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.
All council and High Peak Community Housing Offices will close at 1.00pm onChristmas Eve and will then reopen fully on Monday 4th January. Glossop Town Hall will however be open on the 29th/30th/31st between 9.00am and 4.30pmFor most enquiries you can contact the Council’s Call Centre which will be open in between (29th / 30th […]
Whilst it’s good to hear of the mentions from the Glossop website and BBC News of the good work of Glossop Mountain Rescue, several local residents have commented that it was a shame to hear that they weren’t able to fit the streets of Gamesley into to the annual tour around Glossopdale with Santa.
Well done to Centerbus of who local operator Bowers are part of, for their practical use of twitter to provide up to date information on how their services are running. I’m not necessarily sure of how many of their passengers locally are making use of the service, but I noticed it today and it was […]
GlossopCaravans 005 Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck.As many local’s will be aware at just after 8.00pm yesterday (Monday), the emergency services were called to a fire at the 7 acre Glossop Caravans site at Brookfield on the A57.Initial reports were that a warehouse on the site was on fire, but on arrival crews discovered other building […]