Local Liberal Democrats have announced that Alan Dean will be their candidate for the fothcoming by-election in Mill Hill, Blackburn. The election has been caused by the resignation of the Labour…
Darwen Town Council website has been criticised for not knowing who their Town Councillors are. On their website it lists as the Whitehall Town Councillors, David & Karimeh Foster. In fact they…
The people of Darwen were given the chance to question their prospective MPs last night, ahead of the general election on 7th May. The hustings meeting, which was held at the Central United Reformed…
Westminster-based political communications and media relations agency The Whitehouse Consultancy has re-launched an online tool, de-mob, that aims to encourage young voters to engage with the issues…
Cllr David Foster was pleased to hear that the application fro a wind turbine near Bull Hill has now been withdrawn. Many local people objected to the scheme and now the developers have decided to…
From next September every child in infant school in England will get free school meals, saving families around £437 a year.
Blackburn with Darwen Council is about to consult on new dog control orders. The Council should be pub,lishing these officially in the next few weeks and you have 28 days to comment on them before a…
The number of households where no one is in work has fallen to an alltime low. Figures released by the Office of National Statistics shows that there are 3.5 million housholds where nobody is in…
Local Lib Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle, MP for Burnley, voted against the government on Thursday night. Nine Liberal Democrat MPs opposed the government's motion on using force in response to the gas…
Transdev have announced changes to bus routes from 1 September.
