Tonight (Tuesday) sees the last meeting of the council's executive beforesummer items up for discussion includes reports on capital expenditure subgroup, annual report on treasury management and prudential indicators alongwith updates on the strategic alliance, and financial out turn. The agenda also includes a report on approving the designated places orderfor Gamesley and Glossop, which […]
St Margaret's says a fond farewell to Mrs Barton this week who is retiringafter a good few years at the school, including teaching my younger brotherRob. A celebration prior to the start of a well earned retirement that I'm surewill be well attended is taking place on Wednesday night with entertainmentbeen provided by a Band […]
This Wednesday and Thursday (16th / 17th July) sees a strike by localgovernment workers who are in the Unison union take place. All council offices will be closed on the two days but the council's callcentre will be open from 8.00pm until 6.00pm with calls been fielded as bestas possible to deal with urgent queries […]
Next Wednesday will see a meeting of the sub committee looking at theManchester Congestion Charge. With the consultation process now underway andfurther details of the scheme now available, we will have more details onboth the costs and whether the possible benefits of the scheme (if thedecision is taken to go forward with it) will benefit […]
Last Wednesday evening saw the end of term governor's meeting, a good rangeof reports and encouraging news for the new school year. Details of the retirement bash for Mrs Barton who is leaving the schoolafter a number of years were advised, along with discussions on when to holda celebration for the 40th anniversary of the […]
Last Saturday saw this month's councillor's surgery along with Tom LevittMP, not too many callers, but enough to keep us busy. Sunday morning we engaged with a spot of door knocking on the estate againwith Tom Levitt MP, a good range of issues and concerns brought up, rangingfrom housing issues to the buses.
Starting on Friday (18th July) night with the 60's fashion show (tickets andfurther details from Pat on 01457 858035), are a number of events tocelebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Gamesley Estate. This is followed by full day of events on the Saturday starting with ahealth walk at 9.30 from the Geoffrey Allen Centre, followed […]
I spent last weekend in Nottingham attending the East Midlands Labour Partyregional conference. An interesting weekend in a good fairly new venue atNottingham University discussing a whole range of issues with 'comrades' oldand new from across the region. As a change to some of the policy issues locally which tend to look towardsManchester, the concentration […]
Local Labour Party members should by now have received there ballot papersfor the election of a number of national posts including members of thenational executive committee and national treasurer. Members get 6 votes for the national executive committee, and when the HighPeak Labour Party considered those requesting nominations for the variousposts we nominated Peter Wheeler […]
Last weekend (5th / 6th July) saw a variety of events to celebrateInternational Co-operative Day and the 60th Anniversary of the start of theNHS (National Health Service) International Co-operative Day aims to celebrate the wide diversity ofco-op's across the world, and was this year themed on 'Confronting ClimateChange through Co-operative Enterprise'. Something which UK co-operativeshave […]