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Wallsend Boys Club Flooding
20 Jan 2011
Wallsend Boys Club Flooding
Radar speed monitor signs will soon be appearing on streets across Walkergate ward that are affected by speeding traffic. This is a result of a project between Councillors Pauline and Peter Allen and the Council's highways engineers reported in Walkergate Focus 77.
Many thanks to the hundreds of residents who have already responded to the Metro Station Access and Bus Routes petitions that were printed in Walkergate Focus 78. Residents agree with the calls to improve the steps and ramps at the Metro Station which can be dangerous, particularly in bad weather. Local people also want the buses to return to their old routes - the No 1 & 2 services going along Appletree Gardens and Shields Road; the No 22 along Fossway.
With the early arrival of prolonged Arctic conditions, council staff and others worked around the clock to try to keep things moving and ensure essential services were delivered to local people. Across the city, over 450 people worked to keep main routes open and to keep the footpaths around schools, hospitals, shops and residential homes clear of snow and ice. Care workers trudged around the streets in order to ensure their clients were not neglected, particularly over the Christmas period. Teachers and school staff also ensured that many local schools remained open throughout most of the worst of the weather.
The Guildford Lib Dems are against increasing all parking charges, and the imposition of the evening charge from April 2010, and we are not at all surprised at the level of concern from residents and businesses about the increases.
The deadline for applications to the Big Lottery Funds' Heroes Return 2 programme has been extended by 12 months to 31 January 2012. The scheme provides Lottery funding to help World War II veterans that saw action to take part in commemorative visits with the UK and overseas.