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Weekly Update 31st January 2011
Budget under fire Monday Met with Theresa Grant and Ian Duncan to discuss the budget for Transformation and Resources. I’m particularly concerned about: Tuesday I wasn’t able to make it to Trafford Healthcare Trust Board. I attended a school governors committee meeting.I also withdrew my objection to the…
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Posh And Posher
I watched last night’s programme from Andrew Neil with interest and would recommend it. The former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times newspaper looked at the increasingly narrow social spectrum from which our MPs are drawn. He exposed the similar route to parliament taken by David and Ed…
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Weekly Update 24th January 2011
Budget Process Begins Trafford’s Draft Budget – On the Agends for Exec It’s been well aired that Local Government is taking the biggest hit in the Conservative Govt’s attack on public services. Trafford. However, the Tory Govt has targeted the most deprived areas, so in comparative terms we…
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Weekly Update 17th January
Catching up Barton Power Plant March Urmston had its first demonstration/march in forty years or so with the Clean-air march against the incinerator. It was great to see so many good-folk taking a stand. I’ve been on many marches, whether it be supporting Lostock College against closure, anti-Iraq…
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Weekly Update 10th January 2011
Picking up after the Christmas and New Year lull It wasn’t completely without council business over Christmas. I received the usual bits of casework and of course the Barton Biomass Plant consultation period was running throughout. I’ve been pursuing a Health Impact Assessment on the plant through the…
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Environment Agency Presentation on BREP
I attended a presentation from the Environment Agency last night along with Labour colleagues and other councillors. The presentation also included an update from Simon Castle, Trafford’s Chief Planning Officer. I’ll deal with Simon’s presentation first: Presentation from Environment Agency The slides from last night’s presentation will be…