SnowothJan2010 003 Yesterday I advised that High Peak Borough Council had agreed with the county council to utilise staff to do some pavement gritting as directed by the county council. I expressed concern that whilst the main town centres were listed within the areas that would be considered and gritting various areas including Gamesley were […]

At the recent pre Christmas full council meeting, one of the reports considered and approved by the council was the Joint Consultation and Engagement Strategy. Within the document it details the plans for a review of the area forums which I commented was much needed with the last meeting in Glossopdale seeing 2 or 3 […]

As you can see the photo’s that I’ve uploaded to flickr that were taken around Gamesley today, it’s been another poor day in terms of a gritting response from either of the council’s. As flagged up during today no buses were able to run on the estate due to the state of the ring road, […]

Speedwell have advised that due to problems in Broadbottom there are currently no buses running on service 239/341, however the 394 is running but as previously mentioned is not running round the estate at current but is running up / down Glossop Road.

From details on the radio etc so far today, all of the local Primary schools (St Margaret’s, Gamesley, Dinting, Charlesworth) are open as normal. However St Philip Howard and Glossopdale are both closed.In terms of buses Speedwell have advised that they are currently not running around the estate due to road conditions – I’m awaiting […]

Over the Christmas period and in recent days there have been a number of problems and complaints raised with me (and the other Cllr Mckeown) with regards to the gritting that has been done locally. This year the general theme of these comments has been on how poor the service has been with at least […]

Or at least that was the plan, to get part of Christmas (in a sense) off to the ‘best’ of starts by doing something nice. The plan anyhow was to overcome my general fear of needles and give blood, so in the run up to Christmas I planned to attend the blood donor’s session that […]

 For a number of years, I’ve subscribed to and used the (free) services of last.fm. Last.fm is essentially a logging service which via a program that you download from there site log’s music that you play either on the computer or via Ipod’s etc and then suggests music that may like from the tracks you’ve […]

Whilst possibly sounding like some sort of condition or something NaBloPoMo, or National Blog Posting Month to give it, its full title, is actually an initiative set up to encourage blog posting, originally running once a year in November, it now runs all year round, with the simple aim to take part been that you […]

Both of the Cllr Mckeown’s (Bob and Anthony) and family would like to wish all local’s a  Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year !! May 2010 and the new decade bring all that you want and hope for.