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Council fail to spend £0.5 million on road repairs

Labour run Blackburn with Darwen Council have been condemned for failing to spend £500,000 on much needed road repairs. Lib Dem Leader Cllr. David Foster said, "The Labour Leader announced in a blaze of publicity last July that they were going to spend an extra £1 million on repaiting potholes. Now we find that they have not been able to spend all of this money. In fact they have only spent half of it. There are roads in every part of our borough that are in desparate need of repair but this council has not been able to do them. They complain of budget cuts but when they have the money they are not competent enough to spend it."

7 Feb 2012
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Dave Hodgson with Family Historian Paul Wilkins at Bedford Central Library

Catching the Family History Bug in Borough Libraries!

The family history information and taster session I attended at Bedford Central Library on Saturday really has whetted my appetite to find out more. Amongst the wide range of things I discovered in the short session I enjoyed are that a Great Grandmother was in the workhouse, while a Great Great Grandfather was a station master in Scotland. I also discovered previously unknown links to various parts of the country, including the West Midlands.

7 Feb 2012
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