IT was one of New Labour's best known mantras - but have the party's councillors in Skelmersdale now ditched "education, education, education"? Conservative County Cllr David O'Toole is posing the question after being met with a wall of silence from new Labour councillors, whom he asked to consider becoming school governors.
Labour councillors last night voted AGAINST a succcessful Conservative proposal to stop pay and display being introduced in Burscough.
Labour also tried to block a Conservative amendment which saved the Borough Council's popular Community Chest from being axed, as well as voting against increasing frontline enforcement on dog fouling and litter.
Six community facilities in Skelmersdale and Ormskirk could be taken over and run by voluntary groups under plans to devolve more power to grassroot organisations by West Lancashire's Conservative Borough Council.
West Lancashire communities are set to be given the opportunity to take over the day to day running of borough council-owned community facilities as part of a radical decentralisation of power.
A SPECIAL reception was held in honour of two former West Lancashire Conservative councillors who have given more than 50 years of dedicated public service between them.
A £4m investment by Conservative-run West Lancs Borough Council means that 1,200 tenants are likely to have cheaper heating bills this winter. The move will also create jobs and Apprenticeship places.
