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Ged Clarke: Summer Bin Collection

I am reliably informed that the question currently being asked at the school gates is:

'When does the summer dustbin collection start?'

Mothers are already conscious of nappy smells, and this when summer temperatures are below average.

One young mother is so concerned that she has already had her husband wash out their dustbin in order to ensure it cannot become a health hazard for her children.

Sadly, he will have to do it many times before the summer ends.

Labour has cut this excellent and much appreciated Conservative summer service, for purely political reasons.

This has to be the explanation because we know from the Council Budget, which was passed earlier this year, that money is available.

You might ask the local Labour MP, who is implacable about what he sees elsewhere as assaults on frontline services, why he is not pressing his Labour colleagues for the return of the summer dustbin collection.

We can expect him to remain as silent as their Manifesto on the subject. There will be no concern expressed for the lost job opportunities resulting from Labour’s decision to remove the service.

Help may be on hand in the form of Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary. He remains determined to reintroduce weekly bin collections. He points to an increase in rat and insect infestations along with a rise in fly tipping.

How long before this local Labour policy vents similar problems on the hedgerows of Gedling?

Ged Clarke is a Conservative Nottinghamshire County Councillor for Arnold North.

This months edition of the Nottinghamshire Conservatives in touch newsletter.

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Nottinghamshire Conservatives

Invite you to their post-election Curry Club

Wednesday 15th June 2011 7.30pm
at the

Mogal E Azam Tandoori Restaurant

7-9 Goldsmith St Nottm

Tickets £15.00

(profits going to your local Conservative Association)

With guest speaker

Our old friend David Surtees

“Political Debates - Having Your Say”

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MAYOR OF GEDLING

Ravenshead people may have noticed that Patricia Andrews was re-elected on the 5th.May as a Ravenshead Parish Councillor and as a District Councillor for the villages of Papplewick, Linby and Newstead - and people who know her will be aware that these positions are the reward for the hard work and commitment she has delivered over the previous four years.

What we have just discovered, however, is that Patricia will be appointed as Mayor of Gedling Borough Council at the Annual Meeting of the Authority on the 18th. May 2011. They say that lightening never strikes the same place twice, but in our case it has. Ravenshead’s Raj Chandran also held the position of Mayor during his period of office as a District Councillor between 2003 and 2007.

There is a new national trend to appoint City Mayors - like the Mayor of London, or New York or even Mansfield – but the Mayor of Gedling Borough has neither a political position nor one in which the occupant controls the policy of the Council. In our case Borough policy decisions are controlled by the Leader of the Council.

However, the traditional Gedling Mayoral role is critically important in that Patricia will be the external face of the Authority with the responsibility of communicating with the wider public, delivering information from the Council and effectively providing a dialogue between Councillors and the citizens in the Borough`s urban areas and all the Parishes. Our Gedling Mayor is on call to attend hundreds of official visits during the year of office – from cutting tapes at new facilities, to meeting residents in Nursing Homes, Childrens` Christmas parties, significant Birthday Celebrations etc. Patricia will also participate in meetings with "The Chain Gang" – this group is the collection of all the Mayors from across Nottinghamshire who attend dinners and celebrations and meet with visiting dignitaries. She will also attend the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. The other significant role Patricia will have is to act as the Chairman of Full Council Meetings, which can sometimes need a firm steadying hand – and to report back to Council on external Mayoral activities.

Councillor Patricia Andrews is going to be pretty busy in the next year, wearing the Mayor`s Chain of Office, but she will have the support of her husband Bruce acting as the Mayor`s Escort. Tradition requires also that the Mayor gives active support to a charity during the year of office and Patricia has identified Prostate Cancer Research at the City Hospital as her chosen charity.

We feel sure that Ravenshead people will wish Patricia every success in her role as Mayor of Gedling Borough and that, despite being perhaps very tired at the end of it all, she will retain a host of happy memories of her memorable Mayoral Year.

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