Last night in Colwyn Bay

In case you've been hibernating (and who could blame you:-)) David Jones MP arranged a public meeting to discuss the Colwyn Bay Pier last night and it was swamped, with a long queue outside of folk wanting to express their opinions but unable to get in.  CCBC, of course, was noticeably absent, having been invited twice by David Jones, but then - what did we expect? As always, the redoubtable Jason Weyman did go and has published an exhaustively detailed record of the meeting on his blog. 

Quote of the night has to go the absentee Friends of the Pier chairman, Cllr Chris Hughes who said “This county is in a financial mess. The £10m capital costs to buy the pier would be no problem. It’s running costs that would be a problem when you think of opening libraries, kids in schools or running a pier" thus continuing to demonstrate a marked lack of awareness of just about everything. Well, at least it's good to know that CCBC has a spare £10m lying around.

Let's hope our curiously lackadaisical CC now start to debate things in earnest and not assume that they can do what they like, when they like and how they like.