Category: Fleetwood

The Fleetwood ‘Smell’: A Letter to the Gazette


Eric Ollerenshaw with local councillor Margie Birkett and County Council candidate, Alaina McArdle, at the entrance to United Utilities in Fleetwood.

Eric Ollerenshaw, Fleetwood’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, writes to the Gazette following the news that United Utilities made a pre-tax profit of £475.6 million.

Sir,

Interesting reading today that United Utilities has announced an underlying profit before tax of £475.6 million, 17% up on last year!

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Goverment Tourism Cuts ‘Hinders’ Regeneration



Eric Ollerenshaw on the sea wall at Fleetwood

Eric Ollerenshaw, Fleetwood’s Conservative Party Candidate, has said the Government is ‘hindering’ efforts by Wyre Council to regenerate Fleetwood after officials announced a £10 million cut to ‘VisitBritain’.

VisitBritain, the national body responsible for attracting visitors to UK tourist destinations such as Fleetwood, will loose just over a 5th of its budget by 2011.

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Eric Pens Canatxx Letter to Fleetwood Residents


Eric Ollerenshaw on the sea wall at Fleetwood

“I am not one of these politicians who try to jump on the bandwagon and though I realise the result is due to years of hard work by the local community and politicians, I would still like to express my absolute joy at the decision by the Government to give the thumbs down to Canatxx’s gas storage bid.

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Brown’s Inspectors to Tax Fleetwood’s Pub Quiz Nights



Eric Ollerenshaw on the sea wall at Fleetwood

Eric Ollerenshaw, Fleetwood’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, sounded the alarm today at covert plans by Gordon Brown to tax pub quiz nights across Fleetwood.

New Parliamentary Questions have forced the Valuation Office Agency – an arm of the Inland Revenue – to publish its secretive tax handbook for the start of the business rates revaluation next year.

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Eric’s ‘Winter Campaign’ Post Office Call



Eric Ollerenshaw signing our 'Keep our Post Offices Open' Campaign.

Fleetwood’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Eric Ollerenshaw, has called for a ‘winter campaign’ from Postmasters and Post Office users in order to defend Post Offices in the town.

The former History teacher’s plea comes after the Government announced that in January 2008, the list of proposed Post Office closures in Fleetwood will be publicly released.

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Fleetwood’s Future: Eric Pens Open Letter



Alistair Burt MP with Eric Ollerenshaw and Cllr Mark Hamer

Lancaster and Fleetwood’s Parliamentary Candidate, Eric Ollerenshaw, has penned an open letter encouraging Fleetwood’s residents to offer their views on the Regeneration Masterplan.

“Since becoming your Conservative Parliamentary candidate in March and knocking on many doors in the town, I have heard the following quite a lot – ‘Fleetwood has been forgotten!’.

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Campaign to Stop Canatxx

Preesall Salt CavernsEric Ollerenshaw, the Prospective Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, has pledged to keep up pressure on Gordon Brown over proposals by the American Gas storage firm Canatxx to bury millions of tons of gas under the Wyre coastline.

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Your Views Matter after Election Success


Eric Ollerenshaw with Fleetwood Conservatives

Fleetwood Conservatives would like to thank their many supporters after the successful May elections.

The Conservatives gained 11 new seats on Wyre Council taking their total to 45 out of 55. In Fleetwood, 4 new seats have been won; all three in Warren Ward and one in Park Ward.

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