An important meeting last week was with Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS’ clinical director, and the rest of his team who are responsible for the investigation into the ‘higher than average’ mortality rates at the Blackpool Vic. This a tricky area, and it is easy for scare stories to get out of control, so my
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Charlie Cairoli & Blackpool in the sunshine!   Have just returned today from a soggy Stanley Park rose gardens to witness the unveiling of the statue of Charlie Cairoli – exactly where his family wanted the statue, which has captured him superbly, to be. Sadly, the weather hasn’t quite lived up to the last two
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Dear Resident,   A brief set of notes for the end of the Easter break, with some news on some long-running issues:   Halite/Canatxx   Whatever they choose to call themselves, I trust residents will be as relieved as I am that the threat of underground gas storage in the Preesall salt caverns has been
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Dear Resident, As the thermometer in the car tantalisingly hovered at 9.5 degrees, and resolutely refused to hit double figures, I mused on how ‘this time last year’ we were in a mini-heat wave. Nonetheless, a good strong dose of sunshine always puts the Fylde Coast at its best, and as I drove up the
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There is a danger inherent in being an MP that you are always questing after novelty, looking for the ‘next big thing’ to sink your teeth into, and therefore you sometimes forget issues you have done a lot of work on in the past. I often think of it as being akin to ‘life is
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When the sun is shining on the Fylde Coast, as it was for part of the weekend, a small hope stirs in the heart that maybe spring is just around the corner, that a sharp frost won’t see off the crocuses or stifle the nascent daffodils… The sunshine also meant I unveiled my new placard
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E-petitions are a great idea, aren’t they? Managing them is less easy. As you may well know, I launched one last week on the Blackpool Council website calling for a debate on strategic transport planning. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised that some regarded it as political mischief-making, even though I tried to make
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There will come a point at which opening my Letter from Westminster with the words ‘another busy week’ will become a cliché. I am sure the week will come in life when I am not busy, but for the moment, the relentless rush of events, ideas, problems, cases and everything else always seems to exceed
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Over the last few weeks and months I have had many people speak to me about their frustration to get around Blackpool and the wider Fylde Coast. I am equally frustrated as I have heard stories about people not being able to get to job interviews as its take over an hour to get from
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Another week, another bewildering range of issues to confront. With my PPS hat on, we’re looking in greater detail at how we expand our ‘red tape challenge’ and focus on enforcement so that it closely aligns with what individual businesses are experiencing. For example, we may decide to look at all the regulation that a
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