SCHOOLS IN BLACKPOOL AND CLEVELEYS could be forced to hand up to £300,000 every year under a new Government “tax” on prudent head teachers. In a little-noticed move, the Government wants as many as 20,000 primary, secondary and special schools to surrender cash to cash-strapped local authorities. Under the plan, any school with extra money
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I welcome, along with all local residents, the decision to turn down Canatxx’s plans. Given the strength of local opposition, I am amazed it has taken five years to put a stop to this. 1.3m tonnes of natural gas to be stored under the Wyre estuary, with brine discharges into the sea off Rossall would
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Sorry – been away, so posts ground to a halt. But I’m back now, just in time to pass comment on one of my ‘favourite’ sets of annual statistics. The Centre for Economic & Business Research do an annual analysis of Government spending by region, and it each year it shocks me anew. This year,
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So it’s over. Part of me says “Thank goodness” as I feel exhausted! Running the social action project on the one hand in Grange Park, and racing up and down to the Winter Gdns for TV interviews that always got cancelled by the time I got there. I also got to pen the “Livewire” column
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