At lunchtime today, along with my colleagues, Cllr Lesley Rennie, Cllr Bill Duffey, Cllr Leah Fraser and Cllr Simon Mountney I was delighted to be able to attend the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services (MF&RS) Beacon Project at their training centre in Croxteth. The scheme, funded  by Wirral’s Area Fora  brought together eight wirral youths who [...]

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Today saw the start of the 2009/10 FI season with the first GP being held in Melbourne.    New rules, lots of changes, different teams, no Honda, it promises to be an interesting season. First blood to Jenson Button and the new Brawn GP team, headed up by the wise old wizard Ross Brawn,  Brawn GP [...]

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Yesterday evening, along with my wife Sandra and Cllr’s Leah Fraser and Ian Lewis we attended the official of opening of the u534 vistor atraction at Woodside Ferry Terminal. Lots of people attended and the attraction as well as the alterations to the terminal are magnificent. The U534 cost Merseytravel one Euro, and the cash finally [...]

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Earlier tonight Wallasey Conservatives held their annual AGM at New Brifhton’s Floral Pavillion Theatre.   After 8 years Cllr Ian Lewis stood down as Association Chairman and Cllr Lesley Rennie was elected to the Chairmans role.     I would like to say a huge personal thanks to Ian for all his work over the years and I [...]

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Most people I meet are feeling the financial pinch at the moment – the cost of living has gone up while wages are, for many people, frozen or falling. That’s why, this afternoon, Cllr. Ian Lewis and I proposed to freeze the allowances paid to councillors on Merseytravel.  Elected officials should lead from the front [...]

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