£500,000 road money not spent due to incompetence
Blackburn Council announced £1m extra for road repairs in July last year. They have now admitted they can only spend half this money. When questioned by Lib Dem Group Leader Cllr David Foster Labour…
Blackburn Council announced £1m extra for road repairs in July last year. They have now admitted they can only spend half this money. When questioned by Lib Dem Group Leader Cllr David Foster Labour…
Public opinion may be converging around a fusion of economic competence and social justice - in Lib Dem eyes, their natural territory. The current Lib Dem positioning of themselves as more…
Free insulation for homes in Blackburn with Darwen
Labour run Blackburn with Darwen Council have been condemned for failing to spend £500,000 on much needed road repairs. Lib Dem Leader Cllr. David Foster said, "The Labour Leader announced in a blaze…
The biggest drive to encourage firms to take on apprentices is due to begin, with more than 500 events across the UK and pledges of hundreds of new training places.
Today (6 Feb) sees the opening of Blackburn with Darwen's Youth Zone. It will be opened this afternoon by Prince Edward. It is a state of the art Youth Centre The centre should be fully open in April…
Darwen Town Centre was in chaos on Saturday evening following the afternoon snowfall. At 7:00 pm traffic in the centre was barely moving as cars struggled to get up Bolton Rd. Some cars did not move…
Good news for the residents of Bull Hill, Darwen. They have had to put up with their road being in darkness for a long time now. At last there is some "light at the end of the tunnel". Following up…
The Mayors of both Blackburn with Darwen and Darwen Town Council officially opened the recently refurbished Darwen Tower. The tower was opened in 1898 but in 2010 the dome blew off in galeforce…
The Council are now working to tackle the problem of water draining across the road at Bull Hill.