10:52am Friday 19th March 2010
By Catherine Pye
A ROW between two Darwen councillors has broken out after one claimed the town was ‘falling to the back of the queue’ in the borough council’s priorities.
Labour councillor Dave Hollings made the comments after finding Darwen road repairs scheduled for to finish before April 1 had been delayed, while similar schemes in Blackburn had gone ahead.
But Marsh House councillor Simon Huggill, who is lead member for resources on the borough council, has hit back.
Coun Huggill said: “Dave Hollings has really upset me with this. I’m furious.
“He’s just trying to make cheap political points, that’s all.
“When you’re doing road repairs it makes sense to have all your workmen and machinery in the same place, not dotted here, there and everywhere.
“The only reason the Darwen work has been delayed is because they were all scheduled to be done together when the bad snow and ice happened.”
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