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Lisa Reeves on A View to the Future

2010-03-11T21:27:33+00:00

Cheshire East have just reminded us that you now have just a week to send your response to the Community Strategy Discussion Document. The response deadline is Friday 19th March. If you haven’t already done so, please complete the online response form at http://bit.ly/aXgbnZ.

Mark Shields on Not famous or rich, just jobless

2010-03-11T13:14:32+00:00

Thank you so much, you really do not know how much your comments help. As a family we have taken a big chance to go public, but I was stopped numerous times this morning by total stramgers saying well done. We were quite happy but so much was not shown, i.e. my issues with Job Centre Plus and my letter of apology from the DWP for failings at Wilmslow Job Centre. I will be contacting Lisa to do a follow up feature, and once again thank you all very much. Mark, Maria, Jack xx

Barbara Lovick on Not famous or rich, just jobless

2010-03-11T12:44:37+00:00

I did watch the programme. If you stick together you will get through this rough time. You are obviously a genuine person who wants to support his family, and your wife is a great support to you, but that doesn’t take the feeling of failure away, you are not a scrounger. If you watched the programme and saw the family with 7 children, neither parent employed or likely to be, kids running riot with no discipline or likely to have, can you imagine what the future holds for them? The kids will be on benefit when they get older as well because they are quite happy to be. The father has no need to work as he has over 5 hundred a week coming in in benefit. At least you have instilled in your son the importance of providing for a family, the pride and the dignity that gives you. You will get there, chin up.

John White on Not famous or rich, just jobless

2010-03-10T13:32:45+00:00

This programme covered most aspects of being unemployed the only omissions were in that in most jobs they will not give you an instant answer of whether or not you have been successful in the interview. The other thing I want to highlight is a massive failing with the Government and jobcentres where they will not simply “freeze” jobseekers allowance for those who want to take short-term temporary work. As the rules stand if you accept a temporary job you have to sign off benefits and when that ends and you are unemployed again you have to go through the red tape procedure of applying for jobseekers allowance all over again as if you were a brand new applicant. This really puts benefit claimants including Myself off accepting any temporary work because of all the beaurocracy. If you can just “freeze” your current on-going claim for the period of the temporary work and immediately re-commence on it’s cessation with no detailed form-filling or fresh jobcentre interview this would save the Government millions by getting jobless to accept such work which they now often turn down for that very reason.

Mark Shields on Not famous or rich, just jobless

2010-03-09T16:35:20+00:00

Programme airs tonight and tomorrow, already thanks to Lisa and all at wilmslow.co.uk I have today been invited to a job interview with Virgin Media, this was purely on the strength of the recent feature. I found it has really helped to get the media on board, I have an interview with Heather Stott, on BBC Radio Manchester tomorrow at 11.10 am, so once again thank you so much.

Lisa Reeves on Council Tax increases

2010-03-05T19:47:10+00:00

The total Council Tax rates were agreed at last week�s council meeting where the contributions to Cheshire Police Authority, Cheshire Fire Authority and the Parish or Town Councils were finalised and added to the Council Tax rates previously set by the Cabinet, and detailed above. The precept demand issued by Cheshire Police Authority was �20,981,627 which produced a Band D Council Tax of �144.53. This represents an increase of �3.83 (2.72%). The precept demand issued by Cheshire Fire Authority was �9,643,713 which produced a Band D Council Tax of �66.43. This represents an increase of �1.90 (2.94%). Each Parish Council and the Charter Trustees of Crewe and Macclesfield notified the Council of its precept requirement for the year. The total amount of these special items was �3,039,857 which produced an average Band D Council Tax of �20.94. The council tax levied is made up of these for elements therefore the total Council Tax charges for 2010/11 in Wilmslow are: Band A - �951.53 Band B - �1110.12 Band C - �1268.71 Band D - �1427.30 Band E - �1744.48 Band F - �2061.66 Band G - �2378.83 Band H - �2854.60 The total council tax base for Wilmslow is 14,058.08, this represents the number of properties from which the Council is able to collect Council Tax for 2010/11.

Marilyn Connolly on Local people lose weight with Wii Watchers

2010-03-03T16:26:38+00:00

What a lovely picture - well done to June for organising the event and to Heidi for winning. Thanks also to June for all the guidance and support she shows to her members and for the “fun” elements of the meetings as well as the “serious"side. Thank you June.

Marc Asquith on Hardly calming

2010-02-26T08:16:51+00:00

I love pseudo science. The stats show that humps are the only way of permanently slowing traffic. Hawthorn Lane has been a rat run since I lived in Pownall Park in the 1970s. The traffic calming scheme was widely consulted upon with local residents. It is effective. In the consultation we did provide to all residents info about the cost. The scheme was supported by the majority of residents. I agree we should have fewer signs but ram raiding bollards are usually on private land and not subject to the dictat of the Council.

Alice Hewitt on Growth of "A" board pavement advertising

2010-02-22T09:33:39+00:00

As someone who works in the retail sector, I would like to present the opposing view to this. Surely you can’t fail to notice that more and more small businesses are going under due to a lack of trade. If advertising with the use of an A-board helps to get them more business and help save the jobs of their workers in the process, how is this a bad thing? I work at Oddbins Wine Merchant on Water Lane. We use two large A-boards outside of the store. However, we always ensure that they are safely positioned against the side of the shop, so that they are no obstruction to the pavement. Maybe the suggestion should be that other retailers do similar and change the positioning of their boards rather than banning them altogether.

Sarah Fox on Hardly calming

2010-02-16T19:09:12+00:00

As a resident of Hawthorn Lane, which has very narrow pavements, I do want the speed bumps. But they come at a price and one not mentioned in this article - at least once a week I see a car mount and drive along the pavement, rather than wait at a narrow section. With 3 children under 10, this terrifies me. If more people used the main routes, instead of residential streets, and everyone acted with courtesy whether in a car, on a bike, scooter or on foot, then we could dispense with these so-called “traffic-calming” measures.