MY New Year resolution is not to procrastinate anymore ... I will start in February.

Resolutions for many of us go in one year and out the other.

Here's my Inferno Wirral wish list for 2016. I resolve to report on their progress.

Everything the residents and voters want - they should get.

More transparency from local and national politicians.

Let's get rid of "mushroom government" where we are all kept in the dark and fed manure.

I want to know how council leader Phil Davies is progressing with his 2020 Vision or will he need to go for regular check ups to Specsavers.

We all want the WBC to cut down on overpaid outside consultants and use more in-house staff.

The campaign on litter louts is bringing in revenue - but it needs to be re-evaluated.

Why are some over-zealous enforcement officers so heavy-handed?

The Wirral Globe story of a man who was fined for dropping a bookmark was a classic blunder that should never happen again.

By the way, shouldn't the council fine itself for the ugly site of bins that overspill at weekends?

I want to see the threatened Woodside Ferry Terminal remain. Gerry Marsden's song just won’t be the same.

One of the most heart-warming stories of the year came from Birkenhead School whose students collected so much for the Wirral Foodbank.

A lesson to us all that charity begins at home.

We need more stories like this.

I want to see the Freedom of Information Act protected not diluted.

We need it more than ever to bring politicians to account.

We have had Live Aid, Band Aid, so how about introducing Listening Aid 2016 where we ask politicians to listen to what we want because we put them there in the first place.

We can turn a deaf ear at election time.

More petitions from the public - they do make a real difference. Can politicians - local and national - vote against introducing a system whereby the self-employed have to fill in quarterly tax returns.

It's hard enough out there for small businesses without more resource-draining red tape.

And can we all be told what the "Northern Powerhouse" actually is?

I thought it was an ill-fated act on The X Factor.

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THE New Year's honours were again a predictable disappointment - apart from our own local heroes who picked up a gong for public service - David Whiteley, Wendy Ann Taaffe and Michael Elkerton.

The honours given to the world of showbiz seemed to be as reflective of public mood as the archaic cringe-inducing Royal Variety Performance.

Still no Sir Ken Dodd.

We have working girl made good - Dame Barbara Windsor. Cor blimey!

Why couldn't they have given this title to the late, great Cilla Black when she was alive?

On the celebrity front I want to see Wirral stars recognised more.

How about ... Sir Paul O’Grady, Lord Ian Botham and Dames Patricia Routledge and Glenda Jackson.

I predict we will soon have Sirs Ant and Dec - after their telly toadying with Prince Charles.

So can we resolve, in the meantime, to have more honours closer to home bestowed on local names who make Wirral proud - via the ready-made, but blatantly under-used "Freedom of the Borough"?

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THERE are some positive things to look forward to already in 2016.

Great to hear Status Quo are getting down (down deeper and down) to Prenton Park in May to play a gig for Wirral’s St John’s Hospice.

Quo's fun-loving pair Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi once waxed lyrical to me about getting measured up for Madame Tussauds.

During the sitting they were invited to "pick their own noses."

Over at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton, there's some mouth-watering productions coming up.

It kicks-off in January with Faulty Towers, an inter-active dining experience with improvised comedy.

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AND finally, I leave you with this sobering thought.

I remembered there's only one thing more depressing than staying in on New Year’s Eve - and that's going out.

Peter Grant