BOLTON West MP Chris Green and Cllr Anna-Marie Watters are calling on Bolton Council to address traffic concerns in Daisy Hill. A Temporary Road Closure notice for Leigh Road, Westhoughton has been published for a period of approximately 12 months. The Government has invested £2.5m to repair the bridge at Daisy Hill Station, with the council planning to divert all traffic via Wearish Lane. Local residents have aired concerns about this plan with their local MP and Cllr Watters who are working together to get clarity on traffic proposals from Bolton Council. Chris Green MP said: “I am very disappointed that Leigh Road will be closed for months.
THE Labour opposition on Bolton Council has said it does not wish to make political capital’ amid a crisis for the ruling Conservative group which has seen two of their councillors quit the party and the breakdown of a working agreement with Liberal Democrats. On Tuesday, Conservative councillors Beverley Fletcher, who represents Breightmet and Diane Parkinson, one of the members for Hulton, resigned from the Tories and will sit as independents. In another blow to the minority Conservative controlled authority, the Lib Dems, who have seven Bolton councillors, ended their working arrangement with the Tories, citing their adoption to the fold of another political defector, Anna Marie Watters, a councillor for Westhoughton South, who joined the Conservative group after sitting as an independent.
Bolton Tories in turmoil as two councillors quit party and Liberal Democrats end working agreement We don’t feel Bolton Council has stood up to the government enough to support and protect Bolton
15:41, 14 JAN 2021
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Diane Parkinson, a councillor for the Hulton ward, has quit the Tory group (Image: LDRS)
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Ex-Labour councillor explains her decision to join the Conservatives
Councillor Anna-Marie Watters raised eyebrows when she suggested that she has been a long-time Tory voter despite representing the Labour Party
10:18, 13 JAN 2021
Anna-Marie Watters, councillor for Westhoughton South (Image: LDRS)
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An ex-Labour councillor has defended her decision to join the Conservatives, saying that her former party is poles apart from where it was when she joined in 2010.