Derbyshire Police are starting a consultation process on what residents within Derbyshire want the Police to focus on during the coming year. The questions ask local residents to prioritise policing themes such as reducing crime, drugs, road safety and community policing, these priorities as determined by local residents will then be used set the objectives […]
Yesterday I attended a ‘multi agency’ meeting, which had been organised by the Police, to look into what additional measurers could be taken to tackle some of the continuing problem around anti social behaviour on the estate. The reason I say, ‘additional’ measurers is because although it appears at times that little is been done […]
Friday evening saw members of the Labour Party from across the High Peak descend on Glossop Labour Club, for a member’s question time session with Tom Levitt MP and Glenis Willmott MEP. An interesting two hours with a wide range of topics been covered from education, to recycling and most things in between. There was […]
Today was the first collection since Christmas, of the green box’s, bags and paper sacks. However there has been so much to collect, the recycling team have not been able to collect everything, and residents are been advised by the council’s call centre to leave out there boxes, and they will be collected tomorrow. If […]
Or as it should be this week, lack of football news with no games taking place for either the first team or reserves ! Hopefully normal service should be resumed next week with the first team at home to Barnton and the reserves having the league cup match away to Poynton Reserves.
Last October, I took part in and reported on the successful interviews for a replacement provider for the dental service running in the clinic on Winster Mews. It was expected that pending the various contact issue’s etc, that the new service would start early this year. However after checking with the Tameside and Glossop PCT […]
Today (Monday) see the start of the new programme of activities for the Gamesley Community Centre. Full details of the programme area available from the centre (telephone 01457 869038) or on the web at : http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/leisure/gamesley/ As a flavour of the new programme, some of the new session for 2007 are : Tums and Bums […]
Tomorrow (Tuesday) will see a consultation taking place on 3 designs to replace existing equipment at the Edale Close Play Area. The chosen design from the 3 will see approximately £20,000 plus some additional funding from the North Area Tenants Panel spent on updating / replacing the equipment. The consultation is running all day, with […]
The recent news about Ruth Kelly and her education choices, splits my view in a numbers of ways, because whilst I’m not quite in the Kelly should go crowd, for breaching a traditional Labour taboo. I do hold a similar view to fellow Labour blogger Councillor Luke Akehurst who comments that’s he’s unimpressed and that […]
As reported previously, Tuesday 19th December saw the pre Christmas Council Meeting. The majority of the Council supported the motion on fairtrade, with a number of members from the various political groups speaking in favour. However not everyone in attendance at the meeting was full of ‘Christmas spirit’ with rumour’s going round about troubles in […]