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I just had an enjoyable re-read of a thread in "Anything goes" about which Cartoon character/comic book hero you resembled. I remembered Garinda being He-man so I stand corrected, the Ossy superheroes are 2.

Less as Cartman I'd forgotten (more Dick Dastardly IMHumbleO!), the bucket would be back at you if you tried to pull that one on me:rolleyes:

Jay I'm sorry , as Bugs Bunny you'll just have to carry on going for the laughs;):D

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not usually a fan of copy pasting from other sites but not everyone has facebook so heres an update from PB

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My granddaughter lives in Stanhill.
She posted this on Facebook.

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That is unbelievable -is it that bad all over the area?:eek:

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You can see plenty more photos on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/263197987117480/

...including pics of the bales of waste.

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I Live in Dawen (approx. 2.3 mile as the Fly Flies ) and have noticed an increase in flies .
I could cry :-( What a sad world we are in . hundreds of people suffer for one person's gain / Greed
I use Brookside most days and love it , I'll be there tonight to show my support.

This is a reply I had from Graham Jones MP

Graham has received a number of complaints about this issue and has taken it up with the council and the Environment Agency. We were told yesterday by the Environment Agency that they are very much aware of the problem and that it has high priority. They also said that this is a multi-agency issue as Hyndburn Borough Council and Lancashire County Council are also involved. We are to receive an update this week and as soon as we do I’ll email a copy to you.

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Sod off I hate flaming carrots:p:p:p

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Wheres Dawen:confused::rolleyes:

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Oh dear,
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...mer-29681.html

Don't forget to go to introduce yourself before you throw anymore weight about

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He was being serious, would you want to live next door to somebody with a trillion flies in their house.;)

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Ha ha! It's that place next to Darren. You know o' yon ill. :D

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The papers and the council report the plague of flies can be blamed on fly tipping, first where do you get that many flies to be able to tip them, and why dont they fly out of the wagon on the way to be tipped ?

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If someone thinks they are worth tipping they must have performed a good service.

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Hey Dave,yeh will have our new deadly serious village idiot,telling yeh to "Get A Life":rolleyes::D

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they could have baked them into chorley cakes.

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They get a bit gritty between the teeth.

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I will await that epistle with a song in my heart, a tear in my eye, and a box of blowfly cakes in my pocket.

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your thinking of Eccles cakes or some other location based patisserie product.

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Oh flippin Eccles!

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Prefer Garibaldis myself...

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An update, in case you haven't been watching it on Facebook.

The firm who dumped it are Blakeleys Waste Management in Wigan.
There had been a fly plague there and Wigan council ordered them to shift some waste before the end of July.
They did - to us.
Blakeleys claim that the owner of the old Cockers site assured them that permission to accept the waste was in place.

A meeting will be held tonight at the pub on Thwaites Rd where the Enviro Health people will answer questions.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/426790694030165/

http://www.facebook.com/events/26319..._mall_activity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...er_26_07_2012/

keep listenening - it starts at 60mins

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Is anybody going to be seeking compensation for expenses and stress from this episode off the land owner? I think you deserve your money back for products at least.

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I am listening to the broadcast now
"About 2:08 in & (2:12 is the statement from the land owner)"

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One of the two owners of the site is offshore:rolleyes:

http://amcis.org.sg/About-AMCIS.php


The Association of Management Corporations in Singapore, AMCIS
115A Commonwealth Drive, #01-03,
Singapore 149596.

Hotline: (65) 6100-1550
Telefax: (65) 6276-8747
Email: [email protected]

"At AMCIS, nothing is impossible -- we have developed solutions to solve your problems."

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Sue the one within the jurisdiction. It can be done on line in the Small Calims Court (up to £5000) at www.moneyclaim.gov.uk To be served on Blakeley's Waste Management Ltd, Bickershaw Lane, Abram, Wigan, WN2 5TB

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http://www.wigantoday.net/logger/p.g...2.1933/2.18354
Sponsored by http://www.wigantoday.net/webimage/1...1750978730.jpg
Probe over fly infestation

http://www.wigantoday.net/webimage/1...1998774938.jpg Hindley Green Business Park


Published on Friday 18 May 2012 12:59


THE Environment Agency has reprimanded a Wigan company after their waste storage operations caused an infestation of flies.

Blakeley’s Waste Management, on the Hindley Green Business Park, is storing compressed rubbish in its unit in breach of the terms of a permit to store paper and plastic waste there.
Other companies with units on the business park and local councillors say this shouldn’t be happening and have complained to Wigan Council, saying that the area around the business park is being plagued by clouds of flies feeding on the waste.
ContiTech, which also operates on the Hindley Green site, claims its canteen has had to be shut on more than one occasion due to the insects, and shifts of workers have also had to be sent home. It reported the issue to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Wigan Council, before the matter was passed to the Environment Agency’s (EA) Environmental Protection team.
The problems began after letting agents permitted Blakeley’s to store bales of dried mixed recyclables (DMR’s), made up of compressed cartons and tins, in the unit, a type of waste it did not have a permit to keep on site.
The Environment Agency (EA) also said there was too much waste being stored at the Hindley Green site after visiting the premises, before ordering the firm to seal the building to prevent odour leakages and preventing more DMRs being delivered until this was done.
Hindley Green councillor Bob Brierley has also written to the authorities over the issue of the storage facility.
He said: “I have received a number of complaints from residents about the flies, which I understand are gathering due to the storage of this waste.
“I don’t see why they can’t just hire wagons to clear the waste away. I am organising the Brunswick fun day in Hindley Green next month, which is in its third year and includes a BBQ, and this work needs to be done before the event.
“This needs to be treated urgently because Hindley Green has run out of fly spray.”
The EA have now served a notice on the firm, giving it until July 31 to clear away the waste in an appropriate manner and put in place measures to minimise odours and deal with the flies. Blakeley’s can appeal, but a pest control firm was reported to be on site.
ContiTech was approached but declined to comment. Blakeley’s had also not replied at the time of going to press.

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just seen this on facebook ..





Peter Britcliffe

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT NEWS>

THE landowners and waste firm will meet on site tomorrow.The rubbish will be removed from the start of next week at the latest.

Well done Ossy People Power......I am so proud of you all.

Like · · Follow post · 29 minutes ago

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AMCIS aint been up there for about 2 years , the last company that was there was a maintance company ,
ian

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AMICIS were named as a joint owner during the Radio Lancs broadcast and a letter from them was read out on air.(near the end of the broadcast- see link to it given earlier this thread)

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here you go ..:D:D:D

Simon's Cat 'Fly Guy' - YouTube

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When the temperature in my lounge topped 80F midweek, I was compelled to take down the blockade against fly entry, in order to hang the exit hose of my air conditioning machine out of the window.

Some flies sneaked in. I was wakened twice in the night with some crawling on me.
Eventually I got a few hours sleep by creating a cocoon for myself with a sheet, leaving only my face exposed, and in front of that I held my tennis racket fly zapper.

Then coincidentally, today's Independant cartoon shows something similar .

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Thanks Jen - I watched that last night and ended up watching all 22 of the Simon's Cat videos on You Tube. They are briliiant - he really knows his cats Passed a very pleasant hour doing that and had a few good laughs.

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glad you liked it .. i did the same and thats how i found it ... my niece put one of em up on facebook ... and ended up watching the rest ... i did like the santa claws one ... :D:D:D

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I liked the one where he ended up with the piece of sticky tape stuck to his tail and doesn't know - but they're all so true to how cats behave. And I love the cat noises - which Simon does himself!

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I am an ex employee of this company and i took them to court last year and blew the whistle on them disposing of waste without permits and the appropriate licences. Sadley the court failed to understand the significance of the health risk this poses and found it to be entirly proper conduct for them to do this.

But they did find it was in bad faith for me to blow the whistle, becasue they unlawfully deducted my wages when i spoke out against this practice. Even worse the court ruled i would be dismissed anyway because i had a disability, that i hadn't informed my employer about.

I have tried ever since to get the courts to understand how dangerous it is to dispose of waste illegall without the relivant permits, but because i am disabiled they wouldn't listen to me. This was preventable and i am so sorry i failed to prevent it, i did everything i could and I have never given up trying since i took court action last year.

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Can you name the directors of this company? Those details are available from Companies House but that costs a few quid so if possible just put their details on here.

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Steven Blakeley is the director

Greama Knight is the health and safety manager / General Manager

He deals with most things

Hope that Helps

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Mr Steven Barron is the logistics manager, the person of whom would have organised the transport of this waste to your town. He is also the only certified person for hazardous waste and his beleif's on what merits hazardous waste does deviate somewhat from what the law says is hazardous. So yes i would be very carefull around the site of this waste, because the company does not like to carry out risk assessment or C.O.S.S.H. following any reports the drivers make of suspisious waste.

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Somewhere on the facebook flies page you will find the full address of another Blakeley director brother which I found.

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There is also Denis Blakeleys, Steven Blakeleys dad, but he doesn't get envolved in the Business much anymore.

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I have tried to find what I posted on Facebook but it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I do recall that I found two directors with a middle name Dennis, and there were some other Blakeleys with previous involvement in the business.

The private address I found sounded rather 'posh rural'.

Seems rather a rubbish dynastic style run business.

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Steven Blakeleys is the main director who deals with the business, he is the one who is responsible for making the decissions. Unfortunatly i don't think his family are aware of half what goes on with the business, but I think by now they will be getting a pretty good idea.

Sadley he along with the managers he employs are very good at telling porkies and pulling the wool over peoples eyes, sadley he is driven by money and has very little regard for the consiquences of his actions. I did tell him back in 2010 that putting peoples lives at risk in order to make money, is both unfair and will be his downfall.

congratulations to everyone who managed to catch him in the act, it is almost restoring my faith in the justice system.

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Downside now is can't get that catchy tune which starts and ends most of the videos out of my head!

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Never thought i'd wish squatters would move into ossy,let us (s) pray this is over..so Wigan lot are to blame? Them from Wigan think a balanced diet is,a pie in each hand! !! :D

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We heard about the English town swarmed by flies in Sardinia!

Just got back, and found dead ones in my house, and a fat, live little blighter, which fly spray wouldn't kill, but managed to swat the beggar with one of the Observers from behind the door.

What's next, is it the plague of frogs, or is it blood?

:eek:

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I thought Pestilence came after the flies? Still, I suppose some of Ossy's equine stock would prefer a quick death to what some of the locals do to 'em.

And ain't a plague of boils the next one after that? What could be nicer for the people of Ossy...I'm loving it.

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Well flies aren't that choosy really but even they drew a line at venturing into Church :thefinger:thefinger

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The horse fiddler was a sex tourist.

Unilke you, he didn't come to pastures new from Church, but from Blackburn.

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The day when the stuff should start to be moved and none has.

An update from Facebook -
"Peter Britcliffe
FLIES LATEST
No sign yet of this going.On my way to site with County Councillor Tim Ashton and he will contact the Env Agency yet again to find out what is going on and report back to me."

I have killed 4 flies today - and two more are evading me.
I have a better score with the plastic swatter than the tennis racket zapper.

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When did this tipping start on this particular site?
Surely there are regulations for the disposal company to adhere to and checks carried out by the relevant authority.

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Some paperwork found on site shows Feb 2012, but now that it has been discovered that there are buried bales, it may well have been going on for longer.

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I have just seen a tweet from Clare Pritchard saying thi


Disgusting rubbish in Oswaldtwistle being moved on Wednesday

So it looks like HBC are on the case still

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So it looks like the tweets have got their act together then:rolleyes:

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You would have been praising HBC last year for sorting it out

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Not if they'd taken so flaming long I wouldn't, you forget what my stance is now on all flaming politicians not just the useless ones who are now in charge

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So what's your stance on the useless one's wanting to take charge?

I would have thought that a calamity such as this would actually have all parties working together to sort this out, after all, if what we read is true, this isn't so much a political cock up as a deliberate and illegal act by some greedy businessmen.

(allegedly).

So if on Wednesday the clean up does begin perhaps a little praise for all involved no matter what their petty allegiances, (I mean parties), may be.

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Ya the environments agency will have done a great job;)

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Yes, and until the aftermath when all the Council will be able to discuss the why's and wherefores of this you are no wiser than anyone else and yet you are already laying the blame along your traditional lines.

At the moment your mate seems to have been working hard to resolve the situation, well done him, but probably it will turn out to have been a team effort, Well done to all involved both in public view and behind the scenes, in a very tricky situation...

Oh, and yah boo sucks to the man that just jumps to his own political conclusions, (no matter how faulty his keyboard may be).
:)

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Short and sweet Less take a pill:rolleyes:

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I've laughed at many of your comments Jay, somehow though that one was perhaps the nearest you'll come to admitting what you said was wrong both politically and perhap's, (only perhap's because unlike you, I don't know who is to blame), factually.
Maybe that's why it wasn't very funny.

:o

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Well I laughed at you:D

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Prior to this dumping incident, it's been going on for years.

One lodge next to Cocker's used to be luminous orange jelly, that you could run across if you were quick.

When we lived up Stanhill forty years ago, our neighbour always said she knew good weather was coming, if Cocker's stank extra stongly.

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i dont know about whos in charge and who isnt but Peter Britcliffe has been extreemly helpfull and put a lot of effort into getting the agencies to move their backsides.Not one to praise politico's but credit where credit is due although he does live pretty close to the site so does have a small interest in it himself.

i dont know if he has to decalre self interest in it at the next council meeting as i dont know the rules :D

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Ya Rindi when I was young if you lived up new lane it stank of DDT, and the brook which ran through what we knew as the Swanny was always full of suds and the stones in the brook were the cleanest in the country. Then it became illegal to dump their waste in the brook

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Cats are now catching rats in the New Lane area.
One woman had two delivered to her overnight.

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Agreed. There'd be more of an outcry if Peter Britcliffe wasn't leading the campaign to get this issue resolved.

Seeing as he's an Oswaldtwistle councillor, and lives just over the fields from where this stuff was dumped.

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I also noticed a poster on the front door of the Civic Arts Centre today, offering free fly papers, if anyone needs them.

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An update from Facebook - the removal which was promised to start Monday, then was rescheduled for Wednesday, has encountered a problem raised by the site owner.

Blakeleys Waste
Hi everyone

Please see our latest statement below:

Stephen Blakeley, managing director at Blakeley’s Waste Management, said: “Despite receiving approval from Hyndburn Borough Council and the Environment Agency that we can begin to start removing waste from Oswaldtwistle waste site, the land owner Arthur Morgan of AMCIS has unfortunately applied a restriction of access, which prevents us from getting on to the site to start the clearance before 8am. This reduces the time we can operate during the day and will therefore lengthen the time it takes us to remove the bales.

“Also, as at present Arthur Morgan has not yet agreed to allow access to the site for the operation to begin tomorrow. He has requested further information, which has been supplied this afternoon. Despite this he has yet to give permission for Blakeley’s to access the site. Therefore, at present we cannot begin the clearance tomorrow as planned until Mr Morgan removes his objections.”

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No doubt Mr Morgan doesn't live within a 100 miles of Ossy:rolleyes:

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Why the piggin' hell has land owner Arthur Morgan applied for restricted access, and why is he refusing to give permission for the bales to be removed?

Nevermind tar and feathering.

He should be stripped naked and tied to a stake at the site, after being being rubbed down with some of the lovely clinical waste.

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There is a report that men and a digging machine are on the site, and have said that they are working for the land owner.

It looks suspiciously like the landowner wants to dig up something that is there (and likely shouldn't be), before he will let Blakeleys in to remove their bales.

The TCP smell that we remember from the past has returned due to soil disturbance.

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Your trouble Rindi is your far too kind:rolleyes:

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G Jones MP has been on the site with the Enviro folk this pm.

I hope that he doesn't say 95% of the bales cause no risk to health:rolleyes::D

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Well it is his stock answer Margaret:D

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And there's probably a lot more (nasties) than appears to be the case.

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In that case he probably live 200 miles away from Ossy;)

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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I assume Mr Morgan was paid for letting them dump on there. Maybe they want their money back, just a thought. :confused:

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also getting infested with flies in the rishton area we always like to leave the backdoor open for our dog but as of late we are having to keep it closed until we let him out, cant kill the little blighters quick enough if we decide to open the door, our poor bailey is now also helping us by chasing the flies round, enjoyable to watch but we hate the fact they are in our home.

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Contact your local councillor, deputy dog, you'll find him at Rishton Towers:D

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wouldnt know were to start with looking for a local councillor new to the area.

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Stand in the centre of Rishton and shout Mossy, he'll find you:D

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The guy has enough to put up with because of the flies if he shout's that he may attract mosquito's.
:)

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Don't you mean Mozzy:D:D

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Rishton it don't have a centre, keep asking myself why we moved here yet to find the answer..

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You could well have a point:rolleyes:

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When you don't have a recognisable centre, you don't get 'town planners' forever ripping it up in the name of progress.

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Whichever way you spell it, it's the wrong thing to shout unless you want endless irritation.
:hidewall:

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Always remembering that the town planners never live in the town they are planning;)

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Ya Less better keep quiet or he'll be buzzing round here:rolleyes:

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yeah and them that design one way systems dont have driving licences either.

you would think it was a bare minimum that someone have experience of using a road before been allowed to design one :rolleyes:

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I still say that the junction at Church commercial, is better when the lights aren't working, certainly don't get the same snarl ups that's for sure

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here you go ...

Councillors

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That's very remiss of you Jen you didn't include a government health warning:D

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whats one of them ..... :eek:

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No doubt there is one, buried deep beneath an illegal tip in ossy?

Hmm, maybe that should read,


No doubt there is one, buried deep beneath a tip called ossy?

:hidewall:

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The Facebook page has the news that removal of the (on surface) waste has begun, and the lorries are going up New Lane and joining the motorway, ie. not using Union Rd.

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Exactly.
:)

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This particular Rishton councillor has already been onto it, a couple of complaints from the Southside estate but it's little (if anything) to do with Oswaldtwistle, merely flies and midges rising from the canal and surrounding fields.

Hot weather + heavy showers = plenty of the little buggers.

I've not been over to Nook Lane regarding their issue but I feel for the residents, must be awful right now.

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Some moron set 50 bales alight last night, so the attendance of the fire brigade delayed the start of today's removal operations.