In 1997, after a string of election defeats, Tony Blair led the Labour Party to a landslide victory. He did so by unashamedly stealing a raft of Tory policies and putting a New Labour spin on them. In 2010, after three election defeats, David Cameron led the Tories to victory. He did so by unashamedly stealing a raft of Labour Party policies and putting a Tory spin on them. Almost ALL of the current Tory policies originated from Labour. No wonder Labour are angry and confused. To have Cameron do to them what Blair did to the Tories must be ...
... biggest employer in the world according to the Beeb. Ahead of the Indian State Railways, but still behind the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
We saw on Friday that David Parsons, the Conservative leader of Leicestershire County Council, was under pressure to resign after the revelation that he had cost taxpayers more than £1m in expenses and allowances over the past five years. The latest news is that Parsons has announced that he is giving up his chauffeur-driven car, but this has not stopped a Labour councillor calling for an extraordinary meeting or the leader of the Lib Dem county group Simon Galton backing his call. But it turns out all this is old news. Because the Liberal Democrats have been on Parsons' case ...
OK, I am not usually in the business of advertising good Tory comments (cue sarcastic comments from disaffected anti-coalition Lib Dems!) but praise where it is due. Our ex councillor Paul Webbewood has been a Lib Dem lone voice in the public gallery at the Town Hall on the "state of things" in Greenwich but we, the ...
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for South Wales West, Peter Black, has welcomed the decision by Environment Minister. John Griffiths to abandon the previous Government's cull of badgers in north Pembrokeshire and parts of Ceredigion and pursue a vaccination programme instead. "This decision is very much in line with the available scientific evidence, including the peer-reviewed paper prepared by the Independent Science Group (ISG) on the results of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial that was released in July 2010," said Mr. Black. That paper concluded that "reductions in cattle TB incidence achieved by repeated badger culling were not sustained ...
In October of last year I blogged that Rob Green had written a book about the murder of his aunt Hilda Murrell. I suspect the book was available only in New Zealand then, but A Thorn in Their Side has now been published in Britain. On Sunday the Observer reported that Michael Mansfield has "demanded a fresh police inquiry to establish what the British intelligence services knew about the murder of a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner". And now there is an article on the Guardian website by Mansfield himself: In the official version of her murder, Murrell was the victim of ...
I had given this First Doctor story a try once before, and thoroughly bounced off it, but for the sake of completeness I thought I should give it another go. It's not quite as bad as I thought first time round - in particular, I retract the accusation that the book itself is anti-Catholic - but the number of historical and linguistic solecisms is still far too great for me to appreciate what I will admit is a reasonably well-constructed plot, with quite a nice twist at the end about Guy Fawkes. (Among other irritations: several characters reminisce about the ...
Panic over. The new plans submitted for Belle Vue had the wrong map! Consett Junior School is not included in the plans. The county council will now be submitting a correct map with the same boundaries as the 2009 application. I'm not sure why I say the panic is over, though. I continue to be asked by a stream of people about what is happening with Belle Vue, all of them hoping that it won't be used for the new Academy/Leisure Centre and asking for the latest position. All I can say is that the Judicial Review of whether County ...
Tue 20th
18:55
The Independent View: Taxing decisions - the debate between tax credits and tax allowances
As debate ahead of the Budget rages on about the merits of tax allowances and tax credits, a CentreForum report published this week provides new, detailed analysis of both. The media has focused on the plight of the 'squeezed middle', Ed Miliband wants to help the "squeezed middle" and Nick Clegg is concerned for "alarm clock Britain". But 'Taxing decisions: the debate between tax credits and personal allowances' uses modelling to illustrate the implications of tax allowances more rigorously and objectively than the day-to-day analysis of Fleet Street or Westminster. The report's authors, Thomas Brooks and Chris Nicholson of CentreForum, ...
No. (N.B. I work for a mobile advertiser – but this is my personal blog. This post isn't written on their behalf. Naturally I'm biased.) (N.B. I'm in India and jetlagged to hell – this may not make any sense!) Wild headlines abound – but very few people seem to have read the original Microsoft sponsored paper. The 75% claim is based on... one app,running on the very first Android hardware (Magic & Passion),not disclosed whether the phones were running Android 1.5 (what they shipped with) or an updated ROM,based on the first thirty three seconds only of the app ...
Writing of his experience as one of Chris Huhne's Special Advisers, Duncan Brack has this to say about green ministers: There are certainly good green ministers in other departments [than DECC/DEFRA], such as Norman Baker in the Department for Transport, Andrew Stunell in CLG, and William Hague in FCO. As for David Cameron he says, The prime minister's attitude is perplexing. On the credit side, a real attempt to move the Conservative Party in a green direction before the election, a decent set of manifesto commitments, and a fair degree of support for DECC in many of the battles we ...
WARNING: This post contains swearing. Hey, remember how Lib Dem MPs and peers voted to cut benefits for those sick and disabled that the DWP deemend to be potentially capable of work at some point in the future? Well (hat tip to Tia Junior) here's a nice illustration of how the system that decides capability for work actually works itself: "When assessing mobility within a WCA, Atos interviewers are allowed to recommend the use of a wheelchair to improve mobility (if they think it will do this) for someone who does not normally use one. They can do this without ...
Remember last week at PMQs, Nick Clegg commented on Ken Livingstone's rather complex tax affairs:It is worth dwelling for a minute on the explanation provided by Ken Livingstone for his exotic tax arrangements. I quote from an interview that he gave just this weekend: "I get loads of money, all from different sources, and I give it to an accountant and they manage it". That is modern socialism for you.Well, no wonder the Labour mayoral candidate needs an accountant if he can't even cope with numbers less than the number of fingers on one hand, as this leaflet, spotted at ...
As most people probably know by now, Hertfordshire County Council is rolling out part-night lighting across the county. This is being done after a number of trials and closely following the advice of the police. Except at road junctions and where the police advise, the lights are being fitted with new switches that are intended to turn the lights on at dusk and switch them off at midnight. They then should go back on at 6.00 a.m. and off again at dawn. Unfortunately some of them have either been set up incorrectly or are defective in some way and some ...
Tue 20th
16:12
Kent County Council maintenance frequencies for grass, shrubs, weeds and hedges 2012-2013
[IMG: Grass Verge and trees] Kent County Council have published a schedule of all programmed grass cutting / weed management services effective from 1 April 2012. The schedule gives a County wide specification and a district-by-district landscape operations schedule. Published and promoted by Tim Prater, 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone, CT20 3BYPrinted (hosted) by Prater Raines Ltd, 98 Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY
There were seven principal local council by-elections held on Thursday 15th March. The Lib Dems held one seat. Labour gained two seats from the Tories. The Tories held three seats and took one off the Greens. There were no parish or town council by-election result reported to ALDC. If you have one of your sitting councillors disqualified for non-attendance - not something that should ever happen to a Lib Dem - then the only decent thing to do is to hold the subsequent by-election. In the Porchester East Ward in Fareham Borough council in Hampshire we had a good majority ...
I'm pro Sunday trading. Big time. Despite being brought up the son of a Methodist superintendent in the church I am not religious. I know many see Sunday as the day of rest and God's day but no-one is forcing these people to go out and spend their Sunday's in shops. All these Sunday trading laws do is keep one day a week where everything is treated differently and I don't see why. Why shouldn't people have the option of spending their Sunday evening wandering around a supermarket or a garden centre etc.? More business opening hours will lead to ...
Remember last week at PMQs, Nick Clegg commented on Ken Livingstone's rather complex tax affairs: It is worth dwelling for a minute on the explanation provided by Ken Livingstone for his exotic tax arrangements. I quote from an interview that he gave just this weekend: "I get loads of money, all from different sources, and I give it to an accountant and they manage it". That is modern socialism for you. Well, no wonder the Labour mayoral candidate needs an accountant if he can't even cope with numbers less than the number of fingers on one hand, as this leaflet, ...
[IMG: Policeman] Kent Police Authority have extended their consultation on the new Kent Policing Model for on-line responses to 5 April. They say: "Nearly five months has passed since the introduction of the new Kent Policing Model and the Police Authority are seeking "stakeholder" views. "Last November the county was reduced from six policing areas to three divisions - West, North and East - with more officers now based in and working from neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood officers were also been given a wider remit and the force launched a 'borderless' response to make sure the nearest and most suitable officers attend ...
The next North Area Committee will be in the Centre Hall of the Shirley School, Nuffield Road, on Thursday 22nd of March. The planning part of the meeting will start at 6.30pm, with the main meeting starting at 7.30pm, or as soon as the planning part finishes, if that over-runs. The theme of the meeting will be TRANSPORT, with particular emphasis on the impact of the proposed new rail station on Chesterton Fen. Also on the agenda: Tree Planting Project - Parks and Open Spaces 2011/15Update on Street Scene IssuesEnvironmental Improvement Programme (for decision)The agenda for the main meeting is ...
Nominations are now open for the Kent Try Angle Awards 2012 to recognise and celebrate exceptional young people across Kent who are trying to DO THEIR BEST. You can nominate a person or group to nominate - they must be between 11-18 years (or up to 25 years for young people with a disability). Nominees should have demonstrated that they are real triers in one of the following categories: Personal Excellence in the Arts, Music, Sports or Outdoor Activity Volunteering and Service to the Community or being a Good Friend or Carer Special achievement in education or after-school activities Bravery ...
Young entrepreneurs at a Cambridge school have developed a glowing reputation for business after the success of their invention to keep cyclists safe on the city's road. Teenagers Adil Khokhar, Radakrishna Pyneeandee, both 17, and Matthew Clark, 16, whose company is Alpha Enterprise, developed reflective armbands as part of the Young Enterprise programme at Netherhall School. They have proved so successful that their invention, GloGos are being stocked by two shops in the city and the boys plan to continue their business venture independently when the year-long school programme finishes. Cambridge MP Julian Huppert, a keen cyclist who led a ...
Young entrepreneurs at a Cambridge school have developed a glowing reputation for business after the success of their invention to keep cyclists safe on the city's road. Teenagers Adil Khokhar, Radakrishna Pyneeandee, both 17, and Matthew Clark, 16, whose company is Alpha Enterprise, developed reflective armbands as part of the Young Enterprise programme at Netherhall School. They have proved so successful that their invention, GloGos are being stocked by two shops in the city and the boys plan to continue their business venture independently when the year-long school programme finishes. Cambridge MP Julian Huppert, a keen cyclist who led a ...
Local LIB DEM ward councillor for this area, Darren Fower tells us he's been contacted by several residents about the possibility of the City Council introducing double yellow lines outside of Norwood School and the shop/hairdressers, on Gunthorpe Road. Do you think its a good idea? Leave your comments below!
The Welsh Environment Minister has just announced that he is not proceeding with the One Wales Government's policy of culling badgers in the North Pembrokeshire area. Instead he is to pursue a five year vaccination programme in the Intensive Action Area. This is the crucial part of his statement: The Strategy acknowledges that in building on the cattle control and biosecurity measures; we must deal with all sources of bovine TB, including in wildlife, if we are going to achieve our goal of eradicating this debilitating disease within the Intensive Action Area and from Wales. For this reason, I have ...
Just back from the Royal Gallery in the House of Lords where I met the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. The reception for 300 MPs and Peers followed the full turnout of both Houses for the "presentation of addresses" in Westminster Hall. The British do pageantry very well. This morning we had the Yeoman ...
I am all for openness and transparency but according to the Telegraph one particular movement in this direction by the UK Government could lead to open revolt in Middle England. They say that the proposal that every taxpayer will get an annual statement from HMRC detailing exactly how much tax they pay and what services it is spent on could cause disquiet amongst a significant minority of taxpayers. They say that most government spending, including most of the benefits bill, flows back to taxpayers. But the question is which taxpayers? The majority of taxpayers use the schools, the police, the ...
The Westmorland Gazette has the sad news: Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has led tributes to South Lakeland District Council leader Brendan Jameson who died suddenly aged 66. Coun Jameson, who was also a Cumbria County and Kendal Town councillor, is believed to have died in the early hours of Monday morning after a heart attack. Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, said: "I met Brendan many times as leader of South Lakeland District Council. He was always a true fighter on behalf of his community, making sure they were heard by Government. "The last time I ...
Tue 20th
14:08
Licensing, Health & Safety and General Purposes Committee (Wirral Council) Part 1 19/3/2012 Agen...
Well on the 19th March 2012, I attended the well-attended Licensing, Health & Safety & General Purposes Committee in Committee Room 1. There were the usual people there such as taxi drivers and union reps and a few new faces from Merseytravel, as well as the committee of councillors and officers. The committee composed of ...
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It's typical of the way Parliament works that what has been mandatory for local councils to is only now becoming a consideration for central government: sending taxpayers a breakdown of how their money is spent each year. For years this has been the norm in local government, but when central government told councils to do it, it missed itself off the list. It looks as if that is going to be remedied this year, and generally it is good news. A lot rests on presenting the information in a clear and balanced way. Arguments over the wording of referendum questions ...
The Governments Warm Front Scheme is designed to provide money to help people keep their homes warm. It's focused on private homes (whether owned or rented) and people on certain benefits. Letters are going out to people in parts of Garston about this but there is no need to wait for a letter before finding out more or applying. The link to the information is or here
Work to resurface the A5183 Verulam Road in St Albans, between George Street and the Folly Lane roundabout, will begin on 26 March and last four days. The £112,000 project will involve resurfacing the carriageway, replacing damaged ironworks and reapplying existing road markings. The work will be carried out in two phases under a full road closure between 9:30am and 9:30pm. The works will take place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. No work will be done on Wednesday to avoid conflict with market day in the city centre. Signed alternative routes will be in place. Residents and businesses in ...
A few weeks ago, an article appeared in New Statesman highlighting how the Met Police buried a critical 2005 report by Brian Paddick into their handling of rape cases. Having asked for a copy of the report, you will probably not be surprised to learn the Met have conveniently lost it. Here's their reply: Searches have been made within Sapphire Command, (who are responsible for investigating rape and other serious sexual offences), Territorial Policing Headquarters, Records Management, MPS Press Office and the National Police Library. The requested document has not been traced. If truthful, not only have they buried the ...
If you ask a metallurgist to test drive your car then be careful as metallurgists test to destruction. Different people have different definitions of how to test. How do you test health? Well there are plenty of ways. Height and weight will tell you your body mass index which may well be the most important factor in preventing cancer, but that doesn't mean there aren't people with cancer who have a perfect BMI. You don't get perfect answers by screening. I remember Daley Thompson while he was at the height of his athletics career saying that his peak performance always ...
Tue 20th
12:55Electoral Commission warns government over refusal to provide election freepost to Police Commission...
In the run-up to the first London Mayor election in 2000 there was a fierce stand-off between the House of Lords and the then Labour government over whether there would be a 'freepost election address' for the contest. This service, used for elections such as to the House of Commons and the European Parliament, provides for the free delivery of one leaflet from each candidate to each voter, providing a basic minimum level of communication to the public about the contest. During the stand-off, the late Conrad Russell led an effective rebellion invoking rarely used Lords procedures. I remember talking ...
High praise indeed for Danny Alexander in today's Scotsman, where David Maddox suggests that he should be the liberal hero of the 21st century as Lloyd George, architect of the People's Budget was for the 20th century. Danny comes in for a lot of stick.Chief Secretaries to the Treasury spend their lives saying "no" to people. Given the financial bourach he had to clear up when he took office caused by chronic overspending by Labour in the good years. He's the guy who's had to not just say "no" to every Department, but he's had to tell them that they've ...
Reading through a Wirral Council press release about solar energy grants, I noticed a link to the Energy Saving Trust website. However Wirral Council have got the link wrong, instead of the link being to http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/ they put http://www.energysavingtrust.org (which incidentally is a totally different website owned by someone else). Does anybody fact-check these press ...
My fellow Lib Dem and former Journalism course-mate and long time Football Manager adversary Sean Breslin sent me this earlier today. A guest blog on who he thinks should light the Olympic flame. Not a bad shout Sean, not a bad shout at all... As the days and weeks pass the excitement and fervour in the country grows before the beginning of the most important summer in Britain's sporting history. It is not an understatement to suggest London 2012 could be monumental for sport in this country. Put simply heroes will be made, heroes who's life will change forever and ...
David Friedman, son of Milton Friedman, wrote The Machinery of Freedom in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was his first book. The second edition is now available for free from his website. Friedman sets out what he sees as the foundation for libertarian thoughts. Once he has established the key elements that define a libertarian, or classical liberal society, he speculates on what an anarcho-capitalist country might look like. Friedman makes clear that his end goal is a society that is anarchic and not Statist. In this very different way of living, he recognises that people will still ...
With questions of taxing the richest in the news in the run-up to the Budget, some of the findings from Skandia's latest survey of millionaires (carried out for the wealth management industry) are of much wider interest. Just over half (51%) have seen their wealth increase since 2008. Property is the biggest single store of wealth they hold: they report that just over a third of their wealth is in property (34%). The property is almost all in the UK. Less than one in ten (7%) own property abroad. Nearly a third (31%) of the millionaires became so before they ...
Dear Joan McAlpine As a constituent of the South of Scotland region, your constituency in the Scottish Parliament, I was disheartened to see your blog on the Daily Record's website comparing the union to domestic abuse. For the record, I hate the marriage metaphor when describing the union. What's next for the "unionists" in that ...
The heat. That all oppressive heat. Not that you'd ever notice it; you move from air-conditioned hotel, to air-conditioned taxi, to air-conditioned office. Yes, cars everywhere. A fifteen minute walk quickly turns into a twenty minute taxi ride. No one walks here – the streets are too crowded for that. Our hotel is hollowed out inside – very reminiscent of the Luxor. Same faux stone walls, unlimited buffet, and eager waiters. The UB City shopping mall may as well be the Venetian in Vegas. Italian frescoes painted on the ceiling, soulless corridors housing luxury shops, chintzy Muzak permeates the air. ...
'Once in a Lifetime Chance to Experience the Olympic Spirit' : Menzies Campbell Welcomes Publication of Street-by-Street Route of the Olympic Torch Through North East Fife. The street-by-street route the Olympic Torch will take when it comes to North East Fife has been released today. Commenting, ex-Olympic athlete Sir Menzies Campbell said: "Now we know where the Torch will be going in North East Fife local people can start to choose a spot from where to watch it go by. I hope all the schools will turn out to cheer the Torch's progress and all the adults too. "This is ...
Road traffic volumes are being forecast to balloon by 50% over the next 25 years from 2010 to 2035. What a depressing forecast from the Department of Tansport. This seems beyond a stark contrast with a decade of falling car use – often called beyond 'peak car' use. Partly these predictions are from planned population growth from immigration etc and partly from predictions of people driving more. But at no point has the price of fuel been considered, increased use of the Internet avoiding the need to travel or the fall in the levels of adults holding driving licenses. It ...
Justice for Alan Turing could be a step closer today as an amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12 (LASPO) tabled by Lib Dem peer Lord Sharkey is being debated at the Lords. The amendment ... Continue reading →
There have been a couple of posts recently on where campaigning ideas should come from and whether those campaigns can be directed centrally, first from Scott Hill and then from Robin McGhee And another, which I refuse to link to because it does not appear to publish comments, mocked us for our backwardness in brand management. Campaigning and not policy is the life blood of Liberal Democrat politics. A policy however right or valuable is inanimate. A campaign establishes connections and energizes movement. That is perhaps why you cannot chose for Liberal Democrats THE campaign they should be waging in ...
[IMG: Referendum in Shipston on Stour] All, The Police Station referendum will be held on Monday 26th March from 4pm until 9pm. Under the rules for this type of poll there will be no voting cards and no postal or proxy votes. The count will take place immediately after the poll. The Police Station has already been bought by the Town Council, so I am frustrated that the people who organised this pointless poll have allowed it to go ahead, but equally frustrated that my call to have the public meeting anyway was turned down at the last Town Council ...
Tue 20th
10:06Planning Applications decided (Bidston & St. James ward) APP/12/00032, 16 Hartnup Way & APP/...
Planning applications decided involving Hartnup way and a school in Price Street.
Baroness Jolly has written a piece for Lib Dem Voice explaining why Lib Dem peers voted for the NHS Bill in the Lords last night. I'm very unhappy with it - as I've posted on the site and copied below (with a couple of typos corrected). Do pop over and read the piece (I don't want to trample roughshod over their copyright by pasting it here)(unless they tell me that's OK!) and then have a look at my response. Over at the ste, there are some other excellent comments too. My answer: Oh dear.While not denying the enormous amount of ...
The insider or outsider: who is best placed to bring about change? #fb Who drives change more effectively in our world: the insider working from within the establishment, or the maverick outsider? With independent diplomat Carne Ross, cosmologist Lord Martin Rees and business supremo Simon Walker - plus a lively audience of opinion formers and business leaders. (tags: carneross ) The GOP War On Women Demands A New Women's Rights Agenda for America | The New Civil Rights Movement Tanya throws down the gauntlet. (tags: uspolitics sexandgenderandsexuality )
The best use of aid for International Development has been a controversial topic recently, with rows over the need for aid to India spilling onto the front pages - many of them spectacularly ill-informed on both sides. That issue is complex - but at least you can rely on Liberal Democrats to think about it carefully. In 2010, I chaired a policy working group on international Development, which argued that the UK should focus on supporting good governance, sovereignty and accountability to the poor, so that countries could move away from aid dependency. As India has all of those, we ...
I've commented in the past on what the 2012 Budget has to do to pass muster as a worthy document from a Government committed to ensuring that those with the broadest shoulders pay their share. This is all the more so after the passage of legislation that will undoubtedly have a disproportionate effect on the most vulnerable. Therefore, the tests are not only that the Budget must further increase fairness in the tax system; it must also ensure that the wealthiest pay their share, which is a subtle distinction from saying it should be 'a budget for the millions, not ...
Change to Sunday trading laws would force us into shops against our will, warn Christians (tags: funny ) The 1930s advert that Mercedes Benz would rather forget Proud suppliers of the Nazis! (tags: history ) Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch (tags: funny ) BBC News - Richard Bacon: My battle with the trolls I worry about the maxim "don't feed the troll". While it's certainly good advice for the victim, I worry that it's the fact that bystanders don't speak out that lets them think their behaviour is acceptable. (tags: internet ) Wile E Coyote, Tragic Hero of Science ...
More in-depth analysis of the story of how The Lord of the Rings was written. We start at Helm's Deep, and follow through the end of Book III and Book IV (ie most of The Two Towers and then all of Book V (first half of The Return of the King). Tolkien's biggest problem was getting the chronology to work between four separated groups of protagonists so that they would eventually end up in the same place at the same time; placing the Paths of the Dead smoothly in the narrative was a challenge as well - it's probably the ...
Tue 20th
07:50Baroness Judith Jolly writes: Why Lib Dem peers have supported an amended Health and Social Care Bil...
Twenty five days of debate in the chamber of the House of Lords have now concluded on the Health and Social Care Bill. Our health team in the Lords has been involved in numerous meetings, events and correspondence discussing the Bill over the last eighteen months. We made it plain throughout the process that we could not have voted for the Bill without significant series changes that Liberal Democrats and professional organisations demanded. We believe that great care is now needed over how it is implemented in order to avoid the dangers of which many have warned and in order ...
Much rumour surrounds what the chancellor may do with the 50p in the £1 top rate of tax paid by a small number of people with incomes over £150k. I admit I have always supported the rate, however like many I will wait with interest when the chancellor announces how much it actually raises. It has been suggested it actually raises little for the treasury and in that case, the argument to keep
Following the launch of the Dundee LibDem local election campaign yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending the first public meting of Dundee Liberal Youth, taking place at the Dalhousie Building at the University of Dundee. There was an excellent turnout to hear Tim Farron and Willie Rennie speak - here's a photo and a short video of a short part of Tim Farron's presentation from an excellent event: Joe Setch of Dundee Liberal Youth introduces Willie Rennie MSP
The March and April Cheadle Area Committees will be quite different to those in the rest of the year. Council rules avoid political reports and decisions coming out in the run up to the local elections on 3rd May (the "purdah" period). Officially the two meetings have one function only – to deal with planning applications. Two applications are being brought to the March meeting. Application 48980 relates to an extension to a house on Central Drive, Heald Green where neighbours have objected. Application 49009 is for a training and demonstration centre for Miele, to be built on the Cheadle ...
Unfortunately some dog owners are irresponsible and don't clear up their dog's mess – but there is a MUCH BIGGER problem: Whichever way you look – drink cans, bottles, fag packets, fag ends, fast-food packaging, even bags of it – rubbish ... Continue reading →
