I think she is related to the Gibson brothers... Les and Paul.

On a serious note there has been more meat put to the bones of the Localism bill over the weekend.
I honestly believe NM could (and should) be used as a shining example to other councils of how to fund essential local facilities in a time when the purse strings are tight enough to snap!

If we look at ours and Salford's projects as isolated case studies:
Case A has been funded virtually by local council borrowing, while case B will be funded from the private sector by a rather large section 106 agreement.
One of the cases in the eyes of our political leaders harks back to the days of new Labour and run away borrowing, while the other has been developed in a cooperative & proactive manner between the local council and local developer.

Question; which fit's with the "BIG SOCIETY" we're hearing so much of these days?

Face the future? Face that only a Mother could love more like!

Seriously though, how ironic is that name Face the Future!!

I certainly hope there will be some positive news soon. There just seems to be an assumption in so many threads on message boards that it will be us getting booted out when the next franchises come along (Cas hardly ever mentioned for some strange reason). We need a big boost and SOON.

Fortunately the people discussing licenses on the various forums don't get to choose who's in and who's out.

If the stadium is a goer there will still be the sceptics, but if it does come off and Trinity do get a license then it will make it all the more sweeter knowing how many people Trinity are p!ssing off just by refusing to go away.

That's our bread and butter Khlav! We draw strength from being written off!!

Print em off & post em up on them dressing room wall!
I honestly believe that adversity breeds character! And like you said pal, it makes it all the more sweet when it does come off and your still standing!!

Hope this snipit from mr pickles today dont effect either of our stadiums
"More power for local people to overrule planning decisions, decide where new homes should go and protect green spaces"

The way he's going what the are the government going to be doing. You cant have the patients running the asylum, thats why we are supposed to have elected representatives.

15,000 of us decided a long time ago mate.
Why should 150 people (who live outside the city) have any say on NM.

Localism doesn't help the residents of Methley at all. If anything it's our golden bullet!

There's just been a news item discussing this and from what I can tell it would actually work in our favour.

Very basically, it seems to be a system whereby private developers are allowed to build their projects as long as they agree to provide the community with new or improved facilities as part of their planning application.

For example a housebuilder may get planning permission to build 20 new houses as long as he agrees to pay for the creation of a new road junction complete with pelican crossing.

When you look at Newmarket it fits almost hand in glove with this new initiative.