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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
back in the early 1990s i remember something about the plan to build in between blackburn and ossy to join them up and to make hyndburn a suburb of the city of blackburn .
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....and that plan was fiercely resisted by everyone in Hyndburn. It was one of the few issues that united everyone - Labour councillors, Conservative councillors, Liberal Democrat councillors (well councillor, Yvonne Stars) and the local MP. Everyone locally fighting to KEEP things local in the face of threats to merge us with Blackburn.
How times change. When the local MP can't be trusted to fight Hyndburn's corner at Westminster, what hope is there?
And how long is Graham expecting these 'times of austerity' to last? Any decisions about the future format of local government have got to be long term. The last thing we need is long term solutions to short term problems.
