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If you’re out tonight at the Ramsbottom late night Christmas shop, or on your works Christmas do or even at the last of the years Friday Night Bite, I know you’ve all been really waiting for the Christmas bin schedule.
Well, wait no more as it has just arrived on my doorstep, so I thought I’d share with you here. Hopefully this is clear enough, you should be able to click on the image to get a bigger version.
[Read more…] about Ramsbottom Christmas Bin Collection DatesDue 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.
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.
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.
| 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
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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
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