If you are fed up with Labour and are thinking about voting Tory think again, you might get more than you bargained for. It was they who set in train the deregulation and privatisation which has led to  the re-carving of the UK landscape. The peaks of great wealth have grown ever higher, rising up [...]

Willenhall Partnership’s Gating Working Group met last night (Wednesday 24th September 2008). It’s remit was to scrutinise the council’s Draft Public Rights of Way policy and how it might help to resolve some long standing problems around the many walkways which wind their way through Willenhall. The working group was set up at the Partnership’s meeting in [...]

Willenhall’s Local Neighbourhood Partnership begins a series of fact finding meetings tomorrow (Wednesday) on the thorny issue of walkways. Should access be limited where anti social behaviour adversely affects those who live nearby? If you live in the Willenhall area and have a view on this subject Lib Dem cllr Ian Shires and his team [...]

The Lib Dem Conference in Bournemouth was the best yet, with a record attendance and great speeches – especially from Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Chris Huhne. Go to the link to the Liberal Democrats and click on the conference section for more details.Nick’s speech was the highlight of the Conference. The key points from [...]

Willenhall LNP’s next meeting is on Tuesday 30th September at 6pm. it will meet at Oakwood Lodge, Chaucer Avenue, Short Heath, Willenhall, WV12 5JN. It is a public meeting so if you live in Willenhall, or you have an interest in the area, feel free to come along. There is a public forum on the agenda scheduled [...]

The future of the Locksmith’s House in New Road, Willenhall remains in the balance in-spite of the defeat of a recent planning application to demolish it and remove it brick by brick from its traditional home to Dudley’s “Black Country Living Museum” reports Lib Dem cllr Ian Shires. The crisis over the Locksmith’s House came to [...]

Tory councillors voted against giving residents a say in how their Council Tax is spent. The decision was taken at a meeting of Walsall’s full council on the 8th September.  At the same meeting they voted against increasing the cash given to Local Neighbourhood Partnerships (LNPs) such as the one in Willenhall in order to enable them [...]

Labour’s answer to the energy crisis seems to be centred around advice to consumers on how to make their homes more energy efficient. Lag your lofts folks, that’s Hilary Benn’s answer to your misery. “Whilst we’re lagging our lofts the energy companies are lagging their bank accounts” said Walsall’s LibDem Group Leader Cllr Ian Shires. [...]