Spring conference day two (Saturday) Saturday of the Spring Conference started with speeches from Diane Holland on the NEC and Peter Watts, the Labour Party’s new general secretary. The conference then moved on to Hazel Blears who spoke on the Party renewal project, and partly on warming the audience up for John Prescott. John Prescott […]
This years Spring Conference is taking place in Blackpool and started off with a study tour looking at regeneration issues around Blackpool and what the Council has done to solve these issues. The main conference itself started with an introduction from Sir Jeremy Beecham, followed by the daughter of the Lord Mayor of Manchester who […]
For ‘normal’ business this week finished on the Thursday because along with Hadfield Councillor Vicky Mann, and Constituency Chair Alan Barrow, I am attending the Labour Party’s Spring Conference in Blackpool. More update to come on this during the weekend. Thursday evening saw a meeting of the High Peak Labour Group in Chinley, a wide […]
Over the last week or so, there have been a number of people contacting both the GRA and myself over rumors about the possible withdrawal of the 239-bus service, which calls at Tameside Hospital. The rumors stem from the end of January when a rival service was set up on the 239 route, running just […]
Saturday and the end of the week, saw some bad luck on the local football front, with both Gamesley’s, first team and the reserve team getting beat in their respective cup matches. The first team by Club AZ, and the reserves by Glossop North End. Wednesday was a change from the usual, with attendance at […]
A quieter week this week, with the first meeting of the week been a meeting of the Northern Tenants Panel on the Tuesday. The meeting which in the absence of the usual Chair, I chaired, covered a range of issue’s relating to housing, including looking at some of the future plans of the Councils ALMO […]
Monday had a meeting of the Environment Select Committee, which was preceded by a slightly odd meeting of the Environment Portfolio Advisory Team, odd because it was without the Portfolio holder who was on holiday !The meeting covered a number of items around refuse collection procurement, licensing, building control and environmental enforcement. However the most […]
With one of my other hat’s on, I subscribe to a weekly newsletter from the trade union group of MP’s, which details current issues and proceeding in parliament which are of interest. In this week’s newsletter one of the Bill’s listed as starting it way through parliament is the ‘Bus Services Bill‘. The bill which […]
In today’s Mid Cheshire 2nd Division League Cup game Gamesley FC beat Lostock Gralam 5 – 1. This now sets up a second round tie against Club AZ, who the team beat 7-0 early in the season !
Sad news about Phil Whitehead MEP who has died from a heart attack (BBC news link).Although Phil had quite a large patch to cover as the only Labour MEP for the region, he did venture up North to our end of the region quite often, and he was always willing to fit in any campaigning […]
