Week ending 17th July

20:20 hindsight award of the week goes to borough councillor Mike Gilbert, who writes in the local press of his relief that the redevelopment of West Street is now on hold. "I am afraid that as a conservative, I accept that sometimes some things fail," he writes. What confuses us it that - although it was later in the administration - the development plans for West Street began life under a Tory dominated council.
Happy silly season co-incidence of the week. The Boston Standard, under its "Brighter Boston" banner devotes two pages to events taking place over the summer. The co-incidence? The feature appears just as the councils has issued its own, identical guide. Still, it saves hacks having to work out how to fill the paper!
Talking of what's on events, our high time for a tidy-up award goes to the council's internet what's on guide. An entry for the Boston classic car show, also (we hope inadvertently) published the plea " please add our event ...this is the third time I have sent this information to you." Third time lucky? We think not. The date for the event appears on the calendar for Tuesday 25th August, whilst the entry states it is taking place on Sunday the 9th, which gives you plenty of time to miss it. And if you planned to visit Boston Bike Night on Saturday 25th July, you'll have missed that as well - it took place last week.
Boobies on the beat award. Yet again, that risible claim appears -"Boston's bobbies are coming to your doorstep." The full story behind this latest claim is that the town's Urban West neighbourhood policing team are to hold surgeries at which locals can pop in for a talk, to catch up on crime prevention advice or report a crime. We especially like the idea of reporting a crime on Mondays between 11am and noon (but not on bank holidays) or Wednesday's between 3pm and 4pm. More and more our local PCSOs are following the example of the "real" police to do anything but tread those uncomfortable pavements.
Speaking of Lincolnshire police - they get our nought out of ten award award after coming bottom of the satisfaction survey of the 43 forces in England and Wales in yesterday's British Crime Survey statistics. Apparently they can't explain it, and say their own survey comes up with between 60 and 70 per cent, which is also very worrying. More on this next week

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