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Working it out pro-rata then the overall figure for 7 days opening would be £23.3333333 (recurring). Can sorta' understand this if they have heavy repair/maintenance charges at times, however, the heavier bills would still occur if only open 4 days per week, would they not ? :confused:

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The only saving they would make is electricity. As you say every other cost would still be the same, 1 day a week or 7 days a week. Even the bog roll saved would still be used in the market on the days they are closed :)

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I really can't see it saving that much money to be honest unless you lay someone off or reduce their hours but they're going to need someone to tend to the Market Hall toilets more often (and presumably mend the seats) so the cost will have to be offset somewhere.

Preston Town Centre has public toilets all over the place rippling out well into the suburbs. Even Lostock Hall has public facilities and it's easily quarter the size of Accrington Town Centre. As Gynn called it earlier in the thread, it's scatter bomb politics as part of a face-saving exercise to prove that the Market Hall is popular.

We're entering the endgame in an increasingly desperate electioneering campaign so expect to see some fairly wild claims of how well they're doing and generous cheques being handed out in the papers over the next two months.

Kath Pratt and Paul Barton have been getting some fairly heavy mileage out of The Regency shutters this week and Stan Horne has been knocking down a row of houses which doesn't even belong to the council.

Desperation, to be blunt.

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Wonder where that issue was brought to light first :rolleyes:

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Wasn't it this very forum?

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/875209-post35.html

It must not have been me who sent the e-mail after all.

Still, like I keep saying we should use AccyWeb to get things done. The Leader doesn't seem to like KenWeb very much although is abreast of everything which is posted.

Time for a new thread. With elections coming up this is your chance to get all those jobs which have needed doing for years sorted out so they can go on election literature!

Rishton needs some public toilets.

(I'm serious about that, actually!)

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Perhaps he prefers Hyndburm Life, to keep abreast about what the community are concerned about.

Row flares over £591,000 spent on outdated website - Accrington Observer

What?

It's now closed down, and all the £591,000.00 of tax payers' money was therefore wasted?

Get out of here!

That would never happen.

:rolleyes:

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PB asks 'what's the fuss'....well, Mr Britcliffe if y ou are reading this......the fuss is about having easy access to public toilets......unless of course you want to provide us all with a licence to pee in the street.

There have been toilets freely available on Peel St since the early sixties almost 50 years, yet this buffoon thinks it a good idea to close them on days that he deems 'not busy'....but bamboozles market hall traders to open on one of the days he deems 'not busy'.......is that some kind of disordered logic?

So...if it isn't busy enough to warrant the toilets open....why bother opening the market hall......?That must cost a fortune......Oh, silly me, he has the mugs....sorry I mean traders to pay rent for that.

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If thats the case Ken, maybe I won't be on the Christmas card list next year:rolleyes:;)
As for public bogs in sunny Rishton, what about a Porta-Loo in the Garden of Rishton Towers Ken:D

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ermmm since when has logic been applied to favours ? ;)

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Yes.....but there is a wink there......so you know and probably lots of others do too, but the logic is for the local press.....who wouldn't dare suggest anything so scandalous as a favour.

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Think you will find the mugs are coffee mugs in number one sons little emporium/ toilet facade. :D:D:D

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One thing has struck me in all this. Where is the right of the public to get decisions like this overturned ? Seems to me they can make any decision they want and all we can do is voice our opinions and wait for the next election.

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Unless....

Unless you walk like an Egyptian, and have a revolution.

I know of a very talented community artist, who could knit you an effigy, if you want to hang one from a lampost.

She don't come cheap, mind.

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it'd probably cost a fortune in wool rindy ....

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Well you could always cut costs by supplying suitably printed t-shirts Dave:D:D

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Could they not make it from paper mache? They could recycle all of your tissues.
:s_spit::s_sick::s_coolspi

How about a queue-in?
On the days peels st is closed we all queue outside the Market hall bogs. Once you have visited you rejoin the back of the queue. PB can't object he's getting the Market thruput he desires. The Police can't object, we all need to go.
Could we call this movement 'Pis de resistance?'.

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Maybe PB son's cafe can supply free drinks aswell...................so we keep "going" :rolleyes:

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Searching for something totally unrelated, about the old urban district councils, I found this.

Toilets in Rishton.

The history of public urination in Rishton, and no I'm not taking the...

Enjoy.

:D

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This week's special - £3.99

Pie & Pees.

:rolleyes::D

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well ive got enough of the damn things :D:D:D

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I ended up waiting till i got home for a wee, was busting but wasnt gonna go to market hall!!! 2 people headed up to peel st toilets only to discover that they were closed peeing them off litterally.

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I am sure this will happen quite often. Have you noticed when you want to go, the nearer you get to what you think is your destination, the more the urge comes over you.

Unfortunately, small children do not let you know until they are absolutely dancing and having to go the extra '100 yards' up those steps will create a few accidents I fear.

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Just seen one lad in transit from school, probably about 11/12 year old. Ran up to the toilets saw they were closed and said to his mate as he was legging it down the street, got to go to Market Hall. I suspect he may have wet pants by now, children aren't allowed on the Market Hall balcony without an adult :eek:

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Really, Dave, surely 11/12 years would not come into this catergory ? Do they state an age restriction ?

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im guessing a new rule to pop up will be that children can use the balcony without adult supervision as long as they buy a soft drink from the cafe upstairs along the way ;)

there may be a job creation opportunity here.Chaperone children on and off the blacony for £1.00 per child.

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Paul's website is the definitive guide to Rishton and yet he's still researching, it's fantastic.

We used to have quite a few public toilets in Rishton although the hideous expense of running them coupled with, shall we say, soliciting got them closed down one by one.

The pay-per-use TARDIS models that are up and down the county seem to pay for themselves, I can't see the problem with those to be honest. Expensive, but we're here to provide a service and the complaints we get from the older residents who perhaps can't hold on as well as they used to is increasing.

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You can probably get a carer's allowance for that now.....

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Sign just says Children must be accompanied by Adult. I suppose the age depends on which judge you get hauled up in front of :D

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Bit amiguous ... let's just hope didn't put the 'wee laddy' off ... :D Hope he didn't water the plantpots.

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In Manchester's 'village', some wag was always Tipexing over one particular letter on the street sign in Canal Street, to alter the name, and it's now a tourist attraction.

Perhaps you could similarly change Peel to Pee Street?

Let's face it. With all these bursting bladders, that's what it's likely to become.

PEEL STREET

(A photo would look good on the Facebook page.)

:rolleyes:

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Shouldn't it be the opposite way round, it's need additional letters, PEELESS ST.

If anybody is going there today bring a torch there's no lights. Must have taken the fuse out to save leccy :D

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Prob no bog roll either knowing our council ;)

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There is some of that :)

10p put in meter now, which blows a hole in the cost savings, now down to £9,999.90p :p

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Don't hold your breathe, heard on TV this morning that Manchester are closing a lot of their town centre loo's, looks like its catching

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Well, put some paper on the seat before you use it then.

:pain30:

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Won't effect me Less, just warning others, I'm good like that:)

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well there will be amess on the streets with the larger lout,s and other,s with them shut

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Accrington is just going to be an empty town

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Forget Rivers of Blood.

Peel street will soon be awash with 'can't hold it any longer' piddle.

We might get tourists coming to Accrington, to take cruises up the Yellow River.

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Big article about the campaign to keep the toilets open, in this weekend's Observer.

Photographs of the potties, and mention of the Facebook campaign, and how many people have joined it.

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You mean an up to date story wow;)

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Bang up to date.

The photographer didn't even wait for one poor old man to get off the jerry, before taking the picture.

There might be a new Spot the Ball competition in next week's paper.

:D

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Don't like these competitions which you've little chance of winning:D

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I might start getting the observer again, looks like its picking up a bit. How many pictures of Peter is there in this week?

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Couldn't write a script better :D

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G said spot the ball not the medal Dave:D

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There's an article on the BBC website about public loos.

BBC News - Where can you go to the toilet?

Interesting to see where Manchesters remaining public loo will be :rolleyes:

Quote from
Richard Chisnell, chairman of the Loo of the Year Awards. "Toilets are what it's all about. We're in danger, with all the cutbacks and doom and gloom, of losing our basic front-line services such as toilets.
"However bad the cutbacks, people aren't going to stop needing the toilet."

Qoute from Peter Britcliffe in the Observer on council cuts
"
Council leader Peter Britcliffe told Tuesday's Cabinet meeting it was "the most difficult budget procedure we have had to go through in the last 20 years."
But he claimed frontline services would not be damaged "

So can somebody tell me the difference between front line services and front line services :confused:

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Obviously going for a Jimmy Wriggle ain't one of um:D

You won't be canvassing for the May elections then?
:-0

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amazing how our inglorious leader can Pee people of init?:D

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There was a phone in on the Jeremy Vine show today, about loo closures.

I don't know if you were on, as I can't always get a signal in the outside tippler.

:D

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Just a meagre three, Bernard ... :D

But another article, plus Lancsdave picture of the baby potties. Obvious they will not be swayed on this with Marlene stating that they are not actually cutting services, but improving with state of the art in the market hall with a disabled facility and shower room. Who the hek cares .. when you gotta' go, you gotta' go .. bare necessities is all that is needed. Ok not arguing about the disabled facity.

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I think it's the same difference as a front botty and a back botty.

Or is the difference what comes out?

It's very confusing.

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Not had time to listen. Too busy working to make up for the extra day closing we now have due to footfall diversion :rolleyes:

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It was yesterday actually, Garinda . I listened to some of that,but had to get back into work ... did wonder if anyoned from Hyndburn had rung. If it had been convenient, would have done it meself.

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I'm still on British Summer Time.

Your yesterday is like my today.

Plus I could hardly hear it, sat in the privy, at the bottom of the yard.

:D

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Only spotted two, but I'm only part way through. Will update as and when.

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Can anyone explain to me why we need a shower in the market hall? I was going to make the question longer and more involved, but I just can't. If someone can be bothered please do.

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Well it wasn't much use because it wasn't mentioned but I did send the link for the facebook campaign.

Which of course can be found here:-

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Could be because it's now an arts venue.

You know what divas are like.

Mariah Carey wants white flowers, and red smarties.

Damien Hirst only drinks Cristal.

Perhaps Knitty Nora demanded a shower, at the end of a had days gonk making.

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There's a group one on Page 15 ... :D

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Is there a collective noun, for a group of Peter Britcliffes?

:rolleyes:

Oh silly me.

You meant he's pictured, in a group.

What a pity.

Guessing the name for a group of 'em could have been fun.

:D

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Would it be a "Herd" as in elephants?:D

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A medley?

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He's fired up the SatNav and is visiting somewhere called Rishton this evening to present a cheque.

We have categorically been asked by the beneficiary not to use it for political purposes, presumably meaning it cannot be used in The Accrington Observer, the Lancashire Telegraph or any election literature. Whilst I am perfectly happy with this arrangement I simply cannot believe that the picture won't appear somewhere as another piece of 'good news'.

It will also feature Cllr Horne, currently promoted as saviour of the village who is up for election in May...

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As posted before, the local Parkinson's disease support group gratefully received a donation from HBC to help fund our accommodation expenses, for the past two years.

It was only in the second year that I suggested the cheque was presented publicly, and publicised. The first year the cheque just arrived in the post.

At no point was the idea raised by anyone other than myself.

The money was much appreciated, as was the publicity, which resulted in us reaching new people who have Parkinson's.

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I would sign this petition, but can't, as I am not a member of Facebook.
I don't want to join Facebook just to sign the petition.

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Quite a different scenario and I'm glad that the money helped you, just as the people in question in Rishton are grateful for their grant, but I've seen some shocking jerrymandering of events over the past 12 months to realise that nothing is outside the realm of opportunism if there's political gain to be made.

I'm hoping against hope that tonight will be an exception.

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It's just been pointed out to me that there is actually a 'dump' at the back of the tardis. Wether it's human or animal we would need an expert to find out :eek:

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Won't be long before one of our slum Landlords rents it out.
:)

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Ain't done that for 25 years Less:D

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You mean there was no place for the Laird of Rishton Towers at this shindig Ken, I'm shocked and stunned:eek::eek::eek:

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Just had a thought:confused:What the hell will the discussions be about on Accyweb after the first Thursday in May:D

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There is actually, I've been specifically invited by the beneficiary because it was me who approached Cllr Britcliffe for the money first and was knocked back.

Fortunately, he is a very perceptive man, saw what was coming in terms of electioneering and made the event non-political by ensuring everyone got an invite, which to be honest is how it should be.

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It'll give you chance to stop harping on about 13 years of Labour government and instead talk about how 12 hours of Labour rule in Hyndburn have brought the borough to the brink of financial ruin instead....

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You'll be lucky if he waits 12 minutes never mind 12 hours :D

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This weeks Observer article


Accrington town centre toilet closure is 'potty' | Accrington Observer - menmedia.co.uk


COMMENTS SECTION OPEN ON THIS ONE :)

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No Ken that comes after 13 weeks :D

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Saw it yesterday, I'm just glad that the picture got a wider audience, it's one of the best photos ever.

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Now Dave I'm much fairer than that;)

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Someone got Caught short :D

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Brilliant :D

Can we put that on the Facebook page ?

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Absolutely love this pic....after all, I am such a fan of PB:rolleyes:

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A master piece, Mick .... :rofl38:

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I think it's a vile and vicious thing to do, and am so angry I think I'll write to a local paper, stating as much.

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Send the photo in to back your story up!!!!:p

Class that Mick!!! :D:D

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If anybody is down town today and nees to visit the newly improved, state of the art Gents toilets.... they are closed for painting :D

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Which ones are those surely not the Market Hall:rolleyes:

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In Market hall ??? Omg does that mean u will have to go to the tardis???

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Or behind it?
:D

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No you have to go the traders toilets

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Ah the worst loos in centre then lol

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By the time people find the public conveniences there will be a trail of ............At least the late shoppers will know the way . ;)

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The one I have said before

P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C!!!!!!:D

Arrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

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I'm wondering if this may be a long term plan by Councillor Britcliffe to bring in Squat Toilets in Accy, and thus get the ethnic vote?

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They are NEWLY opened so why on earth do they need painting again???

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You'd think being state of the art they would actually paint themselves during the night :D

I beleive it was a graffitti issue

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Ahhhhhhhh right!

Come on then which one of you lot did it?? :eek:

Wonder what was wrote on the walls.................................:D

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yeh but yeh never said yeh had too enter sodding numbers to get through the door, was gonna pee oer the balcony.