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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…
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BioMass – Reply from Trafford’s Director of Public Heal
I have received a reply from the Director of Public Health who has made enquiries of the Health Protection Agency. The reply infers the strong causality between airborne pollution and reduced life expectancy of 6months per newborn baby nationally (Clearly this will be more where particulate pollution is…
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Dave’s Advertiser Column
I’ve lived near Trafford General Hospital all my life. The hospital was opened as Park Hospital by Labour’s Aneurin Bevan on July 5 1948 and we can all feel proud of what was set in motion that day – a National Health Service, the first in the world…