For many of us a high speed internet connection is an increasingly vital part of everyday life. Whether streaming music, TV and films or staying in touch with distant relatives, the ability to connect quickly and seamlessly has transformed the way we live and work.
Many in Fylde will have woken up earlier this week to a blanket of white frost and snow, a spell of winter weather which will once again have focused minds on the cost of energy.
No single event has impacted on us, collectively, more over the past 12 months than the war in Ukraine. In the past week people in Ukraine should have been celebrating the Russian orthodox Christmas.
It has most certainly been a disappointing start to the year for rail passengers here in Fylde, with services along the South Fylde branch cancelled for five straight days due to industrial action.
As 2022 draws to a close it seems a good time to reflect on what was undoubtedly a very eventful year and to look ahead to some exciting moments ahead on 2023.
As 2022 draws to a close it seems a good time to reflect on what was undoubtedly a very eventful year and to look ahead to some exciting moments ahead on 2023.
Fylde MP Mark Menzies has called on fracking firm Cuadrilla to pack up and leave following a bid by the firm to extend it’s planning permission for wells at Preston New Road.
The game is up. The fracking industry has had the opportunity, time and again, to demonstrate this method of extraction can be used safely here in Fylde. As I said in Parliament earlier this year, you cannot keep doing the same thing and expect something different to happen.
The weather over the past few days has certainly taken a wintery turn and while Fylde, at least up to the time of going to press, has avoided the snow which made getting into and around Westminster a little more tricky, there has still been plenty of ice about and I am grateful to the gritter cre
