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Kidgrove Town Council to Increase Council Tax by £2000 |
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 We have been informed that Labour Controlled Kidsgrove Town Council is proposing to increase the Kidsgrove Part of your council tax to raise £2000 to pay for a Youth Council. No doubt this project has the backing of Kidsgrove Mayor and Astle family member Kyle Robinson, who is also an employee at Clough Hall Technology School. Kidsgrove Town Council appears to be really interested in this ideas of a Youth Council, despite the fact that taxpayers are already paying for the nationally recognised Youth Parliament programme that takes place in schools all over the UK. This scheme is exceptionally successful in Staffordshire and has a sound resource base behind it.
It is once again not clear how the vast £2000 sum would be spent on this project or what the actual intended outcomes would be? If these are not vastly different from those of the existing Youth Parliament scheme then taxpayers and students will all be asking "what is the point?". It is times like this when we should be expecting value for money, however it is becoming increasingly easy to find stories of how the Labour Controlled Kidsgrove Town Council keeps wanting to spend money and reduce the quality of life for all local residents of Kidsgrove.
Some other Councillors are worried that this money could be used to influence the political views of young people, something that will be increasingly hard to avoid if any programme like this is run by a council which increasingly controlled by one political party. |
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Kidsgrove Town Council Wastes £990 of Taxpayers Money |
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 It was reported last week that Labour Controlled Kidsgrove Town Council is wasting £990 of taxpayers money on a grant to the Friends of Talke Library group. Kidsgrove Town Mayor and member of the Astle family Kyle Robinson supports this plan to hand out £990 of your money to the Friends of Talke Library group, to spend on the reported vague plans.
Kidsgrove Town Council has reportedly handed out the £990 to be spent on two different projects for the Friends of Talke Library group. It is planned that £400 of taxpayers money is going to be handed to an author to talk to the group members. This is £400 of our money being handed out to a private individual. Would the Friends of Talke Library group spend this sort of money on an author if they had to invest their own private funds?
They will spend the remaining funds on holding five arts and crafts events. Again questions can be asked about why each event will cost over £100 in total, especially in tough times when many local residents are wanting to see Kidsgrove Town Council spending money to benefit the whole Kidsgrove area and not just a select few.
Many questions still remain unanswered about the award of this money from Kidsgrove Town Council to The Friends of Talke Library group;
- Who is the author who is costing £400?
- What benefits will this talk bring to the taxpaying residents of Kidsgrove?
- How many members does the Friends of Talke Library group have?
- Are any of the members of the Friends of Talke Library Group members of the Kidsgrove Labour Party or friends with member of the Kidsgrove Labour Party?
- How much money has the group raised pro-actively before this grant?
Supporting the Kidsgrove community can only be a good thing, however handing out such vast amounts of money to such a select few in the community, doesn't seem fair or a good way to spend Kidsgrove taxpayers money. |
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 It has been reported that today is the day that Newchapel Club has closed down. The Club which was known in its later years at The Club at Newchapel and for many years Newchapel Working Mens Club has been struggling for many years, mainly as a result of changing consumer habits. The previous owner purchased the site for a reported £250,000 and ran the business under its new name. It appears though that this was not enough to save the club and today it has been boarded up and the for sale signed placed outside.
Clearly this is a sad day for Newchapel Club and residents are naturally concerned about the anti social behaviour this may now attract. |
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 Kidsgrove is currently experiencing high levels of snow fall, like many parts of the local area. Despite the efforts of Staffordshire County Council gritting teams it appears that many roads in the Kidsgrove area are snow covered this evening. We can only advise that people do not travel, unless they have to.
Staffodshire County Councillor for Kidsgrove Mary Maxfield informed us that the gritters were out 3 times in an 11 hour period yesterday. It appears that the drifting nature of the snow, combined with low traffic levels didn't help to clear the roads which had been salted. We can now report that all the main roads in Kidsgrove have now been cleared, which no doubt will the result of one further grit treatment.
I think we all have to expect travel disruption when it snows as salting only works when traffic is driving on it. |
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Dog Injured in Kidsgrove RTA |
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Officers from Kidsgrove are appealing for witnesses after a dog was injured in a collision yesterday.
The collision happened at approximately 5.10pm on Sunday 8 January on King Street and involved a new shaped medium size light blue or silver Ford vehicle.
The dog suffered significant injuries and is currently receiving appropriate veterinary treatment.
The investigating officer, PC Christopher McCarthy, is appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision to come forward and is also asking the driver of the Ford vehicle to contact him.
Witnesses are asked to contact PC McCarthy at Staffordshire Police on 101 quoting incident number 468 of January 8. |
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