For Mr Pendle's sources tell him the council plans to put up one or more noticeboards in the town on which to advertise its meetings.
What is wrong with the noticeboard outside the town hall where the council meets and where Pendle Council meetings have been advertised for years?

Why can't the agendas also be put up in the library, the police station, the leisure centre, the market hall glasshouse and a few shops with noticeboards (Mr Pendle knows of a popular chippy with one) without the need for all this expense, which will inevitably be paid for by Mr Pendle and other Colners out of precepts added on to next year's council tax bills?

And even more bizarrely, the council is looking for a logo to use on its agendas and letterheads.

Could Mr Pendle offer a suggestion – at no cost?

What is wrong with the original Colne coat of arms and its "We Long Endure" motto which served the town so well for years?

Some of these town councillors must be suffering from delusions of grandeur if they think people have any interest in their pontificating (they are even said to be looking at ways at increasing public participation in their meetings).

Councillors should bear in mind that the council was only set up at the behest of a minority of Colners – so its members should strive to keep its expenditure to a bare minimum.

The squandering of money on noticeboards and logos, which would no doubt have to look the part and therefore not come cheap, is something which should be resisted – especially as Mr Pendle has come up with ample suggestions as to how the council could announce itself for free.


DID you know that Pendle Council has a street map which indicates which lampposts can be used to advertise forthcoming events?

Did you know that if you commit the heinous sin of picking the wrong lamppost to put up an advert, you will be fined £38 plus VAT?
Did you know that lamppost advertisements can only be put up for five days prior to an event?

No, neither did Mr Pendle until he feLl into conversation with a member of the Colne Gala Committee the other evening.

Which caused him to ask himself – what is the difference between a lamppost poster, a board stuck in the side of the road advertising an event (last month's Foulridge Fun Day and next month's Trawden Show are two examples) and the posters outside the Muni in Colne advertising the rhythm and blues festival?