Prestwich Local Area Partnership will launch its Love Prestwich Anti-Litter Campaign for the summer which aims to target Prestwich Village Town Centre to promote respect of the environment to residents and businesses to Love Prestwich and keep it clean.

The campaign is aimed at local businesses, schools and residents to work alongside Council officers to make Prestwich a cleaner, safer, greener place to live.

Aims of the Campaign

Raise awareness
- raise awareness of fixed penalties for fly tipping
- encourage residents and businesses to be greener and cleaner
- promote street care team

Take Action
- schools, residents and businesses sign up to the BURY STREET CARE PLEDGE
- educate local businesses on their DUTY OF CARE to legally dispose of business waste
- educational school visits and poster campaign
- community clean up day

Catch’em
- identify hotspots
- encourage reporting
- undertake enforcement where necessary

Do you want to become a Community Champion for Prestwich?
You can sign up to the LOVE Prestwich Anti-Litter Campaign by filling out the form below and handing it in to Prestwich Library, or alternatively contact :
Carran O’Grady (LAP Manager)
Tel: 0161 253 7245 EMail: c.o’grady@bury.gov.uk

You can download an application form http://www.bury.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/1F1891E5-F291-4F06-953F-7497A9B816F8/0/LOVEPrestwichLitterCampaignFlyerweb.pdf

Last night was the Annual General Meeting of the Liberal Democrat Group on Bury Council. As we’re now up to 9 councillors, it was the largest AGM ever! The Councillors agreed a range of appointments and nominations to committees, working groups and outside bodies which will be proposed to the Annual Meeting of the Council which is next Wednesday.

I had the honour of being re-elected as Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group in Bury, a position I’ve held for the last two years. Its a great privilege to be chosen by your fellow councillors to act as their Leader, and I’m looking forward to continuing the development of the Liberal Democrats in Bury in the coming years. Cllr Andrew Garner, one of our team of Sedgley ward councillors was re-elected as Deputy Group Leader.

Tim

Last night I had the honour of accompanying the newest member of the Liberal Democrat Group Councillor Mary D’Albert to the new Councillor’s induction at Bury Town Hall.

Mary will make an excellent Councillor for the St Mary’s ward of Prestwich, joining our existing team there of Donal O’Hanlon and Richard Baum. Mary is the wife of Vic D’Albert who is one of our Councillors here in Holyrood Ward. After 17 years of Vic going to council meetings it will be excellent to have Mary there too!

tim

Liberal Democrats now hold all 9 council seats in Prestwich!
Here’s our new team of Councillors in St Mary’s Ward - Donal O’Hanlon, Mary D’Albert and Richard Baum…… Labour MP Ivan Lewis sneaks past behind.

Lib Dem Councillors elected last night Mary D’Albert, Vic D’Albert and Ann Garner with some of their group colleagues Steve Wright, Wilf Davison and Donal O’Hanlon.

More photos here

Liberal Democrats have continued to move forward on Bury Council making another gain from Labour and holding off a challenges from the Conservatives. This is the fifth election in a row in Bury where we have made gains.

Full results to follow, but in our key wards in Prestwich the results were as follows:

Holyrood
Vic D’Albert (Lib Dem) 1632
Labour 669
Conservative 852

St Mary’s
Mary D’Albert (Lib Dem) 1308
Labour 1013
Conservatives 692

Sedgley
Ann Garner (Lib Dem) 1488
Labour 906
Conservatives 1238

Across Prestwich the share of the vote was:
Liberal Democrats - 45%
Labour 26%
Conservatives 28%

The Liberal Democrats now have ALL NINE councillors in Prestwich. We’ll be doing our best all year round to stand up for the local community.

Across the motorway Lib Dem candidate Julie Baum put in a stunning performance to move into second place with a 50% increase in the Lib Dem vote.
Besses
Julie Baum (Lib Dem) 614
Labour 1084
Conservatives 584
Others 354

Well done to all our candidates, but particularly to re-elected Councillors Vic D’Albert and Ann Garner, and to new Councillor Mary D’Albert.
A huge thank you to the whole Lib Dem campaign team for a stunning result. Full results to follow.

Please don’t forget to vote in the important local elections on Thursday 1 May 2008. These elections will decide who will represent you at the Council for the next four years.

Vic D’Albert, our hard working local councillor for the last 17 years is the Liberal Democrat Focus Team candidate on Thursday.

Important Information
- Polling Stations are open from 7.00am - 10.00pm
- You don’t need your polling card to vote
- If you have a postal ballot, but have not yet sent it in, you can complete it as normal and take the completed envelope to your local polling station on the day.

Polling Stations in Holyrood
Baguley Crescent and Bow Lea - Mobile Van at Baguley Crescent
Simister - Lady Wilton Hall
Polefield, Parenthorn and St Margarets areas - St Margarets CE Centre on St Margarets Road
Heaton Park Area - Heaton Park Social Club, Bury Old Road
Northern area - Nursery Road, Glebelands Road, Langley etc - Prestwich Arts College, Heys Road
“Kirkhams” area (M45 postcodes) - Heaton Park School on Cuckoo Lane

If you need any more information, or need a lift to the polling station call our helpline on 0161 798 0117

Thank you!

Last night I attended a special meeting of Bury Council. The meeting was to agree the “question” to be put to voters in the Mayoral Referendum on 3 July 2008.

Unlike normal meetings of the full Council, which tend to go on till 10pm, the meeting was very short with only one agenda item. Councillors took note tf the responses from members of the public on what things would be like if we had an elected mayor in Bury.

We agreed:
- that the Mayor should work with a “cabinet” of Councillors, including councillors from opposition parties
- that the Council’s “scrutiny” procedures should be improved
- that the Elected Mayor would be the “first citizen” of the Borough, and that the person who Chairs meetings of the Council (currently the “Mayor”) should be known as the “Chair of the Council”.

So now the people of Bury get to decide whether to have an Elected Mayor or not, in a referendum on 3 July 2008. Lib Dems are opposed, and we’ll be campaigning hard to stop this undemocratic waste of money.

tim

Prestwich, April 2008

Dear Neighbour

It’s been my honour to be one of your local councillors for the last 17 years.

Over the years I’ve had the chance to meet and work with many local people on issues that concern you, and working to make this area a better place to live.

Mary and I have chosen to bring up our family in this area and, like you, I care passionately about the future of our community.

Please join me in my campaign to make the Holyrood Ward a thriving and sustainable place for us all.

Cllr Vic D’Albert

PS - Please remember your vote won’t count until its in the ballot box! Polling stations are open on Thursday 1 st May 2008 7am-10pm. If you have a postal vote this must be sent in before 1 May, or handed in at a polling station on 1 st May.
Contact Vic: email: vic@burylibdems.net - phone 0161 773 9905

Five Great Reasons for Voting for Vic D’Albert
1 - Local Candidate
Vic has lived in Prestwich for 25 years and our local councillor for 17 years - he’s the local choice for Holyrood Ward.

2 - Hard Working 
Vic works hard all year round and keeps in touch all year round with “FOCUS” - not just at election time like the others.

3 - Prestwich First
21 years of neglect when Labour ran Bury - local Lib Dems are now delivering more facilities, safer roads and more money for street cleaning.

4 - Environment
Local Lib Dems delivered on Blue Bins for every house last year, and have now secured more money for parks and litter enforcement.

5 - Lib Dems Listen!
Your local Lib Dems listen to local people and take your views seriously. We’ve secured money for a top level public consultation on the future of Prestwich Village.

Election statement to readers of the Bury Times:

Liberal Democrats across Bury have had a brilliant response from local residents. People are telling us that they are fed up of Labour closing post offices, taxing poorer people and watching the economy slide. People are uncertain what the Conservatives stand for, and haven’t noticed any improvement since they took over last year.

Liberal Democrats in Bury have three clear priorities:

We want safe, thriving communities across Bury. People must feel safe in their own streets and communities. This isn’t just about tackling crime, it’s about stronger, united communities. That’s why we’re opposing Post Office closures and why we secured massively increased funding for children in the Council budget. It’s also why we have always opposed the unfair and divisive congestion charge.

We want Bury to be the greenest Metropolitan Borough in Britain. Last year Lib Dems secured blue recycling bins for every house, and this year more money for parks and cleaning. We cherish Bury’s beautiful environment. We will work hard to protect it.

We believe in giving power to local people, not keeping it at the Town Hall. This means that decisions should be made locally in the six towns that make up Bury. It means local people making decisions at the most local level about the services that effect communities.

On May 1st we have a choice - A return to the 21 years of neglect under Labour’s rule in Bury, uncertainty under the Tories, or a clear vision for a better Bury from your local Liberal Democrats.