Tonight saw the first meeting of the council’s executive since the recent council elections. Amongst the items of business were the allocation of portfolio’s (ie what area’s each exec member will be responsible for) and the details of my portfolio as deputy leader and executive member for Community Services are as follows : · Councillor […]

Following on from a number of calls towards the end of last week and on Saturday, I contacted Speedwell to find out what was happening with the 239 Service, which whilst been withdrawn from the end of Saturday 11th June should still be running at current. They have advised that due to arrangement made by […]

Some more potential word’s of wisdom to new councillor’s, this time from near neighbour Cllr Tim of Barnsley. Cllr Tim normally blog’s here and is on twitter at www.twitter.com/cllrtim , but these word’s of wisdom / top tips for new councillor’s appear on the Guardian’s local government network blog and can be viewed by clicking […]

I’ll shortly by setting out along with County Councillor Dave Wilcox a new list of surgeries, however in the meantime you can keep / get in touch with me as your local councillor via any of the following : Email Newsletter : You can sign up for a weekly email newsletter by using the box […]

Cllr Caitlin Bisknell with the new exec Wednesday evening saw the first full council meeting of the new council since the recent elections and as opposed to the results of the last two High Peak Borough Council elections, which saw Labour fall short of the number to take control of the council, this time we […]