January has seen my blog beat all previous records, enjoying its best month for hits at over 6,000, its best week at over 2,200 hits and its best day at 681 hits. May not seem much to many of the bigger political blogs that are published, but for what is predominently a local site, dealing [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Best Month, Best Week, Best Day!
Posted in Chris Blakeley, tagged Cllr Chris Blakeley, Council, Leah Fraser, Local Conservatives, Moreton, Saughall Massie, Wirral on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Can YOU Help?
Posted in Health, tagged Bone Marrow, Chinese Community, Drugs, Health, Wirral on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Wirral woman who faces a race against time to find a matching bone marrow donor is appealing to the chinese community to help provide the lifesaving transplant she needs to beat leukaemia. Jenny Wilkinson, 44, of Wallasey, was diagnosed with leukaemia in May 2009. After three unsuccessful courses of chemotherapy, she is now taking [...]
National Holocaust Day
Posted in Chris Blakeley, tagged Auschwitz, Germany, Holocaust, Jews, Nazis, Polish on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is National Holocaust Day, the date is in remembrance of the day which the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp – Auschwitz-Birkenau. You can read more HERE I am sure we can all take a moment to reflect, on what is a very solemn occasion.
Help Us Make 2010 The Year Of Change
Posted in Campaigning, Leah Fraser, Local Conservatives, tagged Campaigning, Leah Fraser, Local Conservatives, MP, New Labour, Parliament, Wirral on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight I joined the members odf the Action Team to go door knocking, seeking peoples views on both local, and national issues. With the local, and probably the General elections only 100 days away it is important that we don’t take our foot off the gas. No election can be taken for granted and our [...]
Am I Boverred?
Posted in Lib Dem, Merseytravel, tagged Birkenhead, Kingsway, Leah Fraser, Lib Dems, Liverpool, Merseytravel, MITA, MTUA, Queensway, Tunnel Tolls, Wallasey on January 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It seems that because I have been letting people know the good news that the Mersey Tunnel Tolls will not be increasing this year, (read more on that HERE and HERE) that I have upset the leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the Merseytravel Board, and his Wirral Lib Dem rep, with, I am [...]
4th February, 2010
Posted in Mersey Tunnels, tagged Birkenhead, Cllr Ian Lewis, Cllr Leah Fraser, Kingsway, Liverpool, Merseytravel, Queensway, Tunnel Tolls, Wallasey on January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I spent a couple of hours this morning with my Conservative colleagues on Merseytravel, Cllr Ian Lewis and Cllr Bob Roberts, where we met with Jim Barclay, Merseytravels Director of Resources, to look at his proposed budget figures for 2010/11. High on our agenda was the situation regarding Mersey Tunnel Tolls. We were delighted that he [...]
Away Day
Posted in Council, tagged Council, Floral Pavilion, Neptune, New Brighton, Wirral Conservatives on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today has been spent at the Floral Pavilion for the Wirral Conservative Group ‘Away Day’. The day (the first we have held for three years) was spent listening to Council officers telling us about the current financial stresses in the Council, and the difficulties that the coming years will bring, as well as how the [...]
The Full English
Posted in Chris Blakeley, tagged Breakfast, Christchurch, Ian Lewis, Moreton, New Brighton, Peninsular Dining Room, Steve Smith, Steve Williams, Upton Road on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After a late(ish) night at the WCA Gala Dinner at the Peninsula Dining Room in New Brighton, I was up and out bright and early to go to the Men’s Breakfast at Christchurch Parish Centre in Moreton, along with Ian Lewis and Steve Williams. The breakfast, which was very good was cooked by Leasowe and Moreton East [...]
