Don McNaughton’s letter to tonight’s Gasjet: Start with shuttle train link I WAS disappointed by Coun Ron Shewan’s comments when he disparaged the idea of a community railway with a heritage element (Gazette April 24). I fully support his view that Fleetwood needs a proper passenger and freight rail [...more]