At the meeting of Bolton Council on 20th February, Labour increased Council Tax by an above inflation 3.5%. Funny how this always seems to happen in a year when there are no local elections, but when there are elections we get a low increase or a freeze! Labour is trying to pretend that the […]

Changes to the bin collection rounds have been made in an attempt to save money – the cost of a weekly collection of the grey bins and a fortnightly collection of the green (garden waste), burgundy (glass, cans and plastic bottles) and beige (paper and cardboard) bins is huge. The Council is trying to even up […]

Labour made an announcement in ‘The Bolton News’ on Friday 2nd October that they were making a one-off allocation of £500,000 towards repairs to roads and pavements in residential areas. This is to be paid for from the Dividend from the Council’s part ownership of Manchester Airport.  This is actually the SAME £500,000 that was […]

At a recent meeting of Bolton Council we obtained a promise that the much used cafe (destroyed by a fire following an explosion) would be rebuilt – we had been concerned that it might not have been covered by insurance. We were also promised that there would be full consultation with the Friends of Moss […]