I was pleased to welcome George Osborne to Thornton-Cleveleys yesterday. He joined me to visit an excellent local firm, Addison Projects, who do precision engineering. They have a wide range of clients from the aerospace sector to Formula One cars and even Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Mr Osborne had a short presentation on the firm’s development
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I’m just back from Moor Park Primary and a meeting of residents the Carleton Lodge Farm Estate (aka the Herb Gardens because all the road names are herbs) which nestles between Moor Park Primary and the crematorium. The two ward councillors Steve Houghton and Julian Mineur were holding the meeting to discuss with residents a
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There are some schools in Blackpool that do seem to get a bad press. Beacon Hill is one of them – it’s a National Challenge school, for example, which means they struggle to hit the 30% getting Grades C or above in 5 GCSEs including maths and English. Equally, I knew what a lot of
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One of the more impressive parts of Barack Obama’s inauguration speech was his promise to assess the effectiveness of government spending programmes, and stop those that weren’t achieving what they were meant to achieve. Well here’s an example of that from the UK. The aim of the Government’s scheme was to place some 2,000 ‘vulnerable
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