Funeral of Darwen’s poet laureate

Sadly  Jim Atherton died last week.  Jim was well known in Darwen and across Lancashire for his dialect poetry.  He won many competitions and awards as well as raising large sums of money for charity through his poetry.  Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and his many friends.  His funeral is at Spring Vale Church on Monday 23 May 2016

Jim Atherton in costume reading one of his dialect poems

Jim Atherton in costume reading one of his dialect poems

Jack’s Key Drive resurfaced at last

Lib Dem Councillors in the Whitehall Ward are delighted that the entrance to the Jack’s Key Estate is being repaired and resurfaced at last. Cllr Karimeh Foster said, we and local residents have been campaigning for this for over a year as the road had deteriorated a lot, we are pleased that at last the work is being done.

However we do question the fact that a small repair was done to the road just a few weeks before thew whole of it was resurfaced – this was a complete waste of money.”