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Change of location for Christmas Market

December 14, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

Due to expected dodgy weather (bad weather, here in Ramsbottom, who’d a thought it?!) the Ramsbottom Christmas Market event is being moved inside St Pauls Church as opposed to taking place on the gardens in front.

There will still be all the Christmassy fun to be had, but it will now be that little bit warmer.

This is taking place tomorrow on the 15th of December inside St Pauls.

There is also the craft fair happening inside the Civic Hall too. I was there today, lots of things on offer, some you won’t have seen at the monthly farmers markets.

Ramsbottom Christmas Market

General Election Results for Bury North

December 13, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

It feels like it’s becoming almost a yearly event, our country has had yet another election allowing us to cast our votes, and the results are in.

Bury North was one of the closest fought constituencies with a recount called and the final total only being announced in the last few hours.

Conservative Party 21,660
Labour Party 21,555
Green Party 802
Liberal Democrat Party 1584
Brexit Party 1240

This means James Daly is our new Conservative MP for Bury North.

Where are the polling stations in Ramsbottom?

December 11, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

As you are no doubt aware, we’ve got another general election on the 12th of December 2019.

There are a variety of polling stations around Ramsbottom and which one you need to go to will be written on your polling card, however you can use the polling station finder by entering your postcode to look it up.

However you choose to vote, please do go out and vote if you are able to.

Ramsbottom Polling Stations

Polling district	Polling place
AA	The Eagle and Child, Whalley Road
AB	Foundation Unit, Peel Brow School, Fir Street
AC	Ramsbottom Library, Carr Street
AD	Hazlehurst CP School, Geoffrey Street
AE	St Andrews Church, Bolton Street
AF	Mobile van on car park on Lumb Carr Road

Taken from the Bury Council website

Transdev CEO Alex Hornby Explains Red Express Bus Stop – Episode 158

December 7, 2019 by Lee 3 Comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:07 — 20.3MB)

The press release on the 29th of November looked like good news, a title of “We’re improving Irwell Line from 26 January” however it soon became clear this was anything but for Ramsbottom.

Within this came the announced death of the Red Express/x41 service due to happen at the end of January.

To get a better understanding about why these changes were happening and if there was anything that could make Transdev reconsider, I contacted Alex Hornby, CEO of Transdev Blazefield for an interview and Alex was more than happy to come on the podcast.

One key area of discussion was the cost of the service. The article mentioned above details Transdev are losing £300,000 a year running the Red Express and Alex was keen to highlight this didn’t come lightly:

“We’re not a public body, we can’t share our secrets with everyone. We wouldn’t be withdrawing the service if it did work, it’s not in our interest to do that.” – Alex Hornby

Ramsbottom gets ready for Small Business Saturday

December 5, 2019 by Lee Leave a Comment

Saturday marks the 7th annual Small Business Saturday on the 7th of December. 7th on the 7th, has quite a nice ring to it. If you’re not aware of Small Business Saturday, here’s a direct quote from their website:

Small Business Saturday UK is a grassroots, non-commercial campaign, which highlights small business success and encourages consumers to ‘shop local’ and support small businesses in their communities.
Small Business Saturday UK – https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/

In short, what Small Business Saturday aims to do is highlight small business success and aims to encourage us all to “shop local”. This doesn’t just mean in shops though, this means local businesses too.

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