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    Councillor’s Diary – Week commencing 24th October 2016

    Monday 24th October Progressed a couple of pieces of Casework on the lift at Dane Road, it’s still not working and I’ve reported it; and the cycleway at the bottom of Moss Road – schedule for a visit by the sweeper this week. A colleague relayed the circumstances…

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    Councillor’s Diary – Week Commencing 17th October 2016

    Summary of a week’s activity as councillor.

  • Rugby League Fans ‘the worst we have to deal with’

    Rugby League has a long standing reputation as a family orientated spectator sport. The experiences that Gorse Hill residents have relayed to me following last week’s Grand Final between Wigan and Warrington at Old Trafford suggest that things have slipped. Football fans, we’re used to. It’s never an…

  • Is this the most unsafe crossing in Stretford?

    Why would anyone think that placing a parking space that can only be accessed via the dropped kerb of a pedestrian crossing is a good idea? Imagine school children at the crossing and a car is reversing back into the road from behind. It’s ridiculous. I’m pushing council…

  • IDS resignation shines light on The Big Lie at centre of Tory Policies

    An Extraordinarily important letter; take it at its face value, here is the guy who has been implementing Tory welfare cuts for the last six years and he is now saying that they are unfair… .. and that the government, the Conservative Government, of which he has been…

  • EU – I’ve Made my Mind up

    The EU is hard to love There’s plenty wrong with the EU. The economic collapse of Greece was not just a consequence of a country partying out on debt. Merkel’s Germany was happy to be complicit in financing that debt in the good times, happy to wash her…