Today is perhaps best known as halloween, however today is also designated as a Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Whilst Halloween in most cases is a bit of fun, breast cancer unfortunately is not in anyway funny, it is a killer. I personally am aware of six people who over the years have sadly lost their battle [...]
Archive for October, 2008
October 31st
Posted in Campaigning, tagged Breast Cancer, Dare to wear pink, Health on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.roadsafetymatters.com
Posted in Campaigning, Community, tagged Leah Fraser, Road Safety, Roadpeace, School Crossings, Wirral Council on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, my colleague Leah Fraser, the prospective Conservative MP for Moreton and Wallasey, has stepped up the campaign to stop the cuts to our school crossing patrols. There is a new website here which will provide a running commentary on the campaign, following this week’s coverage in the Globe, Post, BBC Radio Merseyside and Buzz FM. [...]
REVEALED
Posted in Chris Blakeley, tagged Daily Post, Jean Quinn, Leah Fraser, Road Safety, Roadpeace, School Crossing patrols, Wirral Council, Wirral Globe on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Liberal Democrat Councillor, Jean Quinn, who is Wirral’s Cabinet Member for Streetscene in the ruling Labour/Lib Dem controlled Council, has it seems, been forced to reveal the previously SECRET list of which schools in Wirral which will lose their lollipop person as a result of the Councils savage cuts to this service. I wonder did it have [...]
Save Our Lollipop Ladies, (and Men)
Posted in Campaigning, Community, tagged Budget Cuts, Cabinet, Labour, Leah Fraser, Lib Dem, School Crossing patrols, Wirral, Wirral Council on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amongst over £4 million in cuts the Lib/Lab Council have decided on is a proposed £50,000 cut for school crossing patrols. We can’t say which schools will be affected because the Council has made the report exempt. (Gagged us in other words). However we can say that many crossing patrols at schools across Wirral will lose their [...]
This Train Definitely Stops on Merseyside!
Posted in Community, Merseytravel, tagged Amsterdam, Does this train stop on Merseyside, Ian Prowse, John Peel Train, Merseyrail, Merseytravel, OMD, the olivetti chronicles on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry about the lack of posts recently, but I decided to take a few days off. Anyway I am back, so hopefully normal service will be resumed. Yesterday in the morning I attended the second Merseyside Annual Transport Conference at Liverpool Town Hall. As that finished, and in my role as Chairman of Merseytravel’s Rail [...]
Area Forum
Posted in Community, tagged Area Forum, Leasowe, Local Councillors, Moreton, PCT, Raining, Saughall Massie, Streetscene on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Area Forum for Moreton, Leasowe and Saughall Massie is being held tomorrow evening at the Community Centre in Maryland Lane. The forum commences at 7pm and as well as having updates on Streetscene, PCT, Police etc, we have an Enviormental Health Officer coming along to explain the Council’s Policy, (or lack of) on ferral Pigeons. Why not come along [...]
Revoke this License
Posted in Community, Licensing, tagged Alcohol, Licensing, Licensing Panel, Merseyside Police, Oasis Newsagents, Raining, Wirral Council on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow morning Wirral’s Licensing Panel will be considering a report submitted by Wirral’s Trading Standards which calls into review the license issued earlier this year to the Oasis Newsagents, Pasture Road. The reason for the review is because the shop has now been caught twice selling alcohol to under-aged children. You can read the report by [...]
