[garinda]

Admittedly I didn't live in Hyndburn the last time we had a Labour controlled council, though I did used to visit every month or so.

What is apparent to anyone with half a brain cell is that the area is now more run down than ten years ago.

Under a Tory run council we have seen the death of the outside market, once one of the busiest in the northwest.

At a cost of many millions of pounds the bus station was moved to accommodate the new market, and suprise suprise the council are planning on relocating it again, again at more cost.

We've seen the Conservative run council allow more new retail premises to be built in the area, many of them now stood empty, while long established businesses have gone to the wall, or relocated elsewhere. The economic retail boom that the country has experienced, certainly never made it to Hyndburn.

We may have pretty floral towers, but Accrington as a town is dieing on it's backside because of the woeful inability of the council to govern for the good of the people and the area.