Well, what an interesting night (or to be more accurate, morning).  Labour have won back control of Telford & Wrekin Council after just one stint in opposition in the history of the town by taking control of 33 out of 54 seats. No UKIP candidates got elected to the borough council but where UKIP candidates [...]

It’s today!  I am standing for election today as a UKIP candidate for the Brookside ward of Telford & Wrekin Borough Council, having been elected unopposed onto the parish council as only 8 people contested the 8 vacancies. It should be an interesting one this.  There are two seats on the borough council up for [...]

Last September I posted some pictures of the police and fire brigade attending  a fire in some low rise flats in the next street to me. It turns out that it was started deliberately by some drunken chav who decided to set fire to her ex-boyfriend’s baseball cap and throw it on a mattress.  She [...]

Here are some pictures and video’s from today’s St George’s Day celebration in Telford Town Centre and Telford Town Park …

I was out walking the dog last night and there were 6 police cars a few doors down from my house.  An hour later there was just one car left that I could see and a driveway was cordoned off with police tape.  Turns out a man and his daughter were found dead last night. [...]

I went to a public meeting last night at the Holiday Inn in Telford on the proposed changes to hospital services in Telford. The main shocker of the night was that David Wright MP not only stayed after the photographers had left but what he said while he was in the meeting actually made sense. [...]

Telford & Wrekin Council have been deciding what services and budgets to cut after the British government cut their block grant by more than expected. What they were talking about on local radio the other day was a bit of a mixed bag. One good idea was requiring parents to opt in to free school [...]

Well, not quite but there was a fire a short time ago in a block of flats in the next street to me. Seven police cars, two fire engines, a paramedic car and two ambulances – the most exciting thing to happen to Brookside since … a fortnight ago when serial arsonists were lighting fires [...]

I’ve not long got back from stewarding a community event in Brookside, Telford called “Health & Harmony”. I’m still none the wiser at where “Harmony” comes into it but the “Health” bit was covered off by the free fruit smoothies that were given out, the healthy eating advice and the demonstrations by Telford Thai Boxing [...]

I was just getting dinner out of the oven when #1 son came knocking on the kitchen window and presented a crying 6 year old boy. After talking to him it turned out that his mum had gone shopping and packed him off to his friend’s house.  He’d changed his mind halfway to his friend’s [...]

Here’s a request from Blists Hill Victorian Town, part of the Ironbridge Gorge museums.  We spend quite a lot of time at Blists Hill and we find something new every time.  They rely on donations and volunteers to keep the museums open and the money will come in useful! I hope that you can help.  [...]

So, how’s your St Georges weekend been so far?  Ours has been busy (not to mention expensive) and it’s not over yet! Yesterday Mrs Sane and I went to my sisters’ pub for a 3 course St Georges Day lunch.  The garlic mushrooms with tomato and goats cheese probably weren’t very English (although garlic was [...]

Some people shouldn’t be allowed to breed, let alone run major engineering projects. Quite a few schools in Telford are being rebuilt and one of them is a few miles away from where I live.  The council have chosen a hill covered in woodland as the site of the playing fields for this new school.  [...]

Yesterday I got a call from Mrs Sane who was out on the road asking me to phone the police for her and tell them that some clever person had lobbed a traffic cone off an island onto the dual carriageway below and that just after the cone was a broken down and the two [...]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  My MP (until May if he manages to hang on that long) David Wright has landed himself in a spot of bother with his inappropriate use of Twitter.  It was inevitable really, he’s been at it for some time now. There’s been a bit of a tweetmeme going on [...]

The Shropshire Star evidently thought my wheelie bin “upset” was newsworthy as well as the BBC … Man sends out council ‘fine’ over bin upset A Telford man has sent his own “funny” fine of £75 to the council over his wheelie bin being left in the street.  He said he was annoted that the [...]

I thought the media silly season was over now the British government are off their 3 month holidays but apparently not.  Either that or my wheelie bin story is more interesting than I thought. On Tuesday a BBC reporter turned up at my house unannounced wanting to talk to me about the wheelie bins.  He [...]

The council left my bins out in the road again today, forcing Mrs Sane to stop in the road and move them before she could park in the drive. They’re taking the piss now, but I have a cunning plan … Once again my bins have not been put back at the end of my [...]

I walked up the Wrekin today with Mrs Sane, three of the kids and Charlie (the dog). For those of you not familiar with the Wrekin, it’s a 978ft hill on the outskirts of Telford in Shropshire.  It’s not the most challenging walk for most people but as you may know, both my knees are [...]

Transforming Telford, the unelected and expensive “regeneration” quango set up by Telford & Wrekin Council and a couple of unelected regional quangos, has had its “contract” withdrawn. The previous Liebour administration at Telford & Wrekin Council was responsible for setting up the quango that costs Telford council taxpayers a million pounds a year.  In return [...]