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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

I understand you live in Rishton so my offer to you would be to get in touch and tell me what you want doing. My contact details have been posted through your door often enough if you do happen to live in this fine village so feel free to use them.

Councillors can only work with the information they are given so if there is a problem they may not necessarily know about it. Cllr Grayson and myself regularly go on walkabouts through Rishton to log any problems (fly-tipping, derelict houses, potholes, etc) but there are many other things to consider as well.

In May, I set up a petition for a replacement post box that Royal Mail have taken from lower Rishton, I'm campaiging for a 20mph zone down Parker Street that all the residents want, we've signed off extra dogs bins and street lighting that residents have been asking for for years, I've built a rockery to improve a little public garden area.....the list goes on.

I appreciate the view that some members of the public have of councillors but we're not all on the make. Unless your name is Peter Britcliffe, there simply isn't the money to make any sweeping changes for the better.

Some of us still have the integrity that led us into politics in the first place so if you have an idea then voice it, don't just criticise for the sake of it.

And some fell on Stoney Ground