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 [...]
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 [...]
Train line reopens after 40 years. Lessons for Burscough Curves?
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008News from last week about train line reopening after 40 years in Scotland. Reminded me of the Burscough Curves which must be around their 40th anniversary of being closed. Like the Ormskirk bypass the local papers flip-flop between optimism and pessimism about the future of the project; and just at the moment there seems to [...]
Pilkington invests £40m in Northwest facilities
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008This press release reports that Pilkington is investing £40m in new facilities in St Helens. Great news locally, but the bit that jumped out for me was this paragraph:
The coating facility will produce Activ self cleaning glass. It will use nanotechnology developed down the road at the company’s European Technical Centre at Lathom, near [...]
Skelmersdale regeneration consultation feedback
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008This from the Council’s website about the Skelmersdale consultation over the past six weeks. I would be interested to see the details, which I assume will be in the papers for Overview and Scrutiny on the 5th June. The Labour group should be congratulated for promoting the consultation too.
I hope that the Labour group [...]
Council - be nice to nettles week
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008From the council’s website: No sting in this nettle event!
To celebrate national ‘Be Nice To Nettles Week’, the Council is
hosting a special event at Ormskirk’s Coronation Park on Sunday
18th May starting from 2pm.
Those who come along will be able to find out from the Urban
Park Ranger why this adaptable plant that is hated by many [...]
Election leaflets
Friday, April 20th, 2007I’m quite pleased with our election leaflets this year. Printed by Flexipress in Ormskirk who did a brilliant job, it’s the first time that we’ve printed colour on non-glossy paper. They have a lovely tactile feel to them and the content isn’t bad either!
When I was little, growing up in Abram, there was a printers down [...]
Budget speech
Monday, March 5th, 2007Budget speech from Full Council last week. If anyone is interested….
Chairman,
It’s an honour for me to present Labour’s response to the Conservative budget, but believe me, it would be a greater honour to present it for a Labour group, in control of the council. Something, that I hope, is only a couple of months away.
I [...]
South Lathom Parish Council
Sunday, March 4th, 2007The South Lathom Parish Council will be formed by the local elections this May. There was a brief debate last Wednesday about it - mainly around the fact that District elections will have to take place in Newburgh ward because some people move out of one ward into another. Having to hold an extra election [...]
West Lancs Budget
Sunday, February 4th, 2007Last year I wrote about how rubbish the budget scrutiny was - this year there hasn’t been much improvement. The training that the scrutiny committee was promised didn’t happen and so the budget position as discussed last Thursday was limited.
This year, as it was last year, the budget papers were stuck at the end of a [...]