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Queensway Inquiry 16 November 2009
 We preview the Inquiry that starts next week and bring you QED's statement about it. David is taking on Goliath - again!....... |
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European Treachery 16 November 2009
 Unusually, we bring our readers a view expressed by someone else. Anne Palmer from Wolverhampton - counterbalance salutes you..... |
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Clifton Ward By-election 31 October 2009
 We bring our readers the runners and riders in the Clifton Ward contest. New names, old hands, and potentially another Lytham Green make this and interesting - if fairly predictable - contest.... |
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Extra-Ordinary Council 30 October 2009
 An un-scheduled Council meeting changes the Constitution yet again, and the Conservative block vote abandons £800,000 worth of planning already done, to go back to the drawing board for another £25,000 worth of resurrected plan to sell off the Town Hall, and build a new Ivory Tower on the car park at the back of the Public Offices. So who voted for that daft idea then....... |
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Banana Republic of Fylde 30 October 2009
 Whilst moves are afoot to consider twinning St Annes with Japan, we ask why not twin Fylde with Zimbabwe. After all, there are just so many similarities.... |
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Faux Scrutiny Committee 24 September 2009
 It was supposed to be a Scrutiny inquiry but it was always going to be a whitewash - and it was - but it was not without heated exchanges and a few surprises. We report on the meeting that saw a call to censure Fylde's current Chief Executive..... |
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Streetscene: Whitewash 20 September 2009
 Monday sees a Scrutiny Committee investigate Streetscene's financial black hole that closed the swimming pool. But guess what... after two years of investigation, no-one's to blame. What a surprise. So will the full council be allowed to debate it? Will St Paul of Elswick shine the searing light of truth into Fylde's dark corners? We make some predictions. |
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Obituary: Cllr Bill Thompson 7 September 2009
 We mourn the passing of one of Fylde Council's most respected Councillors. He treated people fairly and earned their respect by doing so. Never afraid to speak his mind and to vote according to his conscience, Fylde is a lesser place without him. |
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Ashton Beer Gardens? 28 August 2009
 The Commissar wants Ashton Gardens to become a vibrant outdoor leisure centre. So he's breaking his covenant and bringing in the booze. But it's already an Alcohol Free Zone isn't it? And the police confiscate alcohol in the Gardens don't they? Well yes, but in his great scheme of income generation, those are minor details...... |
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HUBble, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble.... 25 August 2009
 Fylde rejects Queensway, and for the moment turns its focus on the M55 Hub as a possible site for most of the 5,500 houses it has to build. Trouble is, Blackpool wants the same land for its Growth Point Scheme that will fund inner Blackpool regeneration. Are things about to get nasty?.... |
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Queensway at Planning 10 August 2009
 Fylde's Development Control Committee prepares to consider Kensington's Queensway Application, but it will be decided by a appeal in November. Officers are preparing to contest the appeal because they would have recommended refusing the application as it stands. So what's going on and what does it mean?..... |
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SHLAA 5 August 2009
 Fylde's Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (where future house building could take place) is considered amid nervousness that it will frighten the horses (that's you and me) if we get to see the 'Urban Extension Maps'. We provide a link to them...... |
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Glowing in the Dark? 28 July 2009
 SITA plan to expand the disposal of low level nuclear waste at Freckleton marsh tip next to the River Ribble. What does this mean for locals? We give our take on what's happening..... |
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Pooling Ideas? 17 July 2009
Exclusive.
 He's emptied the pool but he can't stop the leaks. The Commissar sidelines a plan for a combined pool and leisure scheme that might have seen St Anne's pool re-open in January and opts to 'tender' it out - which will take longer. What's going on? Who made the offer, What did they say, and why didn't other elected Councillors know about it? We have the inside track for our readers..... |
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Porn Pawn? 15 July 2009
 The Chief Executive makes allegations to Fylde's Standards Committee about 'porn' being found on a Councillor's laptop. Cllr Renwick leaves the Politburo Cabinet. He is 'mistakenly' nominated to another committee then removed. A member of staff is understood to be off work. Are there any links between these events? Did anyone jump or were they pushed? As the Standards Committee inquires, we speculate on what could have happened..... |
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Heeley Road - The Endgame? 4 July 2009
 What's the delay? We report on the blog and media musings of the Commissar, published a week or so before the Cabinet had met to make the decision. So what's going on then?..... |
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Snippets - June 09 26 June 2009
 A collection of tit-bits and scraps of news, including: Street Trading - a good decision, Newspaper sales surge in the Kirkham area, Multi Area Agreement put on hold, New cabinet posts, Is the wind of change blowing for the Commissar? St Anne's Pool update. North Beach Car Park - change is in the air here too, as with the Town Hall 'Accommodation Project' - Wherever next?..... |
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Council - June 09 6 June 2009
 Two items on Monday night's Council agenda have far reaching implications for all Fylde residents for the next 20 years or more..... |
