I’ve now being advised by the council that the bins will now be completed / emptied on Saturday. The delay I’m advised is due to the collections being prioritised in an area they haven’t done since before Christmas.

Following on from the annoucement that Tom Levitt MP was standing down the local Labour Party has being going through the process to look for our replacement candidate. We’re part way through that process, and coming up in the next few week’s there will be a number of opportunities to speak too and question the […]

The latest information on bin collections is that they are currently running about half a day behind and that the advice to local residents on Gamesley is to leave your bin out and if it has not been emptied so far today (Thursday) it will be emptied by the end of tommorow (Friday). Any further […]

Today’s Sun newspaper carries a special centre page spread investigating the extent of youth unemployment across the UK. It includes such statements as 94% of school leavers think it will be hard to get job matching qualifications, along with the figure of 925,000 young people across the UK being unemployed, reported as the second highest […]

A quick BaBloPoMo post today, just following up on a link to an earlier story. A few days ago I mentioned about the recent book by Peter Watt former general secretary of the labour party, well in response to that labour blogger Hopi Sen wrote a reply based on the book : http://hopisen.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/my-book-deal/ Spot on, […]

It was disappointing that local Police yesterday needed to send the following ringmaster alert round : On the 6th January 2010, Gamesley Community Primary School was broken into twice. On both occasions laptop computers were stolen. A number of other laptop computers have been stolen from properties/premises on Gamesley over the last weeks as well. We […]

SnowClearJan2010 005 Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. After checking with officer’s at the council, last week I advised that no gritting etc was been done on the estate’s footpaths as the instructions received had prioritised elsewhere within the High Peak. Not been advised of any changes, after been contacted at the weekend over who had gritted […]

As most services have returned to normal this will be the last buses update for now unless the weather turns worse and causes further problems to services Speedwell Buses – All services are running to there normal route and doing there best to keep to time Stagecoach – 237 Now operating normal 237 route between […]

Earlier today Labour’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has announced that 270,000 low income families will receive a free computer along with free broadband access for a year. The scheme know as Home Access is a new government drive which helps low income families get access to a computer and the internet to get online at […]

Speedwell Buses 341 – Simmondley and parts of Hattersley and Backbower are still quite icy. We will assess these parts of the route again later. Other than this 341 will run to normal timetable Speedwell Buses 397 – will not operate via Dinting Road but will use the A57Speedwell Buses 394 – service is running […]