• More Cuts for Trafford

    Budget Meeting Full council meets tonight to set a budget for 2014/15. Trafford will cut its spending by £4,451,000 from £159.003m to £154.552m or 2.8%. When you take cost pressures into account it’s £17m… and it’s going to get worse.

  • Floods – You don’t need a Weatherman…

    When Cameron is this desperate, you know the Tories want to deflect the sunlight. Cameron’s yard-dogs have been blaming everyone during the Somerset floods. They’ve been smearing and leaking about the Environment Agency; they’ve been pointing the fingers at Councils, even Conservative run Councils; and they’ve been desperately…

  • How an obese town lost a million pounds weight

    Oklahoma City is a midsized town that had a big problem: It was among the most obese towns in America. Mayor Mick Cornett realized that, to make his city a great place to work and live, it had to become healthier too. Mick Cornett displays a quality not…

  • Website update

    Spending a little time over Christmas renovating the website. It’s getting tired looking – like its owner I hear you cry.

  • Weekly Diary 18th November 2013

    Remembrance Sunday, Ken Weston RIP and the weekly diary

  • Weekly Diary 10th November 2013

    Waterpark under threat and campaigning stories.