BIG PICTURE
WHAT you’ve been saying on our Facebook page:
●● NEW four-day Bank Holiday confirmed for next year (June 2):
Lorraine Ashworth: Meaning work as normal.
Karen King: Cheryl Louise King this is what I txt you about... x
Karen Hutchinson: Hannah Em Senga Lindsay Elizabeth Marney party on the pavement?
Senga Lindsay: Karen Hutchinson great minds and all that, I thought exactly the same when I read it online at lunchtime. Definitely up for that
Elizabeth Marney: Karen Hutchinson I’ll remember to bring my dancing shoes back home with me
Emma Triplow: We are just moving May bank holiday for it plus an extra day
Colin Keyes: Emma Triplow any plans for the Prince and Dragon to celebrate?
Bev Nixon: I’m sure all the nursing and care staff will be thrilled not to be getting any extra time off!
Ronald Parker: In between lockdowns Jamie Lee Smith: only good thing the Queen provides us with, a few bank hols every now and then
Kevin James Savory: Apparently the 4 days are Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday.
●● SCHOOLS in Lancashire ‘could close again after half term’ (June 2):
Suzanna Marie: Oh no! fingers crossed it doesn’t happen.
Emma Nield: They shouldn’t be able to do this at such short notice, it will take staff longer to put work into place for homeschooling for one week.
It’s just ridiculous.
Chris Farnworth: Might as well send them straight to work at this rate. The way we are going it will be time for them to leave school. Tracy Ann Williams: What about people who have to go to work that are not key workers, like bar staff, cleaners, mechanics etc. People only get four weeks holidays per year as it is.
●● VILLAGE’S famous The Cottage Bakery looking for new owners (June 4):
Tom Lancaster: Worst news about
Debbie Hartley: It’s the best custard shop ever Antonio Parr: Anna Costanzo Parr custard recipe up for grabs Anna Costanzo Parr: yummy
Quinn Smethurst: Will getting some dosh together for a new venture?
Oliver Molloy: sounds like a plan to me son Will Billington: unreal pies from that place.
●● FLY-TIPPING outbreak leads to new crackdown (May 28):
Karen Thistleton: They should make it easier for people to legally dispose of their rubbish at proper tips or charge less for collections! I don’t condone fly tipping at all and would never do it, I have reported people I saw fly tipping.
But when I wanted to dispose of an old sofa using a rental van, which I was using to collect my new sofas, it was impossible.
The van was too tall to use the public tip and because I didn’t know the registration number of the rental van until the day I could not pre- book into the commercial/ trade tip. Their charges to collect the old sofas were prohibitive. In the end I disposed of it in Manchester for free, where my in- laws live, since they donated their old sofas to us. Lancashire council policies on waste disposal make it too difficult, they are partly to blame for the problem.
Marc Goldring: I was turned away from Haslingden tip during the slightly tighter restrictions due to a glass table ( mostly glass with a couple of thin metal legs) was being classed as metal by the staff, and that meant I had two different types of waste because I had some other bits of glass. Apparently, in an email exchange I was informed the staff have special training to identify what type of waste something is if it is made of mixed substances, yet the public just had to guess and hope they wasn’t turned away - thankfully Accrington tip took it in for us, but it is easy to see why people got in the habit of just dumping things on the way back down from the tip.
Neil Ashman Snr: Karen Thistleton totally agree Nathan McLean: Let’s hope that they act across the board... and target our regular visitors to the area who leave all sorts of waste before leaving the area!
Lynne Pollard: The tip at Stacksteads should never have been closed Thomas Maltsby: Name the scrubber
Michael Aspden: It cost the council 40k?
It would be cheaper to open the tip for longer... Matthew Dempsey: and let vans go
Gary Cunliffe: funny how its always the council’s fault, and not the people actually dumping it for free after charging someone to take it away.