Latest news stories from Hyperlocal sites tagged with 'Blackpool' :: Page 2
April 5 2011, 11.10AM Philtheone.com
Tyson knocked out as Crystal Road properties are condemned
CONTROVERSIAL PROPERTIES on Crystal Road now look set to be demolished despite millions of pounds of taxpayers' money being spent on their purchase...
March 16 2011, 8.58PM Philtheone.com
Local Election Leaflet: Labour’s five pledges
LABOUR FIRE the first shots in the local elections with some hard hitting leaflets exposing their opponents, but do they have the policies to win o...
March 14 2011, 11.19PM Philtheone.com
The minimum price of unhealthy demise
CLLR MRS Fowler hits the headlines today as she takes stern action to kerb the latest modern danger to society - binge drinking.
March 9 2011, 1.08PM Philtheone.com
Red alert: Labour to field at least 5 husband and wife teams in the local elections
ON THEIR website, the Blackpool Labour party have published a list of their candidates for the upcoming May elections, and this includes a series o...
March 7 2011, 9.28PM
Watch Blackpool vs Nottingham Forest Online Free live Steaming Now For Free!
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March 3 2011, 3.23PM Philtheone.com
Blast from the past: A Postcard From Blackpool
CHECK OUT a slice of Blackpool's history at this brilliant website.
March 2 2011, 11.07AM Philtheone.com
Mayor elect Joan Greenhalgh axed by Simon Blackburn
LABOUR'S CLIFTON ward councillor and mayor elect Joan Greenhalgh has been brutally axed by her party leader in what appears to be a late attempt to...
March 2 2011, 9.48AM Philtheone.com
Blackpool’s Labour leader lives it up on expenses
HE BAILED out a library in Park with his Brunswick ward budget, and has been exposed in the town hall for living a life of luxury on expenses. Is S...
February 25 2011, 12.42PM Philtheone.com
Market Street chaos: a tragedy waiting to happen
AS ANYONE would anticipate following the closure of a major thoroughfare between the north and south of town and gridlock everywhere, emergency ser...
February 25 2011, 10.21AM Philtheone.com
Diversion routes for Promenade closure 28th Feb – 15th July
HERE ARE the diversion routes for the impending 5-month Promenade closure between Chapel Street and Talbot Square. Southbound town centre traffic W...
February 24 2011, 11.05AM Philtheone.com
Ingthorpe candidate claims allowances “barely cover†costs
PROSPECTIVE COUNCILLOR Sheila Haskett takes a slightly different view to everyone else when it comes to expenses and allowances.
February 24 2011, 8.42AM Philtheone.com
Crossing of Death bridge collapses
RADIO WAVE are this morning reporting that buses running down Lytham Road will have to be rerouted down Bond Street and Watson Road after the bridg...
February 22 2011, 9.19AM Philtheone.com
Mother blames world for 13-year-old booze romp
IF I had gone out when I was barely a teenager and got so tanked up I required hospital treatment, my parents would probably have put me to sleep f...
February 17 2011, 9.07PM Philtheone.com
Oh, just build the bloody houses
IN MAY 2008, Blackpool Airport was sold to construction firm Balfour Beatty for £14m. In November 2008, as only the third UK airport to do it, the...
February 15 2011, 1.14PM Philtheone.com
Callow reports Philtheone for disabled hate crime
IN A bizarre twist to my previous article about the leafleting campaign which local taxi drivers are set to push forward with, today I received a t...
February 14 2011, 10.25AM Philtheone.com
Congestion campaign ready to go despite council objections
AS CLLR Callow experiences the woes of St. John's, Blackpool cabbies are set to launch a leafletting campaign slamming the congestion his council h...
February 10 2011, 5.51PM Philtheone.com
Park Road closed northbound 12-13th February 2011
A DAMAGED sewer that is causing raw sewage to flood into a property on Park Road is set to be repaired on the weekend of the 12th and 13th of Febru...
February 10 2011, 5.39PM Philtheone.com
Lack of experience sends Blackpool backwards
I AM not the wisest owl in the barn by any means, but I have always assumed that public sector employees being paid six and seven figure salaries m...
February 7 2011, 11.08AM Philtheone.com
Revoe road closures 14th Feb 2011-25th March 2011
NONE OF us like the dull thud and resultant jolt as our vehicles traverse the nasty cancer of speed humps coursing through Blackpool’s road i...
February 7 2011, 10.39AM Philtheone.com
Labour MPs mock Paul Maynard’s disability
PAUL MAYNARD has hit the national press in what could be described as an exposé of the old-fashioned, out of touch attitudes that are still boilin...
February 2 2011, 2.01PM Philtheone.com
“Crossing of Death†claims first casualty
THE BLOODY-MINDED, ivory tower approach of Blackpool council in relation to the roads has struck once again after a pensioner was smashed into by a...
January 31 2011, 12.41PM Philtheone.com
Project 30
PROJECT 30 is the latest moniker dreamt up by the council to represent their Latest Big Thing, and you may start seeing the name in the local newsp...
January 30 2011, 1.46PM Philtheone.com
Blackpool Conservative manifesto 2007 – has Callow delivered?
NO SOONER was it mentioned on here, this lovely document was blasting through mainframes and datacentres only to land in my grateful mailbox. We ca...
January 26 2011, 12.48PM Philtheone.com
Arson at Great Places’ flat project
THE SHADOWLANDS Hotel forms one third of the big Blackpool Council sell-off of property for £1, having cost taxpayers over £500,000 last year. Ac...
January 25 2011, 4.21PM Philtheone.com
Plan A
IF A racehorse wins a lot of races and prize money for its owner, its value as a breeding partner increases proportionally. If a family need the us...
January 25 2011, 9.37AM Philtheone.com
Easy way for Blackpool Council to save money
TAKE A room, fill it up with councillors, add in the council executive for good measure, and top up with their personal assistants and a legal team...
January 23 2011, 11.00AM Philtheone.com
Up the Blackpool Fylde & Wyre Credit Union
ALEX ROSS at the Gasjet has today printed a rather interesting summary of a topic discussed at the council meeting on Wednesday night. The article ...
January 20 2011, 5.11PM Philtheone.com
Oink oink, both Callows have swine flu
IAN FOWLER last night made the revelation that both Peter Callow and Maxine Callow are holed up in their South Park Drive residence hammering Tamif...
January 20 2011, 12.09PM Philtheone.com
Labour calls to reform Area Forums – but not online
AT THE full council meeting at the town hall last night, Labour councillor Gary Coleman tossed quite a few issues into the bullring and one of thes...
January 17 2011, 2.43PM Philtheone.com
Talbot Gateway offices will pay for themselves – over 207 years
CARDS ON the table I think the Talbot Gateway is a nonsense plan created by dreamers who are devoid of any idea what Blackpool really needs. Many o...
