Roger Ibbs

Posted by Mike Rawlins
Councillor Roger Ibbs the Karaoke King of Stoke-on-Trent is hosting a Charity Race Night for the Lord Mayors charities, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf and Child Victims of Crime at the Jubilee Hall in Stoke tonight Tickets cost just £10 per person and include a pie and pea supper with all the proceeds going to the charities. There will also be an auction of Sporting Memorabilia and a raffle during the night. There are opportunities to sponsor the races and the runners & riders.
Posted by Tony Walley
A Race Night has been organised in aid of the Lord Mayor, Cllr Jean Bowers charities on Wednesday 3rd February at the Jubilee Hall in Stoke. Tickets cost just £10 per person and include a pie and pea supper. There will also be an auction of Sporting Memorabilia. There are opportunities to sponsor the races and the runners and riders. The evening is being hosted by Cllr Roger Ibbs.

This is the submission that I have put to the Boundary Committee: I present to you my views as Deputy Leader of the Conservative and Independent Alliance Group of the City Council. You will by now be aware of the difficulty the City Council had in coming to a united decision on how to organise the warding arrangements based on a 45 member council at the Council meeting of the 7th. January. What there was a united view that a 45member council was too small.

The Meadow Lane estate is in Trentham, just North of Longton Road, at the border with the current Blurton ward, separated from it by the railway line. On 4th January 2010 a public meeting was held at Trentham High School, organised by ordinary residents in the Meadow Lane area of Trentham, about the council’s views on new ward boundaries.

Dan Barton’s non-attendance of a committee meeting of his council raises a number of questions. Many may criticise the City Council led by Labour some 10 or 15 years ago, but I can say without question, that a committee or chair at that time would never have accepted such a position. (Sorry Ibbsy)
Posted by Tony Walley
VIDEO INTERVIEW The Head of the Press and Communications Department at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Dan Barton was heavily criticised by the Chair of the Transformation & Resources Committee Roger Ibbs, for his no show at a meeting to scrutinise his departmental strategy and 3year plan. Head of Member Services Elaine Bates along with Terry Follows the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Communications did their best to answer members questions and grievances but both looked grossly under

Well this story has been scrutinised more closely than Tiger Woods's mobile phone bill! It is probably the story of the year, the action really started in February this year. The story's origin goes even further back and is now indisputably linked to the absurd attempted closure of the popular splash pool at Dimensions leisure centre in Burslem.
Posted by Tony Walley
A Standards Committee has today accepted a report which completely exonerates Cllr Roger Ibbs from any wrong doing during the investigation into the Dimensions fiasco. The report provided the Committee with an opportunity to consider whether there any Standards issues remaining following the conclusion of the Staffordshire Police Investigation.
Posted by Tony Walley
A report to the Standards Committee which meet on the 9th December 2009 completely exonerates Cllr Roger Ibbs from any wrong doing during the investigation into the Dimensions fiasco. The report is to provide the Committee with an opportunity to consider whether there any Standards issues remaining following the conclusion of the Staffordshire Police Investigation. There had been a number of allegations concerning the proposed closure of the Council run splash pool facilty at Dimensions Leisure

Sometimes when you broadcast or write an article you often find yourself wondering whether you should be saying or writing what you are thinking – if you catch my drift. Today is one of those days, I find myself thinking, oh dear this one isn’t going to go down too well. But do you no what? When you have a certain strength of feeilng over an issue, or a comment that needs to be aired, you just have to go with the flow and let it all out.

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