Monthly Archives: March 2014

Election results – Maltby Town Council

At the polling station yesterday, the Maltby electorate summoned up as much enthusiasm as they could muster with a turnout of 17.4% The result was – Labour 154, Ind 123 and TUSC 42  with the Labour Party candidate Richard Price … Continue reading

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More on the subject of foodbanks … Food Poverty in Rotherham

Came across this from RMBC’s “Cabinet Member Health & Wellbeing”  (did anyone know there was one ?) Though this was posted 15 months ago, it is interesting that the statement  “Coverage is still rather patchy with some wards having several organisations … Continue reading

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Foodbanks in Maltby –

A year ago today since we had this news on the foodbank in Maltby, to which £500 of Maltby’s money was “donated” by Maltby Town Council. https://maltbyblogger.com/2013/04/26/foodbank-in-maltby-funded-by-maltby-town-council/Maltby Foodbank Addison Road, Maltby, Rotherham South Yorkshire S66 8DA Contact: Sean Gibbons Telephone: 01709 717186 Email: info@foodawarecic.org.uk … Continue reading

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Election Day – Maltby Town Council South and East Wards

Election day for Maltby Town Council. Come on all you folks in South and East wards … get your votes placed and let’s get the change that is needed for Maltby to become a better place to live. Updates later. 

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Labour out – in Hellaby

Originally posted on Rotherham Politics:
Shabana Ahmed and Jahangir Akhtar are still having difficulty with their website, it would appear from this recent image, taken from the Rotherham Labour Group website? It is also becoming clear labour’s lack of front…

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Ship of fools?

Originally posted on Rotherham Politics:
This weeks edition of the Rotherham Advertiser, takes Rotherham Council to task on the debt issue. This eye watering debt mountain, will become much more onerous for us to bear, when interest rates rise towards…

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Being a Councillor – It Runs in the Family

In the light of the information regarding the blue badge abuser (thanks Rotherham Politics.wordpress.com) thought readers might be interested in some background information on Ian Barron, brother of our Kevin MP, who is standing as councillor for Keppel Ward in … Continue reading

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cowards flinch?

Originally posted on Rotherham Politics:
Can report that our very own ‘blue badge abuser’ has been named. It is none other than Ian Barron, Kevin Barron’s brother and uncle to Amy Rushforth. I am quite sure that Keppel ward labour…

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