First of all many thanks to the 350 people who voted Lib Dem  in the Borough and the 1116 who voted the same in the County. Alas we were 21 short of the winning Caleb Tomlinson and 5 of the Tory who came second . You will have noticed that the campaign was against the […]

Not the most popular topic in England but here I wanted to step out of party politics and give you my personal view as someone who is pro Europe and takes an interest in European matters. We have 8 MEPs to elect and a whole variety of parties to chose from including Nick Griffin of […]

The last election was of course a disaster for Lib Dems in Leyland and we found ourselves with 45 out of 50 odd councillors Tory and only one Lib Dem from Penwortham. The task was to try and provide an opposition and keep the Lib Dem flag flying. The solution was the fact that the […]

When the Waste plant was proposed the County Council granted itself planning permission. Local protesters got together and formed RAWS to oppose the plant. They took Legal Advice and astonishingly got positive advice for a Judicial review of the decision. Inevitably this was refused and of course the Plant is now well on the way […]

Let us stretch your mind back to the Election in 2007. You may remember that the Tories promised that if they won they would get the Council to pay for the cost of the the RAWS (Residents against the Waste Site) appeal against the  planning permission. In the end it turned out that the Council  […]

Your Focus team campaigned for South Ribble to have  Councillor’s attendance records available for public inspection see:-http://egenda.southribble.gov.uk/akssribble/users/public/admin/main.pl?op=ListCurrentMembers You will see that Linda Williams  has an 87%  and Madge Suthers has 61% record of service. Interestingly Madges’ worst meeting seems to be Leyland East  Area Committee where she has only managed one attendance. This is the […]

£60000 is what the Tories propose to be spent on this. The main benefit is that visiting salesmen will be able to access their home networks and do Google searches from their cars parked on Hough Lane. Useful but is it worth spending that money now. Will they come to Leyland because they can use their PDAs? Will […]

Is this now off the agenda? its begining to look like it. Cllr Michael Green in Council on Wednesday said he and his committee would look into this “if there was any sign of public demand” How exactly we measure that demand he did not say. In the same meeting labour were bemoaning the loss […]

This is what was suggested at the Leyland East Area committee in response to long concerns by Moss lane residents who were concerned over the use of Bow Brook/Moss lane as a rat run from Farington to the M6. This was proposed in an informal report prepared by South Ribble officers. Other suggestions were to […]

Last night at Cabinet  Tory porfolio holder Peter Mullineaux in an answer to Focus Rep Derek Forrest said that there was no prospect of a weekly residual collection.  His leader Margaret Smith pointed out quite rightly that the election literature  only said they would look into the feasability of such a scheme. What she did […]