Economic Growth - encouraging British Chambers of Commerce growth forecast - Positive signs locally and nationally

Interesting to see how Ed Balls reacts to this.

UK to surpass pre-crisis levels earlier than expected according to BCC. Read more via @TelegraphNews http://t.co/VHsi8I2uHq
— BCC (@britishchambers) March 10, 2014

He is likely to advocate the same old Labour approach of more spending, more borrowing and more taxes. They will hurt hardworking people with higher mortgage rates and they will hurt the long-term future of the country.

That is if people give them the chance.

Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust - time for our MPs to own up.

When are our four local MPs going to publish the promises that were made about provision of service when they pushed through the PFI deal? We now see the deal has put our hospitals into such a parlous state and has created a debt mountain that MYHT struggles with to make the payments and provide the range and quality of services that we were promised and expect.

We need to see the PFI cancelled or renegotiated and we will only have a chance of doing that if they finally are completely transparent about the backroom deals that they agreed.

People across the district are suffering as a result of their failure to hold MYHT to account.

Or do they have something that they would rather not tell us about their actions?

Time to own up then!

Apprenticeships giving our young people a future.

Apprenticeships are a vital part of our #LongTermEconomicPlan. RT to support giving young people the skills they need pic.twitter.com/YUhCCb4UFZ
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) March 4, 2014

Welcome to Pontefract!

Steeped in history and heritage, a former royal castle that was called the key to the north by Edward I. Religious houses, chapels and churches, fairs and festivals. Former royal hunting grounds, the longest flat race course in Europe, three railway stations, art deco museum, very much a gem. Busy library, swimming pool and historic town hall with links to Nelson's greatest victory and death. Court House and court room and site of the first parliamentary election by secret ballot.

A busy market place, craft, food, boutiques an indoor market, ginnels with tea and coffee shops, picturesque Valley Gardens a Victorian dispensary raised by public subscription.

Any ideas where that is?

There is a clue in the picture.

Support our local heritage.

Come and look at what Edward 1st described as the Key to the North and frightened Oliver Cromwell so much that he had it made indefensible.

Pontefract Pool Users Group Meeting - Keep Swimming at Pontefract

Jeff Allinson has called a meeting of the Pontefract Pool Users Group for this coming Wednesday the 5th at 5pm in the community room in Pontefract Library to discuss the Leisure report on the five towns pools that WMDC commissioned.

Of the three pools that are being targeted in the 5 towns, Pontefract is in best condition, busiest and being adjacent to the Town Centre and the Bus Station and with ample parking facilities its loss will be felt. Closing it as part of a plan to replace the three with a single new facility at Glasshoughton, on the Prince of Wales site or on Pontefract Park seems just barmy.

Whatever happens I want to see the best facility in Pontefract for our residents. We have up to 4000 new homes to be built in our part of the world and I am sure that the new residents would join with existing ones in the message Keep Swimming at Pontefract!

See you there?