Representatives from the Executive team @ Blackburn Conservatives Association attended a meeting this Thursday along with the Conservative Lancashire Constabulary and Police and Crime Commissioner Andrew Snowden. Recently Commissioner Snowden announced the next phase of £2m ASB hotspot patrols acro

Figures reveal that the government provided 200,000 laptops to vulnerable children to help them access remote learning during the coronavirus lockdown. Another 20,000 were provided to disadvantaged Year 10 pupils to help stop them falling behind with their GCSEs. The laptops were provided to c

Labour’s Exec Member for Regeneration Cllr Phil Riley misled July’s Council Forum over Blackburn Bus Station. Cllr Riley said at Council Forum of the £3.6m overspend on Blackburn Bus Station: “We were presented with a sizeable difficulty when the contractor who was delivering Blackburn Bus Station

The Council have chosen to charge businesses the maximum possible amount to set up tables and chairs on the pavement. Businesses such as pubs and restaurants wanting to help the fight against Covid-19 and encourage social distancing by introducing outdoor seating will have to pay a £100 fee to

Government support made available to residents of BwD via the Council or to the Council itself to help deal with Covid-19 is a huge £79.732m. The figures were revealed in the Council’s Covid-19 Finance Report.

Blackburn bus station actually cost £8.3m, not the £5m that had been thought. This is £3.6m more than the original £4.7m budget. Labour’s Exec Member for Regeneration, Cllr Phil Riley, has blamed the huge £3.6m overspend on changing contractor midway through the project.

Rizwan Ali Shah has joined the Conservative Party. Rizwan, who stood as an independent candidate for Blackburn at the last General Election, announced he was joining the Party at a gathering of supporters and friends at Shahi Qila restaurant on Shear Bank Road. A1TV cameras were pre

Blackburn Conservatives are delighted to announce that Claire Gill has been selected by our members to be Conservative candidate for Blackburn at the next General Election. Claire began her career in the army before becoming an NHS nurse.