One of the country's top plastic moulding companies moved house officially today, though in practice like many house moves it's going to take a bit of time to complete. Nifco's new factory in Eaglescliffe was officially opened by HRH the Duke of York who spoke warmly about the company's past record in winning work and training staff and about their future prospects. With Cllr Alan Lewis I
The Winter Gardens in Great Yarmouth. Open March to October.
I first posted this on The Corridor but, as is his right, the owner has taken his bat home and deleted the whole blog. So here, at 1:11, is England's opening batsman and one-day captain in his days as a choirboy at St Paul's.
The following article written for a seminar in 2008 compares American and European experience in framing constitutions.This seminar asks if there is a new model for a federal Europe but, as Prof Coombes has pointed out, we have the models; what we need is the strategy. When Douglas Hurd was British Foreign Secretary, he used to argue that the British didn't like big visions, they preferred
All, A small group of local residents – around 10, have called a public meeting to take place in a private house next week to call for a town poll on the Town Council's decision to buy the Police Station. Yes – this is legal. It only takes 10 people to call for a poll of all the residents of a Town or Parish. Now this may seem like a good idea – I for one (eventually) opposed the decision to buy the Police Station. But before you applaud this group for their common sense I think there are a ...
The Daily Telegraph has more evidence of senior Whitehall companies being paid through private companies, apparently as a way of avoiding higher tax bills: The Daily Telegraph has uncovered a raft of new examples in deals worth up to £475,000 each. These include one tax adviser at the Office for Tax Simplification, the head of internal channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and several "associates" and directors at the National College for School Leadership.I suppose that is one way of 'simplifying' tax.
The papers have been published for next week's scrutiny meeting which is set to be the first chance for councillors outside the Cabinet to consider the plans for a stadium for Cornwall. And whilst I still believe that there are many questions which have not been answered and claims which do not add up, there do appear to be some reassurances given to those of us who have, until now, opposed the project. I've been of the opinion that Cornish taxpayers should not be footing the bill for a stadium which would be (almost) exclusively for the use of two ...
Thu 16th
21:55
Join me Friday, 12 noon, on the Guardian's #HElivechat - The future of philanthropy in higher educat...
I'm one of the panel members on the Guardian's live chat about the role that philanthropy can play in the future of university funding (Friday 17 February, 12pm – 2pm GMT): With an 80% cut in public spending set to hit universities, can an increase in philanthropic donations ease HEIs' reliance on the market for funding? Chacona Winters Johnson, president and CEO of Detroit Public Schools Foundation, certainly believes this to be the case in America. "Today, government funds are simply not enough to alone pay for quality public education. The state does not allocate enough and local schools districts ...
It is wrong to get too upset about a poor adaptation of Charles Dickens or Jane Austen. However bad it is, the novel is still there and you know there will be another one along in a minute. It is hard to be so calm about a poor adaptation of an obscure work that you particularly like, because you know that it is probably the only one you will ever see. BBC4 is currently repeating the Mrs Bradley Mysteries, which were first shown in 1998 and 1999. These are adaptations of a few of the many crime novels by Gladys ...
FROM: Conor O'Connor, Director of Human Resources Development TO: Brett West, Head of Modernisation and Business Practice Brett - It was unfortunate that the last module of the Supersmart ordering training could not be delivered because the Supersmart order for the training from Piers, Gaveston, Edwards had not been completed. I'm afraid the failure was in our Directorate, so we'll hold our hands up. Verity Casement and Martin House can be booked as they achieved an above average satisfaction rating on the feedback forms, but unfortunately booking them on a once-off basis will be more expensive. Please cascade. FROM: Conor ...
My religious position is clear enough: I am a High Church atheist. I like church music and church architecture, but that doesn't mean God exists. You could say I was Anglican by temperament but not by belief. I had many good friends when I was doing my first degree, but in those days I was something of a professional atheist. I saw it as part of my job as a Philosophy student. In particular, I found the arguments of the Christian Union (CU) simplistic and its habit of appealing to the emotions of lonely or immature young people unattractive. Interestingly, ...
Lev Eakins has drawn my attention to a speech by the eurosceptic Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, speaking to the gathering of American Conservatives known as CPAC.Hannan's thesis is that the American Constitution is wonderful and he warns Americans not to follow what he regards as the European example of centralisation and too much government. The speech is a tour-de-force which flatters his
...but for some reason I am drawn towards listening to Johnny Cash, a singer who, in my younger days would have caused me a seizure. "Unearthed" is a particularly wonderful collection from the "Man in Black". He does one of the best versions in existence of U2′s "One". And this track, "Gentle on my mind" is just brilliant. I don't know what it is about Johnny Cash. He'd be rejected on "X factor" for being "too flat". But for me, he is akin to Rod Stewart. Both Cash and the Rodster could, in my view, pick up (or in Cash's ...
Local LIB DEM ward councillor, Darren Fower, says he is "perplexed" by the plans of the Tory controlled Council to allow taxpayers to cover the cost of the Olympic torch turning up on 3rd + 4th July 2012. As stated within the Council's latest budget document (P33), to "...ensure the celebrations can be successfully managed, funding is needed for staging the event, security and infrastructure." Commenting, Darren told us: "I am rather perplexed by this situation. If this is to be such a popular and successful event, then surely there must have be some scope for some associated private funding? ...
My favourite Shropshire hills were featured on Heritage Heroes yesterday as John Craven and Jules Hudson met the people restoring old lead-miners' cottages on the Stiperstones. You can watch this episode on BBC iPlayer. The programme mentioned that a book about these lost settlements on the Stiperstones is to be published. I suspect that it has already appeared and they were talking about is Once Upon a Hill: The Lost Communities of the Stiperstones. You can read about the restoration of the cottages on the Natural England site.
Why is it that, despite everything, local authorities still have such contempt for small shops and local entrepreneurs? The result is a fatal addiction to big and ineffective, rather than small and local:
In a word... No. I have a fundamental problem with forcing someone to work for their benefits. I have no objection to someone being encouraged to do voluntary work or training to improve their CV, but this should never be ... Continue reading →
This isn't quite the last First Doctor novel for me to read, in that I started (but could not bear to finish) The Plotters a couple of years back. But until the BBC decides to licence another First Doctor story, it is the last one whose covers I have cracked; a tale of Vicki, Ian and Barbara in China in the 1860s, encountering the Ten Tigers (of whom I had not previously heard, but a quick Google put me right) and an alien menace trying to take over Earth history through revenants and the terracotta soldiers. Lots of vivid imagery, ...
A bristol bus driver who used his bus as a weapon to run someone over, badly injuring them, has been given the lightest possible sentence by Bristol Crown Court. The video on the BBC report is shocking: the driver swings his bus into the cyclist, throwing him some distance and causing grevious bodily harm. The ...
I'm sure that you've experienced those moments when the process of doing something that should be simple becomes a struggle. Buying things on the internet, for example, or trying to change your standing order for a utility. We've all been there.Ros and I are off to Yerevan, Armenia in May for a conference (as you do), and once the dates were confirmed, I was tasked with booking flights. So, having shopped around, compared fares and flight times, I alighted upon Air France as my preferred option (flights depart and arrive at sensible, civilised times).I go to their website, book the ...
Cameron came to Scotland today and gave an impassioned speech on why he believes in this United Kingdom. It was a welcome change from his previous forays into the independence debate. He was positive about Scotland and Scotland's contribution to the UK. He talked about how solidarity that the UK had, that we would lose ...
That's roughly what it's worth per ton of rubbish that goes into your recycling bin. The thing is that every ton that goes into ordinary waste (or the green-lidded bin where we live) costs the council £90, with a big proportion of that being landfill tax designed specifically to hit councils that don't sell recycling to their people. On the other side of the equation, the council earns around £30 per ton from the contents of the blue-lidded recycling bin. So the saving is £120 on anything that qualifies. Which means that Mrs T and I (if Mr & Mrs ...
At an exciting afternoon meeting of the Merseyside Police Authority councillors and independent members failed to agree a Budget. Although a majority were in favour of a 3% increase in the police element of Council Tax for Merseyside residents amounting to £2.92 extra a year for Band A and £4.39 extra a year for Band D, ...
Moody's, the US credit ratings agency, has put the UK on negative outlook, threatening the country's triple A status. This came the day after three other organizations had also made their views known. The CBI predicted that the UK would avoid a double-dip recession, the services firm BDO published the results of a survey suggesting turnovers were continuing to fall and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reported that employers were more likely to lay off staff. It is now four and a half years since the uncertainty of the credit worthiness of banks and hedge funds that were ...
Whig Watch returns after a long while. The coalition has been looking less Whig but here is Tim Montgomerie on 'the quad': This after all is a meeting of the liberal wing of the Conservative Party and the Orange Book wing of the Liberal Democrats.
On one of these election results programmes from 1979, Shirley Williams had to put up with the ignominy of being told she was "very pretty" by Sir Robin Day. I never heard him say the same thing to male politicians, funnily enough. Can you just imagine how Harriet Harman would have reacted? Shirley was very gracious at the time but I'm sure she must have inwardly raised her eyes to heaven as every woman involved in politics does frequently. Yesterday, Shirley talked to the Guardian about the clubbish, boyish nature of politics and the barriers facing women in the business ...
Firstly, one of my favourite bloggers is James Altucher, so before anyone claim's I'm stealing his posts I'm going to reference him for his two excellent blog posts How to Become a Superhero and 10 Reasons Why I would Never Donate to a Major Charity. Don't get me wrong, I have been a keen supporter of charity all of my life. I am a firm believer that everyone should try and help their fellow man, also that a society should be judged on the way they handle the less fortunate amongst them. A bit of my background: My first taste ...
Next up in my reading of the BSFA nominees, and again I like this one more than the one I have already read; In By Light Alone, humanity has become universally able to photosynthesise enough energy to stay alive through their hair by virtue of a drug which is freely available, and has consequently collapsed into a Gatsbyesque dichotomy of the super-wealthy and the poor. The plot concerns a couple who are holidaying in an exotic resort, whose obscenely comfortable world is upended when one of their children is stolen - not kidnapped, no ransom involved; we then follow first ...
As Twitter now have a UK office, I thought I would see what data they hold about me. Thanks to the UK's Data Protection act, it's really simple to request the information. I wasn't expecting a whole CD's worth of information – like Facebook provides users – but what I did get surprised me. Twitter UK has no control or responsibility over the user information in the Twitter service and cannot respond to these sorts of requests. So, I was rather surprised to see Privacy International telling people to contact Twitter's UK office. I'm not sure whether PI are mistaken, ...
Thu 16th
14:43
Simon Hughes urges Lib Dem members to sign petition calling for tax cuts for lowest paid
Simon Hughes has sent out an e-mail to Liberal Democrat members asking them to sign thi petition, started by Liberal Democrat activist Tracy Connell, calling for the Government to raise the tax threshold faster along the lines suggested by the Liberal Democrats. It says: Please sign this to persuade George Osborne to fast track the Lib Dem policy to increase the income tax threshold to £10,000 in the next budget, and hence take thousands more people out of tax and put £700 back in people's pockets.There are measures that can be taken to pay for this including the clamp down ...
A new insight into Danny Alexander MP's carefree childhood, from the Corncrake*, the hyperlocal website for the Scottish island of Colonsay, where the Chief Secretary to the Treasury grew up - Ian McAllister attended the primary school with Danny and remembers, As wee boys, Danny and I used to play on the seaside rocks near Glen Cottage. Danny was very interested in cricket and fishing and we regarded him as the man to ask if we had any questions about dinosaurs, on which he was the acknowledged authority. Many years later, the schoolmates were unexpectedly reunited: As part of a ...
Kew has finally got it's Rubbish 5K Run. The reason for the strange title is the fact that Kew Community Woodland is planted on a former rubbish tip. The woods are currently managed by The Forestry Commission and with their cooperation we have managed to fund a 5 km route for runners using the existing paths. The route has been devised by the Southport Waterloo Athletics Club, as the club have already been using the woods for their runs. Pictured above are myself and my 2 colleagues Councillor Maureen Fearn and Councillor Fred Weavers, along with members of the running ...
Due to an unfortunate computer virus prank, David Cameron was forced to give a speech today using the wrong text. The virus had swapped the words "United Kingdom" for "Scotland" and "Europe" for "United Kingdom" along with a couple of other small edits to muddy the waters. Here is the original text of the speech he meant to give. I am convinced that for both the United Kingdom, and Europe, our best days lie ahead of us. And that even though it may be a great historical construct, Europe is actually even more of an inspiring model for the future. ...
The Welsh education system has had some bad publicity recently centring on the £604 per pupil funding gap with England, and the poor PISA results that showed, that in terms of outcomes for pupils, Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK. The current Education Minister has acknowledged that there are problems and has put in place an action plan to deal with them. This though has thrown the spotlight onto the record of his predecessor, Jane Davidson, a record that she has vigorously defended in the media. In today's Western Mail there is another installment in this PR ...
A Tory Cabinet Member on Cornwall Council (who blogs even less frequently than I do) has stepped into the debate about the civic role of the Chairman of the Council, questioning why the authority is debating the Olympic Torch row at a time "when there are so many important issues to be addressed". It is, ...
As coup d'états go, the toppling last week of the Maldives' first elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, appears an undramatic affair. Nasheed, a former political prisoner, announced suddenly he was standing down; his deputy would be taking over. This involved no tanks, few casualties and little shock and awe. Should we care about politics in paradise? The answer is a resounding yes. Politics in the Maldives has been a rough game over the past four years. In an article in the New York Times last week, Nasheed wrote of the corrupt legacy that 30 years of dictatorship had left the small ...
The boardwalk at Gatley Carrs, overlooking the pond, will shortly be replaced thanks to a grant from Forever Manchester and the Stockport Fund. The Gatley Carrs Conservation Group have worked hard to raise the money. The £2,982 grant will allow the Boardwalk to be replaced. Without the money, the old boardwalk would soon have had to be cordoned off. The pond is rich in wildlife and regularly visited by local children, along with nature lovers of all ages. View Cheadle and Gatley in a larger map
Royal Geographical Society, CC Steve Cadman The Citizen Cyberscience Centre, an international partnership headquartered in Geneva, is today launching the second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit. The three-day summit begins today with a plenary programme at the Royal Geographical Society, followed by a day of parallel talks on Friday and a practical Hackday on the Saturday. The Friday and Saturday programmes are hosted by University College London. Talks will cover a wide range of applications for citizen science, such as using mobile technology for mapping and volunteer recording of biodiversity and environmental features such as noise or air quality. Early talks ...
So I have decided to nip into town at lunch to do a spot of shopping. Nice and easy it is for me. I live right by the railway station and it is a five-minute journey into town. I do it all the time but today I was actually unable to travel. There was only one ticket booth open but the gentleman refused to serve me telling me that he was too busy. So I go outside and the self-service ticket machine had been emptied and wasn't accepting any ticket purchases. I walk over to the other platform and that ...
Liberal Democrats at Edinburgh's Equal Marriage March Picture copyright Liberal Youth Scotland On Valentine's Day our Lib Dem colleagues in Scotland joined others for a march to Holyrood in support of equal marriage. As you may be aware there has been a consultation process there into the subject and the Government are now considering those ...
How to use Politicians to get what you want S. Colvin. Biteback Publishing ISBN 9781849540865 It's not often that I sit down and read a book in one day. Scott Colvin's work is one such work – and with good reason. From the first glance, you can see that this is a work that is ...
Cross posted on LGBT+ Lib Dems Northern Ireland Liberal Democrats at Edinburgh's Equal Marriage March Picture copyright Liberal Youth Scotland On Valentine's Day my Lib Dem colleagues in Scotland joined others for a march to Holyrood in support of equal marriage. As you may be aware there has been a consultation process there into the subject and the Government are now considering those submissions. There will also be a consultation by Westminster covering England and Wales. However, the week before in the Northern Ireland Assembly the subject of the Sexual Orientation Strategy once again emerged from the long grass it ...
Zomia. Zomia is a political and geographic oddity first remarked upon by a Dutch historian, Willem van Schendel, in 2002. Loosely speaking, it refers to a massive, octopus-shaped tract of land in south-east Asia that is the subject of increasingly heated academic attention. The map above is wrong – not only is the extent of the shaded area quite arbitrary in places, it mislabels Tajikistan as Uzbekistan – but it is presented here as illustration. Zomia is a huge territory, conceived as being the largest contiguous area that, despite falling beneath the aegis of various national governments, is essentially beyond ...
Email Inbox Zero. At times it can feel like the El Dorado of digital organization — everyone thinks it will bring them organizational bounty, but it proves horribly elusive. However, it can be done. I've been there, more than once. You too can get there — with the help of the dozen top tips I learned along the way. 1. Decide how often you want to be at zero Having your inbox permanently at zero is impossible. Having messages come in is, after all, half the point of email. As a lot of my work is built around weekly cycles, ...
Banker bashing (and CEO rewards in major businesses) continues to be much in the news. Much of the comment is about how to cut complex remuneration packages down to 'reasonable'. At a detail level some useful proposals are debated - including how do you define 'reasonable'. There are also some spirited defences of the current incentive system & resultant remuneration outcomes which include some valid comments. But the ALL miss the point. Few people would object to wealth creation. Few people would object to wealth creators getting rich. The problem is that, more often than not that is not what ...
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 570 party members responded, and we're publishing the full results. Miliband slumps to -83% among Lib Dem members LDV asked: Do you think Ed Miliband is doing well or badly as leader of the Labour party? 1% – Very well 6% – Well Total well = 7% 41% – Badly 49% – Very badly Total badly = 90% 3% – Don't know / No opinion Well, I imagine Ed Miliband has ...
Do you have a favourite Fair trade shop or café? If you have, please share it. Starting next week, the Cambridge Fairtrade Steering Group will be helping Fairtrade sellers promote their goods by giving out colourful Cambridge Fairtrade window stickers, sponsored by the Co-op, the first big supermarket to stock Fairtrade goods back in 1992. The Mayor of Cambridge, Cllr Ian Nimmo-Smith, will be putting up the first sticker in the Green Coffee Company next Tuesday and giving out stickers to other Fairtrade shops. Cambridge shoppers are being asked to keep an eye out for Fairtrade goods when they go ...
Sadly Labour led Southwark Council is ending its support for composting and wormeries. Free compost bins and free wormeries were introduced by Lib Dem councillor Richard Thomas many years ago. Southwark Labour has decided to end its subsidy for composting bins and wormeries and now charge for each + a large delivery fee. Partly I guess they feel the food waste is an alternative. Cynically perhaps composting and wormeries reduces the amount put our for recycling! Either Way bad news. So if you were thinking of composting call 020 7525 2000 or email environment@southwark.gov.uk and place your order for a ...
Anyone remember CIX, AOL or Compuserve from the early-to-mid 1990s? You'd log on and have a nice, safe (But expensive) set of forums and chat rooms isolated from the chaos of the mainstream internet. Whatever happened to them? Well, they died. A long time ago. I don't think many mourned their passing, really. AOL became just another dialup ISP, famed for those free shiny coffee coasters they put through everyone's door. CompuServe were bought by AOL. CIX just became specialists in conferencing. Now a "cybersecurity expert", Professor Alan Woodward, has reinvented the wheel. And the BBC think it's news. Yes, ...
Funny, pointed and relevant: this is one of the best pieces of campaign artwork I've seen put out by the party this year. * Mark Pack is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and writes a monthly newsletter about the Liberal Democrats.
West Hampstead Library is to close its doors - but only for a month - and only so that some building work can be done. (This is in stark contrast where to some other libraries in the borough where the council is effectively cutting all support to some libraries) Councillors have received the following note about the temporary closure. (I would add that library users are able to return books to any other library. Kilburn and Swiss Cottage are the closest - but it might be that you work by or travel past one of the other Camden libraries...)West Hampstead ...
Thu 16th
10:04
Scouts: what others think we do... and what we actually do with thanks to @foxtrot_mike
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The Tyddyn Bach Trust respite centre in Penmaenmawr in Wales which has provided much-needed respite care for over 2,000 individuals and families affected by HIV since 1997 closed its doors. As a former trustee of Northern Ireland's leading HIV charity, The HIV Support Centre, I have some idea of how difficult it can be to ...
Or perhaps it isn't... Adam Bell puts tongue firmly in cheek as he announced Lib Dems Against Factionalism.
I see in today's Echo that Cllr Anderson is once again peddling his version of the truth about the need for an elected Mayor in Liverpool. Unfortunately no-one agrees with his version. Let's deal with some facts: The Government offered ... Continue reading →
Yesterday I visited the mother of my friend Peter Davies in her home in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. We went in, sat down in the sitting room and in pride of place on the mantelpiece was the picture illustrated here. Mrs Davies told me to take it down and look at it if I wanted, so I ...
Lately, I've been talking about the positioning of the Liberal Democrats and how we can break through at an election to either become the official opposition or the governing party in our own right. This has mainly come about due to the launch of Liberal Left. One of my main gripes with Liberal Left, is ...
Left-handed? Different bodies, different minds Have I mentioned how much I detest bilateral divisions of humanity? I'm ambidextrous... (tags: ) Users warned as RnBXclusive.com shut down by police Oh dear. (tags: censorship ) Dystopian/Scifi stuff with strong female characters? | Geek Feminism Blog Bookmarking this for my own benefit (tags: Feminism ) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
One of the most interesting (and, I think, healthy) aspects of Coalition politics is the insight into the give-and-take nature of negotations it provides. In the bad-old-Labour-days, the Blair/Brown disputes — which were rarely about actual policy — leaked out into the public domain through highly personalised off-the-record briefings. There's (generally) a refreshing honesty to the candour of arguments within the Coalition. Here's today's example... A plan to impose penalties on students who pay university loans back early has been scrapped by the government, amid fears hundreds of thousands of people would be hit with unfair charges. Ministers were considering ...
With my oft-repeated refrain that the party needs to treat members and supporters far more as active participants in the battle for Liberal Democrat policies, rather than as passive spectators, it is no surprise that I think Simon Hughes's email yesterday was a good move. It called on people to sign the grassroots generated Parliamentary e-petition calling for the moves to a £10,000 income tax allowance to be speeded up. That's the good side. The bad side? The email's content itself. It's one of the basics of email campaigning that if you want people take an action as a result ...
Today marks the foundation of Lib Dems Against Factionalism, a place for all Liberal Democrats who believe that the current upswing in sub-party organisations that purportedly represent 'differences of opinion' is a menace to all right- thinking undifferentiated Lib Dems everywhere. We have formed this new group because we believe the following to be true: That the public have a clear and coherent understanding of what the Lib Dems stand for and will in no way be confused by a new group putting clear tangerine water between itself and the rest of the party, and besides, the public loves internecine ...
In their alternative Cambridgeshire County Council budget, the Lib Dems have set aside £10 million over the next five years to maintain and improve the buildings of the 200 schools for which the council is still responsible. "The council has a school maintenance backlog of over £20 million", said Lib Dem Education Spokesman, Peter Downes. "We would increase the investment in making schools fit for purpose and we would give priority to maintenance work that would improve energy efficiency. "This is a win-win situation. The school would reduce its expenditure on energy, thus releasing more funds for teaching, and the ...
In their alternative Cambridgeshire County Council budget, the Lib Dems have set aside £10 million over the next five years to maintain and improve the buildings of the 200 schools for which the council is still responsible. "The council has a school maintenance backlog of over £20 million", said Lib Dem Education Spokesman, Peter Downes. "We would increase the investment in making schools fit for purpose and we would give priority to maintenance work that would improve energy efficiency. "This is a win-win situation. The school would reduce its expenditure on energy, thus releasing more funds for teaching, and the ...
We've had Lembit Opik (sort of), Sarah Teather and David Laws. Pausing only to note the enthusiasm of Norman Lamb for MC Dot Rotten, let's conclude this short series with Jeremy Thorpe. The Surprises were a Birmingham punk band. One of their members, Janice Connolly, is now better known as the comedian Barbara Nice.
Karen Hannah On Saturday 18th February, the monthly Cappuccino Concert in Dundee's Wighton Centre will showcase two young traditional musicans, fiddler Karen Hannah and accordion player Alan Small. Karen Hannah is a well-known fiddle player and teacher whose music has taken her across Europe and as far afield as New Zealand and South Korea. As well as her solo and duo work, Karen plays in several duos and bands, and is fiddle tutor at the Wighton Heritage Centre. Her recent appearances include two acclaimed concerts at Glasgow's Celtic Connections. Former All Scotland Accordion Champion, Allan Small, is probably best known ...
I was on Wave 102 News yesterday about the proposed redevelopment of the former Homebase site on Riverside Drive. Click 'play' to listen :
Manchester Lib Dem leader Marc Ramsbottom wrote to me yesterday regarding an article in this week's Manchester Evening News. He said, "You will have probably seen the article in yesterdays evening news about 'further' cuts planned for Manchester. This is just pure scaremongering and speculation yet again." Marc went on to say; "The article is based on the Budget Council report going to (the Council) Exec tomorrow and here are a few keys headlines and reason why its misleading you need to be aware of: 1. Every year the Council claims to need to spend more money on services as ...
Notice from Herts County Council TEMPORARY CLOSING OF A5183 Verulam Road, St. Albans NOTICE is given that the Hertfordshire County Council intend to make an Order under Section 14[1] of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, to prohibit all traffic from using that length of A5183, St Albans from its junction with A5183 Folly Lane southg eastwards and southwards to its junction with A5183 High Street, a distance of approximately 864 metres, except for access. The purpose of the Order is to enable highways mainatenace to take place. It is anticipated that the section of road will be closed for ...
The following article appeared in yesterdays Spectator. By; JONATHAN JONES Yesterday, Barack Obama set out his budget for 'Fiscal Year 2013' - that is, for the year beginning October 2012 (in the US, the fiscal year runs from October to September, rather than April to March as it does here). Of course, the federal budget has to be passed by both houses of Congress before being signed off by the President, so the final version will look very different to this one. It is better thought of as a statement of Obama's intent, and his starting point for the negotiations ...
