Readers of the blog and our community Newsline will be aware that I have been working with the Brooke Residents Association and the Council’s Highways Department to try to bring about some speed reduction/road safety improvements in Bermuda Road. I am delighted to be able to report that after a meeting with Geoff Bell, Assistant Director [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Road Safety Improvements – Bermuda Road
Posted in Campaigning, Challenges, Community, tagged Council, Residents, Road Safety on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
£115,000 for Moreton and Leasowe!
Posted in Campaigning, Challenges, Community, Conservatives, tagged Health Park, Leasowe, Moreton, Play areas on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this evening I, along with my colleague Cllr Ian Lewis attended Wirral’s planning committee to hear them approve the application for the new Health Park on Pasture Road in Moreton. The developer had offered the sum of £115,000 as a sort of compensation payment for the loss of the derelict multi use games area [...]
Wirral’s Planners set to approve Health Park for Moreton
Posted in Community, Health, Moreton, tagged GP's, Health, Moreton on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow (Thursday 29th) evening Wirral’s Planning Committee are expected to endorse planning officers recommendation to approve the new Health Park in Pasture Road Moreton. You can access the plans by clicking here. The plan is to bring all four Moreton GP’s surgerys to one site on the existing Moreton Medical Centre Site by expanding the site to [...]
Moreton Beach RECOMMENDED in Good Beach Guide 2008
Posted in Challenges, Community, tagged Beach, Moreton on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Great news, Moreton’s beach has been recommended in the Marine Conservation Society good beach guide for 2008. This is the highest accolade that the society can give and shows the tremendous improvements made in sea quality over the years. Also successful in Wirral are the beaches at West Kirby, Meols and New Brighton. For the [...]
F Bus – People power wins through again!
Posted in Challenges, Community, Council, Merseytravel on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been confirmed that those parents who were having to pay in excess of £500 per year/per child to get their children to Grammar Schools in Wirral have won the battle to get equality of fares with other schools. Last year all of Wirral’s Parliamentary Candidates, Leah Fraser (Wallasey and Moreton), Jeff Clarke (Wirral South) [...]
King of Monte Carlo (For today anyway)
Posted in Challenges, Motor Racing, tagged Formula One, Monaco on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for today winning the prestigious Monaco Formula One Grand Prix, fulfilling one of his dreams, and emulating the feat of his childhood hero, the fabulous, and much missed F1 Driver, Ayrton Senna. Hopefully this year Lewis will go one better and become World Champion.
Birkenhead Bias to Continue?
Posted in Challenges, New Labour, tagged Birkenhead, Lib Dem, New Labour on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t see anything other than the Birkenhead bias for spending Council Taxpayers money, all the Labour councillors on Wirral’s Cabinet come from the Birkenhead constituency. As well as that, the Labour Chairman of Environment Committee is a Birkenhead Councillor, as is the Chairman of the Steetscene and Transportation Committee, Community and Customer Engagement Committee and the Pensions Committee. All [...]
MASSACRE in Crewe and Nantwich
Posted in Campaigning, Challenges, Conservatives, tagged By Election, Conservatives, Parliament on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon Brown was dealt a devastating blow in Crewe and Nantwich in the early hours of this morning when the Conservative candidate, Edward Timpson (Pictured left) achieved a 17.6 swing from Labour to capture the once safe seat of Crewe and Nantwich. Full results can be found by clicking here. The seat, formerley held by Labour stalwart [...]
Doctor Who comes to Spaceport
Posted in Families, Merseytravel, tagged Daleks, Doctor Who, Mersey Ferries, Spaceport on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, after the formalities of Council I went along to the preview of the Doctor Who Exhibition, ‘From Script To Screen’ at Spaceport, adjacent to Seacombe Ferry. The exhibition, which is normally based in Cardiff has been moved lock stock and Tardis to Spaceport, and will remain on display until January 2009. I would like [...]
Standards!
Posted in Council, New Labour, tagged New Labour, Standards on May 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
F*** Off you Tory T**** sadly, this is not ‘fill in the gaps’. Instead, this was the heavily edited (alleged) quote from a member of the Labour Group to the 24 Conservative Councillors last night. Not in private or under his breath, but blatantly, in front of the Mayor, the public gallery and across the Chamber. [...]
