Nicky Davis's blog
The deadline is approaching for final submissions to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England on their draft recommendations. Details of the recommendations are found on their web site – link below.
Stoke-on-Trent College is in dire financial straits. The Sentinel reports that the college finished last year £4.8 million in debt! The Skills Funding Agency has served the college with a financial notice to improve and is to monitor them regularly. The college plans a rapid restructuring to reduce its staffing budget by £4 million; 170 staff are at risk whilst only 60 have volunteered for redundancy.
I wrote the story “SOT Central Parliamentary Candidates Speak to CSAG” as impartially as I could, to be fair to the candidates. But here in this blog I will give you my views. If you don’t care to know then don’t read on.
A public meeting was held in the Stoke-on-Trent council chamber on 27th April at 6pm to hear from people who had decided to stand as candidates in the local elections not aligned to political parties. Harry Smallwood chaired the meeting. Four people gave brief talks:
Mervin Smith’s election leaflet, promoted by Mark Meredith, claims after all this time that labour locally want a school on the Mitchell site and another for Longton. After all these years driving forward plans to bulldoze Mitchell High School, Labour at the last minute change their tune in a desperate bid for support.
We have in Trentham received our first leaflet for the local election in May, from Alan Alcock the Libdem candidate. What spin with regard to the Libdems view of Trentham High School!
On Tuesday 23rd February Stoke-on-Trent MPs Mark Fisher and Rob Flello met with schools minister Vernon Coaker, who reiterated a previous statement that a two school solution, instead of the currently planned merger of Mitchell and Edensor, would be completely acceptable, provided that it came wi
AUDIO INTERVIEWS NOW ONLINE! The purpose of this blog is to present an impartial account of what happened at the full council meeting. Details of the budget itself can be found in the reports pack for the meeting in the link below. Cllr MICK SALIH (Non-Aligned Group) asked as a point of information when the council sets the budget do all members present have not to be in arrears with their council tax?
The Meadow Lane estate is in Trentham, just North of Longton Road, at the border with the current Blurton ward, separated from it by the railway line. On 4th January 2010 a public meeting was held at Trentham High School, organised by ordinary residents in the Meadow Lane area of Trentham, about the council’s views on new ward boundaries.
