Merseyrail presses Network Rail to handover running tracks
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008This, in the Liverpool Daily Post says that transport chiefs in Merseyside are lobbying for control of the railway tracks. Apparently they’ve been pushing for the past two years for this, and despite the headline, it doesn’t look like there’s been much movement forward in the idea. However, it seems that Merseyrail are still pushing [...]
Hung parliament speculation
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Found in my drafts from a couple of weeks ago….
Peter Kellner speculates on the Progress blog about what might happen if there is a hung parliament after the next GE. Rather than the usual stuff about jumping into bed with the Fib Dems it sets out a couple of scenarios and what might happen in [...]
West Lancs District Council - Committee Papers online
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008A useful link for anyone interested in West Lancs District Council:
http://webdocs.westlancsdc.gov.uk/Coins/
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before, but this system is one of the most interesting on the WLDC site. You can get papers for all the public meetings, information about councillors and which committees they sit on.
For example, next week’s Executive [...]
between the lines
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008I thought things had gone very quiet for local journalists blogging since David Sudworth shuffled off his journalistic coil, but I’m pleased to see that Robert Alcock has stepped into his shoes with his take on the local political scene. Of course, I’m seven months late noticing this - so everyone will have come across [...]
Supporting Tamsin Dunwoody for Crewe and Nantwich
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The party in Crewe and Nantwich have set up a website for the by-election campaign. I’m showing my support with a copy of their website button, but more importantly the site is going to have updates of campaigning events. Click on the button to the left and it’ll take you there.
FC United v Skelmersdale
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Came across this clip with the goals from last weeks play-off final. Tried to convince the family that we should go, but Lily’s operation meant that it wasn’t a go-er. To be honest it was one of those games where I’d prefer both teams to be promoted, but I was disappointed to see Skem beaten [...]
Leyland Labour Blog
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Interesting blog being maintained by Leyland Labour. Might be a useful template for West Lancs to follow. I like the broader non-labour items: local people and the notice board.
My only criticism is that there isn’t the ability to post comments, which might turn some people off. A site like this would surely benefit if [...]
A longer view
Sunday, May 4th, 2008I’ve been looking back over the results over the past eight elections (excluding the by-election in Up Holland a couple of years ago). I’ve plotted two sets of results below - first the share of the vote across the District and secondly the share of the vote across the constituency.
Firstly across the District:
For 2001 [...]
Election results - behind the headlines
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Sadly, last Thursday was a bad day for Labour in West Lancs. We lost two excellent Labour councillors in Cynthia Dereli and Maggie Skilling. I’ve worked with Maggie for a few years - she was our local councillor when we lived in Up Holland and she was brilliant. Both Cynthia and Maggie worked tirelessly for [...]
Nothing much here… move along!
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008I’ve not posted anything here in a while. Mainly because about a year ago I was told that this blog was putting investment into Skelmersdale at risk! Of course, it was a stupid comment, from someone who obviously hadn’t read it. But I held off posting because I thought it would make for a quieter [...]
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