PLEASE STICK TO SPEED LIMIT

THIS letter is directed at the people that live in Cowpe and the motorists that use Cowpe Road.

This road has a 20mph speed limit because it is a small country road.

There is a park and children’s play area with a concealed entrance and exit that a child can run out of at any time.

Also, on occasions, they can be livestock on the road as Cowpe is a farming community.

Please remember this when you are driving a speed on this small village road before someone is killed or badly injured.

Thank you. Cowpe Resident

LORRIES ONLY ON WHITE LINES

BEWARE all ye who frequent the Haslingden Health Centre, and who usually park in the road outside.

The area designated by white lines outside the centre is not for private car parking, nor yet for disabled drivers with blue badges.

No, dear patient, this area is reserved for lorries to load and unload. So, park there at your peril – tickets have been issued!

Be warned. Noël Broadgate, Helmshore

WHEN THE DUP BACKED BROWN

THE motion proposed by Labour members at the July council meeting to condemn the agreement by the DUP to support some of the government’s policies brought forth comments that this is not

DEFENDING doomed Scout Moor expansion case hits Rossendale council in the pocket again (‘Inquiry cost us £60k – council’) Phillippa Christie: This is central government stripping money from the council, backed by the way that politics is done here (‘Opposition walk out over DUP debate, July 21).

While I have no liking for ideological views expressed by the DUP, Labour members have conveniently forgotten the recent history of deals done by their own party.

Since councillors raised the topic let me turn back the clock to 2008 when Gordon Brown was prime minister.

Labour had negotiated with all the Northern Irish parties and successfully brokered the St Andrews Agreement that brought peace to the province.

Brown now wanted to push through an antiterror measure of a 42-day period of MP Jake Berry. Looking to point the finger? Look to the Tories who then overturned the decision of LCC to frack. Tony Winder: So you call stripping money from the council is the fault of the elected government...so who is responsible for the detention before trials.

His left-wing party rebels were unsupportive and the political situation was in chaos after the 10p tax debacle and the loss of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.

Labour members reported that they were cajoled by an extreme amount of arm-twisting and horse-trading. One Labour MP was brought in to vote despite recovering from surgery and another from his cancer ward.

Despite all these measures the bill was passed – only with the help of nine votes from the DUP.

The whole story is told in Andrew Rawnsley’s definitive history, The AAAW housing fiasco £3.5M (and counting) and the expected income from the Scout Moor Windfarms which was contested by the residents and decided by a planning inspector... Peter Steen: How many times must it be said it was an independent End of the Party. As he says, the Labour government had turned around the province and there were splendid new buildings, dockside developments and restaurants, so no wonder that the DUP was happy to keep the peace process on line and support the bill.

Would today’s Labour members have wished it otherwise?

Yes, the north west deserves more money and this government is actively encouraging investment here.

It’s a pity that the current Labour party is so dogmatic and denigrates all progress. Alan Jowett Address supplied inspector who made the decision? Sean Helliwell: Looks like Bacup town centre won’t be getting a makeover any time soon. Steve Chappell: The only commodity in Rossendale is wind and water. You can forget the sun.