On Thursday 4th May 2017 all of the Greater Manchester councils (including Bury) will hold an election to decide who will be the region’s next Mayor. I sincerely hope you will consider voting for the Liberal Democrat candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor Jane Brophy (you can read more about Jane here on her website) but…
Greater Manchester Police have written to me today to confirm that the public counter at Whitefield Police Station will close for good on 27th February 2017. Additionally, Bury Police Station will be reducing its opening hours to the new times of 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 10am-6pm on Saturday and Sundays.
I’ve written two letters today about the car accident that happened last Friday outside the Co-op store on Parr Lane. The first letter was to Bury Council’s Traffic Management Department, in which I asked them to do more to enforce the double yellow lines outside the Co-op, install a temporary 20mph zone around that section…
Whitefield’s local police team are really excellent at keeping local residents updated on crime in our immediate area. There have been three recent twitter updates from GMP Whitefield which specifically mention crimes reported in Unsworth, in particular two of the tweets mention that local residents vehicles have been targeted. #Crime Tue 12-Apr-2016 04:20 Van stolen,…
I am worried and concerned to learn that a gang of eight or nine thugs attacked local teenagers on Easter Sunday at Thatch Leach Lane park, leaving one of the teenagers with a fractured skull. Greater Manchester Police say the incident happened around 7pm on the Sunday evening and as well as the vicious assault,…
The pictures opposite show the devastation after a robbery of my Home Cinema shop in Manchester. Horrific aren’t they? However, these pictures were not taken on Tuesday following the rioting and looting in the North West of England, they were taken exactly two days before Christmas day, 2003. As I listened to Salford, Manchester and…
Last month, Peter Flanagan of Pendlebury in Salford was confronted by machete-wielding intruders at his home. He has been quoted as saying he “did what he believed necessary” to defend his home and family and fatally stabbed one of the burglars. The day before the break-in, Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters he intended to…
In today’s Times, 115 Liberal Democrat councillors (including 14 Lib Dem Council Leaders and almost 70 opposition and group leaders including Councillor Norman Owen, Leader of the Salford Lib Dem Group) have called for the scrapping of Conservative-proposed plans for Police and Crime Commissioners. You can read more about the story at LocalGov, thereby saving…
The Liberal Democrats have often (wrongly) been accused of being soft on crime, but here is a story you won’t find in any mainstream press – so I have to thank David Mitchell (yes, that one!) for pointing this one out to me. I firmly believe that gun and knife crimes are one of the…
It may have been a headline grabbing attempt to seem tough on crime but Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Gayling’s claim that parts of the UK are like HBO’s series ‘The Wire’, are hardly helpful. The critically acclaimed crime drama (currently showing on BBC2) depicts the problems that many cities across the world have faced,…
