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Useful feedback from Rothwell residents

Fantastic response to the Rothwell Rose community survey! The completed forms have been coming back in their droves which tells me that folks in Rothwell, Woodlesford, Carlton and Oulton want to be consulted on what their priorities and issues are. Residents would like to be shown more respect and want other people to take responsibility

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Wood Lane evening bus update

I first highlighted the issue of the Wood Lane evening buses which have not been running since August 2005 back in January in the Yorkshire Evening Post and took up the fight to get the bus back on behalf of the residents of the Wood Lane Estate, who felt that they had been forgotten about.

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Road safety campaign first success

Road traffic and the danger to young people

The Rothwell Labour Action Team is getting a huge response to the road safety campaign. A resident who works at the scene in road accidents and sees the horrors at first hand has told us that he’s delighted that we’re campaigning on speeding and road safety. We’re continuing to collect names on the petition and

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Lib Dems snub road safety campaigners

Despite the snow, many concerned residents braved the elements to attend last Friday’s public meeting about road safety. Those attending included local campaigners Gerard Khoshnaw, Trish Bromilow and Ian Summerfield, as well as other local residents. Both Colin Challen, Labour MP for Morley and Rothwell, and myself put forward practical ideas for what we could

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Appeal for powers to stop bus service cuts

It’s quite right that councillors on Leeds City Council’s Transforming Services scrutiny board are calling for new laws to give local authorities more power to stop bus companies from being able to pull the plug on services they judge not to be profitable.

They want MPs to lobby the Government for a change in legislation so

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Let’s stop the lorries now before it’s too late

People power calls for new Rothwell bus

Hundreds call for action to tackle danger roads in Rothwell, Woodlesford, Oulton and Carlton

We have had an amazing response since starting the road safety
petition in November. It’s obviously of great concern to residents that
the situtation with speeding cars and lorries seems to be getting worse
in our area. We’re calling for action because we don’t want to wait for
the worst to happen before anyone does anything about it.

The issue

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Protests over axing of Wood Lane Estate evening buses