This summer the Rolling Stones are to play Hyde Park for the first time since 1969, but sadly unlike 1969 it won't be free. So for those without £150 to stand in a muddy field here they are first time round...
Who would have thought that slicing bananas would be so difficult? Not me. I always used a knife myself. But I was pointed to a banana slicer by Andrew earlier this evening. So for those of you who want one. Click on the picture and go and buy one — from Amazon! Filed under: Food, ...
Does anyone seriously believe that the current wave of bellicosity from North Korea justifies Britain spending £20 billion-plus on renewing Trident? David Cameron does. But then as David Grace points out, Cameron believes in three impossible things before breakfast: North Korea wants to launch a nuclear attack against the UK alone, not involving the USA or anyone else.North Korea is capable of delivering a nuclear attack against the UK.North Korea, which is not put off by the US nuclear and conventional capability, will be put off by Trident or its successor.In today's Guardian, Simon Jenkins - no left-wing disarmer - ...
Originally posted at Liberal Democrats in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Liberal Democrats have received expressions of concern from a number of stakeholder parties at uncertainties over the future of Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, currently under review by the Department of Health at Stormont as an aspect of the Transforming Your Care programme. The difficulties ...
"Yeah. I'm doing it now. Time Lords, we have this little trick. It's sort of a way of cheating death. Except... it means I'm going to change. And I'm not going to see you again... Not like this. Not with this daft old face." Those were the penultimate lines spoken by the ninth Doctor. And it appears he was right because Christopher Eccleston has turned down the chance to appear in the 50th Anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who. Of course Doctor Who is used to celebrating its birthday by bringing back past regenerations of the eponymous hero. Nor is it ...
This evening a small party of six ate at the Cosmo restaurant in Belfast's Victoria Square. According to their own website, COSMO, is a critically acclaimed Pan Asian restaurant chain that's opening restaurants all over the UK. The secret of our success is providing delicious freshly prepared food in stunning restaurants and prices that offer ...
Back to 2 Savoy Place, the venue for the Candidates chess tournament in London. It was opened in 1889 as an examination hall for the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons. It was taken over by the Institution of Electrical Engineers and is still occupied by its successor, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). More than that, the building was the first home of the BBC when radio broadcasts began in 1923. A page on the BBC's own site records: Early radio contributors in Savoy Hill included HG Wells and George Bernard Shaw, who were ...
The Open Homes Weekend, organised by Bath & North East Somerset Council, Transition Bath and the Bath Preservation Trust, returns for its second year on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 April. The weekend, which is one of the main events on the Bath Green Homes calendar, will showcase local homes across the Bath area that are warm, green and cheap to run, in order to show people how they can reduce their energy bills. The event will cover a wide area, from Twerton to Bathford, including Batheaston, Larkhall, Bear Flat, Combe Down and Widcombe. The number of homes opening their ...
"Coedffranc Community Council recently took advice from One Voice Wales as to whether it is possible for one of its members to publicly disagree with its decisions. Councillors were reportedly shocked that the answer was in the affirmative." Peter Black on community and town councils in Wales and their problems understanding transparency and accountability. Frank Furedi contributes an essay on education to Spiked: "We have a paradoxical situation, where politicians seem to take the teaching of subject-based knowledge more seriously than educators do." "The widespread acceptance of ADHD as a mental illness/chemical imbalance has no scientific underpinning, but rather is ...
Today has been set as the final day for people to submit written evidence to Helena Morrissey's Independent Review on harassment. However, because of holidays for many this week the deadline is being extended by a further week, until next Friday April 12th, to ensure that everyone has the chance to make their submissions. I would therefore encourage anyone who feels they may have information which may help or be relevant to the independent review, to email today, even if it is just a holding note with detail to follow. You can email Helena Morrissey directly at contact@independentinquiry.org.uk. Only Helena ...
Sefton Council has launched a consultation on charging to empty green wheelie bins. But this is not a consultation on whether to introduce a charge - that has already been decided. The reason for consulting is to find out how much people are prepared to pay. Labour used their majority control of Sefton Council to steam-roller through the principle of charging to empty the green bins, against Liberal Democrat opposition. The Sefton budget assumes that the charge to empty a green bin will be £46 a year and that over one-in-four households will agree to pay this amount. Sefton Council ...
It was quite obvious, by Andrew Mitchell's own account, that plebgate did not leave him smelling of roses. I had to laugh when I heard on the 6.30pm ITN news that the Independent Police Complaints Commission would not be investigating his complaint. They said the Metropolitan Police's own inquiry was being carried out in a "robust and thorough" way. If you can't remember what caused the stink then take a look at my blogs for the 24th September or 20th December 2012, and remember that if you are in a hole the best advice has to be stop digging, especially ...
So you're following me on twitter. I've not tweeted "I am feeling X" but you're sensing a definite pattern and you think you might have detected my mood. If you suspect I might be in a bad mood you might be wondering if I might snap your head off if you talk to me - I do try not to do this, but it does occasionally happen despite my best efforts. This post will give you some pointers. If my last five tweets are predominantly or exclusively filled with certain things you can draw certain conclusions:Voluble Example tweets: Lots of ...
Here is the report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research on the potential impacts on the UK of future migration from Bulgaria and Romania. I won't attempt to summarise it, except to say this. Nigel Farage has said: The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue. In contrast, Nigel Morris in the Independent summarises the report as follows: (The report) played down predictions that huge numbers will opt for a new life in Britain, suggesting they are more likely to head for Spain, Italy or Germany....NIESR concluded ...
MP's have produced a report today that calls for three pesticides which harm Bees to be banned. I agree with them. I have long campaigned on this ...
[IMG: Ballot box] Seven principal authority by-elections yesterday, as I noted this morning, and no wins, unfortunately. We start with the three by-elections in the one-party state that is Knowsley (sixty-three councillors, all Labour). In Prescot West ward, Ian Smith and the team pushed Labour very hard, achieving a swing from Labour, but sadly not quite enough to gain the seat; Lynn O'Keefe (Labour) – 441 votes (44%) Ian Smith (Liberal Democrat) – 403 votes (40%) Stephen Whatham (Trade Unions and Socialists) – 86 votes (9%) Robert Avery (Conservative) – 62 votes (6%) Robert Mbabu (Green) – 14 votes (1%) ...
For nearly 15 years we have been waiting for something to fill the spot where once hotels and business's stood along the marina front of Bangor. There have been too many plans for some sort of civic centre, shops, flats combination of various of the above. But all the while there has just been a gaping hole from the Vennel along towards the six remaining premises before you reached Southwell Road. It wasn't that from from this large absence of anything of note that I caught my first glimpse of the Olympic Torch last Summer. But that absence has been ...
It's Friday. It's five o'clock. Here's a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week: 5 most-read stories on LDV this week Secret Lib Dem-UKIP talks revealed (16 comments) by The Voice A reply to Dan Hodges: why it's not surprising some Tories aren't bothered about winning in 2015 (9 comments) by Stephen Tall Keep the faith: Liberal Democrats are doing good things in Government, not that you'd know it from today's headlines (54 comments) by Caron Lindsay LibLink: Danny Alexander - Bedroom blockers and tax dodgers will pay (49 comments) by The Voice Special Lib Dem Conference announced ...
Facebook has just shown me this image.... Just remember folks you saw it here first and exclusive in 2010 Indeed here is the detail of what every Tax Payer will benefit from as of next April We've been building a Stronger Economy and Fairer Society since 2010, and been promising it since long before that. We are delivering on what we and we alone promised in terms of fairer taxes to those hard working people. Indeed here is what the Tories said about Income Tax in their 2010 manifesto: Yes the Lib Dems in Government have given people 4 times ...
Cornwall Council has announced the lists of candidates for the elections taking place on May 2nd. In Launceston Central, I'm up against a Conservative from Whitstone and a Labour candidate from the other end of town. Across Cornwall, there will be 103 Conservatives, 91 Liberal Democrats, 76 UKIP, 68 Labour, 26 Mebyon Kernow, 23 Greens, 1 'Liberal' and 90 candidates standing as independents. But the pattern in North Cornwall is very different. Here there are 21 Lib Dems - one in every division. Up against us are 15 Conservatives, 7 Labour candidates, 10 UKIP, 3 MK, 1 Green and 11 ...
[IMG: Guy Verhofstadt] In November, we reported on Guy Verhofstadt's attack on Nigel Farage in the European Parliament. In yesterday's Independent, the Leader of the Alliance of Liberals & Democrats in the European Parliament, gave his views on European migration policy and its effect on the United Kingdom. In a piece notable for its calmness of tone, he points out some of the flipside of the debate, pointing out the benefits of freedom of movement within the European Union, and nailing some of the misleading claims of UKIP leaders and activists. Given the tendency of Nigel Farage and friends to ...
Since I have been knocking on doors I have met quite a few people who don't like immigration. Here is the gist of one conversation from a couple of days ago. I ask if there is anything that I can take up with the council for the householder and the reply is yes, stop letting all the immigrants in. I reply that my daughter went to Australia a couple of months ago and ask if that is alright. The answer is yes so I ask why. My question is answered with a question. Did I bring her up well? I ...
While the focus today has quite rightly been on Sir James' role in the downfall of HBOS and the misery he and his colleagues caused to many, I remember him for other reasons. In late 2006, he was appointed by Gordon Brown, then chancellor, to chair the Public Private Forum on Identity Management. There's still a link to the report he issued in March 2008 on the treasury website – "Challenges and Opportunities in Identity Assurance". It's a fairly dull read and one which completely fails to understand that the way individuals perceive their own identity is usually very far ...
[IMG: Ballot box] The Electoral Commission, the UK elections watchdog, is urging people not to use a paid-for service to register to vote. The independent elections watchdog has contacted 'UK Electoral Roll' after it was alerted to the company offering a £30-a-time 'assisted service' to complete customers' electoral roll registrations. The company also uses a £1.53 a minute premium rate number to take customer questions. Alex Robertson, Director of Communications, said: This service is clearly ripping people off. It is very simple to register to vote and we want to make sure no one mistakenly uses this or any service ...
Last night was a pretty bloody affair at Liverpool Town Hall. The public were well behaved - the Labour Party was not. Knowing that they had lost the argument about the sale of land and the people of South Liverpool, ... Continue reading →
Here's an article that I wholly understand and can 100% support. I am, to the core, a Liberal Democrat. If I were to jump ship when things got difficult, I'd have nowhere to go. There are things that I will stand up and shout about, because we're doing things that should have been done during ...
I've been a Liberal Democrat supporter as long as I can remember. My parents were involved with the party, and often shared their political views with my sister and I when we were children. Therefore, I suppose it is no surprise that I actively support the party today. However, I have to confess that since the Coalition agreement, and the abandonment of the tuition fees promise, I have occasionally wondered why I continue to support the party. A little doubt was creeping into my mind. I never supported the tuition fee policy, but was a little disappointed that some MPs ...
The streets of Belfast city centre and the Cathedral Quarter are set to come alive for five days in May to the sounds of laughter and the sights of acrobatics, music, and comedy as the Festival of Fools celebrates ten years of coordinated comedic chaos. Back in 2004, the first ever street theatre festival in ...
Yesterday it snowed (weary pause) again. It is enough to make a gardener weep with temperatures staying well below average during the day and freezing overnight. The result is that I have had to pot on the aubergines but will have to keep them indoors in the heat all day rather than in the cold conservatory or even the garden itself. From a packet average of twenty, at least twenty germinated so very pleased with the quality of seed. We were in Southend-On-Sea earlier in the week and it was lovely to see their blossom trees flowering, there is barely ...
Liberal Democrats in government are putting money back into the pockets of people across the country through raising the personal allowance to £9,440. This means that over 2 million will be taken out of the Tax System all together since 2010, and 25 million will receive a tax cut of £600 in April. By 2014, ...
I recently started getting back into SEO in a serious way. Years ago I used to be elbow deep in SEO but I guess as you move away from development the nitty-gritty of SEO becomes less critical. But lately I had cause to get back involved with SEO for a project and whilst the basics of SEO haven't changed much, the tools and peripharal techniques have moved on in the past few years. The plethora of tools that have become available to SEO fanatics since I first started optimising for search engines has exploded, and that's great, especially if you ...
There's already a lot of outrage on the internet by the Daily Mail deciding to scream a narrative that Mick Philpott (the violent partner who burned six of his kids to death in a plot to get revenge on an ex) is somehow the product of our welfare system. Which, in addition to absolving Philpott of any responsibility for his crimes, is despicable in saying that this individual monster is somehow reflective of everyone who claims benefits - not to mention is hypocritical in the extreme given that the same edition of the Fail had an article about a millionaire ...
Send to KindleHere's today's hand-picked selection that caught my interest... Trying to fix broken economics | Anatole Kaletsky Fascinating from @kaletsky on the new, emerging & messy economic model » Trying to fix broken economics http://reut.rs/Yyj3BW Philpott fire: Shamelessly exploiting dead children | Mick Hume| spiked Mick Hume on how this crime isn't a morality tale for our times»"Philpott fire: Shamelessly exploiting dead children" http://bit.ly/ZdqGjI The 'individual circs' circus | The Waugh Room | | PoliticsHome Good point from @paulwaugh on Osborne's "individual circumstances" double standard http://bit.ly/16z2Hel Danny Alexander seat protected by Treasury giveaways (Updated) | Westminster blog Via @kiranstacey ...
Yesterday, I had an article published on Lib Dem Voice. Here it is. This is the text as submitted, rather than as edited - so you can play spot the difference!: Earlier this week I saw this tweet from Paul Lewis of BBC Radio 4's Moneybox programme: The 2014 rise in personal tax allowance worth £112 a year for basic rate taxpayer but £39 if on U Credit, & £195 for higher rate taxpayers. — Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) April 2, 2013 This struck me as odd, so I asked Paul how he calculated the £195 figure (I do not know ...
[IMG: Queen Elizabeth II] The country needs to save as much money as it can. Anything we can save will help the government to balance the books. A small but wasteful activity is the requirement for Acts of Parliament to receive Royal Assent. Many people may believe that a Bill becomes law when it is passed by both Houses of Parliament. But it is a requirement for every Bill to go before the Queen and receive her approval. Royal Assent is usually granted a few weeks after the Bill is passed by Parliament. It is presented to the Queen in ...
The idea of giving a clever man a desk in Whitehall is outdated, argues Geoff Mulgan in the third of our series on scientific advice. We need to take seriously the evidence about evidence Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent. In many respects it's remarkable that only now are governments setting up and funding centres dedicated to assessing and communicating "what works". But knowledge is not always easy to use or to digest. The most authoritative advice may be ...
I'm not sure who started this. There's a note on Facebook that says Fiona Goffe wrote something along these lines to Sonia Poulton. Anyway, here's my contribution. I was born in an NHS hospital My father was ill all his life, including while he was bringing me up, and was looked after throughout by the NHS I was taught in state funded primary schools, and at a state funded university I was on the dole once in my life and was helped through it by unemployment benefit, and then family credit. I rebuilt my career with the help of the ...
This will be an occasional feature to keep track of resignations. See the Resignation log above for an attempt at a fuller list of statements, although it doesn't include defections to Labour or the Tories. (Email to let me know about anyone who is missing!) 1) Greg Foxsmith, Islington councillor and lawyer, is yet another loss over the Secret Courts issue. He becomes an independent councillor. His statement encapsulates how the national party so often undermines local networks: "I am acutely aware that the local party in Islington are united in not supporting the 'Justice and Security' Bill. I recall ...
It's 1986. You're working on the Russian's Buran space programme - trying to create a re-usable space vehicle which will exceed the capabilities of the American's "Space Shuttle". There's a problem. You have very complicated real-time algorithms which you need to review, improve, optimise, and then turn into code. How do you do it? Obviously, you invent DRAKON! ДРАКОН, "dragon" Backronym for "Дружелюбный Русский Алгоритмический язык, Который Обеспечивает Наглядность." Translation: "Friendly Russian algorithmic language that guarantees clarity." Drakon on Wikipedia Drakon allows you to transform this: [IMG: Drakon Demo Flowchart-fs8] Into This: [IMG: Drakon Generate JavaScript-fs8] Frankly, it's a little ...
From one 10 minute walk last night, courtesy of the council with the worst roads in the country: [IMG: Haringey pot holes 1] [IMG: Haringey pot holes 2] [IMG: Haringey pot holes 3] [IMG: Haringey pot holes 4] [IMG: Haringey pot holes 5] [IMG: Haringey pot holes 6]
Iain Duncan Smith's mantra is "It can't be fair". It can't be fair that people on welfare get more than people in work - a plausible sound bite that hides a wealth of detail and difference. If people in work are earning such low wages that they need them topped up, then maybe we should do something about wages. But of course that wouldn't occur to him. Come to think of it, is it fair that a man who earns four times the national average wage at the public's expense (Cabinet minister), then gets his booze on the cheap, at ...
[IMG: European Union flags - Some rights reserved by tristam sparks] European 'Financial Transaction Tax' will hit Londoners A research report prepared for the City of London Corporation has estimated the cost of the proposed European Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on UK government debt at £4 billion, with further costs for company debt. Even though the UK is not taking part, bonds issued by our government and companies are traded in EU participating countries and will therefore be subject to the tax. This will raise government spending and the cost of capital and investment. MEP for London, Sarah Ludford said: ...
Here's the new film from the Liberal Democrats: Also on YouTube. You can find out more about the fairer tax campaign, and sign up to support it, at www.FairerTax.org. P.S. Remember, if you are running my campaign buttons, they will be automatically updated to include this new film.
When I worked as an early morning cleaner, a colleague of mine would play a game every Sunday called 'Daily Mail Danger' in which he would start inserting Mail on Sunday supplements as late as possible, and try not to let the Mail readers catch him before they were done. Of course there wasn't a great deal of real danger involved - the punters were hardly going to kick him to death if they did catch up with him, and they didn't get their free knitting pattern / glossy magazine / Bonnie Tyler album. Whilst it might be shocking, Daily ...
Benedict Arnold is one of the most maligned figures in History. Having been a very able commander within the American Colonial army, performing heroically during the campaign in Canada and then again in combatting General John Burgoyne at the battle of Saratoga you would have thought him a celebrated hero. However he will always be linked to the act of treason at Westpoint and the death of Major John Andre in 1780. Vexed with the way that the Colonial cause was being conducted, a growing fear and concern with how the country was to run after England had been repulsed. ...
Having just spent 20 minutes sitting in a traffic queue through Gatley, I was a little surprised to see this tweet from the Poynton-based campaign group opposing the construction of the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road. [IMG: relief road tweet] Perhaps this was some different Cheadle and Gatley? No, the campaigners really were publicly claiming that all was quiet on our roads this week! In reality there have been long queues through both villages and virtual gridlock at times due to the emergency gas repairs on the A34. Public support for the A6 to Manchester Airport Relief Road is ...
I recently visited Ivy in Ashmore Green. A woman in her eighties, Ivy is still bright and lively. When I met her, she had recently given up driving and was still reeling from discovering that her local bus service, the 76, that connects Ashmore Green to the rest of the world, runs once a week. Now, all credit to Jacs Minicoaches for running this service, but a bus that runs just once a week is not something around which you can build a life. A thriving community depends on more than just driving-age adults. How are youngsters supposed to get ...
- Tapjoy, a rip-off merchant embedded in in-app advertising, who have somehow managed to convince big companies like Tesco and Cineworld that they are not, in fact, rip-off merchants. - Whoever does the customer services for my former favourite podcast app Pocket Casts, who seems to think that talking to irate paying customers like they are fuckwits is the ideal way to pour oil on troubled waters. - People defending George Osborne and the Daily Mail for their disgusting extrapolation of the behaviour of one evil man to the entire group of people who claim benefits, whether in work or ...
Grow-your-own scheme is ready to take root . . . - Local - Brighouse Echo This seems like a really good, community-led idea to me :) (tags: ) Reasons Not to Stretch - NYTimes.com Dynamic stretching before and static stretching after has always felt more natural to me. Now there is science! YAY! (tags: ) Easter Is Not Named After Ishtar, And Other Truths I Have To Tell You | The Belle Jar File under "being Dogmatic is bad, whether you're religious or Dawkinsist" (tags: ) LEGO Minifigures Series Ten Has a Very Familiar Warrior Princess Xena, Geekgirl and Medusa! ...
A gem from the Labour Party for the Colchester constituency in 1951: [IMG: Colchester 1951 Labour leaflet. Photo via Matt Hudson http://twitpic.com/cddurb] You can see all the other leaflets in this occasional series about political leaflets here.
This picture of the busway in construction has provoked a lively discussion on the Facebook Busway News Page I took the picture yesterday at the foot of Blows Down, Dunstable while I was out walking with a party from the Wildlife Trust . The occasion was the hand over of land to The Wildlife Trust to manage for wildlife habitats in compensation for land lost to the Luton Dunstable Busway. This particular spot is close to the public footpath that runs through the middle of Jeans Way, Dunstable, and where I have always supposed the people living in that area ...
[IMG: Broke] There is suddenly a great deal of interest in class, following publicity about the new online class survey, which suggests that the traditional class demarcations (upper, middle, working) should give way to seven - from the elite to the precariat. I'm not sure about this. I did the survey myself and discovered that I am 'traditional working class'. This really isn't the case: I could imagine being in the precariat - I am self-employed - but traditional working class, no. I might like to be, but I'm not. The odd thing was that my father did the same ...
"HBOS: Regulator's findings shame three executives who brought down a bank" says the headline in today's Guardian. I thought the point was that these bank executives had no shame to begin with.
Despite being in a Coalition Government there are issues on which the Liberal Democrats remain apart from the two main parties on a point of principle and, I would argue leading the agenda. The most obvious of these issues is the replacement of Trident submarines, a programme that both the Conservatives and Labour are commited to and which has generated new headlines recently because of the tangential issue of North Korea. The Prime Minister seems determined to link the two issues and, as the Independent reports is prepared to publicly criticise and misrepresent the Liberal Democrats for their failure to ...
Sheena Wellington From Sheena Wellington: Friends of Wighton will launch their new Scots Song class in the Wighton Heritage Centre on Saturday 6th April at 11am. The tutor will be well-known local singer Sheena Wellington. The class is open to all ages and no knowledge of musical notation is required. Class fees are £5 (£3 concessions). Also starting this Saturday - the guitar class, tutored by Paul Campbell will take place at 10am in the Wighton Heritage Centre.
How low can George Osborne sink? Yesterday on the BBC he said: "Philpott is responsible for these absolutely horrendous crimes [the death of 6 children]and these are crimes that have shocked the nation; the courts are responsible for sentencing him. But I think there is a question for government and for society about the welfare state - and the taxpayers who pay for the welfare state - subsidising lifestyles like that, and I think that debate needs to be had.". One man, Philpott, who was NOT living exclusively on benefits held up as an example of the alleged general evils ...
[IMG: "2 x inflation in 2 years, 2 x monetary base, 2 x amount bonds purchased"] "2 x inflation in 2 years, 2 x monetary base, 2 x amount bonds purchased" The overnight news yesterday from the Bank of Japan spelt out its serious intent to double the monetary base - the type of monetary easing, a l'outrance, that I have been arguing for at LDV, and elsewhere, for a number of years now. The announcement followed the declaration back in November by the then leader of Japan's opposition that when elected he would force the Bank of Japan to ...
Today's Western Mail reports that a doctors' leader has launched a blistering attack on the state of the NHS in Wales, warning of hospital conditions so bad that he wouldn't want to be a patient: Dr Dai Samuel, chair of the British Medical Association's Welsh Junior Doctors Committee, painted a bleak picture of the "horrific" conditions currently faced by doctors in hospitals across the nation, saying they were only able to provide "substandard" care which is compromising patient safety. And he said unprecedented workloads and high levels of admissions had left staff morale at "rock bottom". Dr Samuel told WalesOnline: ...
The North Devon Journal wins our Headline of the Day Award for the first time.
[IMG: Mark Pack graphic on tax pledge] There is a certain appropriateness that this should be my day, as it is the last day of the tax year for individuals, and for those of you who have to file a Self Assessment tax return, your return for 2012/13 should be available for you to complete soon. Yes, I know, you've got until 31 January to do so (but only if you fill it in online), but given how stressful it is when you leave it until the last moment, why not start early? Of course, it's not too late to ...
On behalf of residents, I recently raised with the City Council's Road Maintenance Partnership the state of the road surface at the Riverside Drive/Avenue roundabout, near to the Riverside Inn. I have received the following response: "There are currently no proposals to carry out resurfacing works at the Riverside Avenue/ Riverside Drive roundabout. However the Road Maintenance Partnership inspector has raised an order for the repair of the potholes with a timescale for repair of twenty eight days or sooner. He will continue to monitor its condition during routine inspections and repair any actionable defects to ensure safety is maintained." ...
[IMG: PACT Logo] 06/03/2013 - 02/04/2013 Information regarding incidents/crimes in the area. Number of calls for area:-195 Number of community related calls:-53 Alcohol seizures:-2 Common areas/Locations:-Victoria Centre, Urban Park Dwelling Burglaries:- 01 Location:-Parliament Street. A door was forced into a bedsit at this location and coins were taken from inside a jam jar. Crime prevention advice:- Enjoy the lighter nights and longer days but remember to follow seasonal crime prevention tips to keep yourself and your property safe: · Cycling is more popular during the spring and summer months, but remember to secure your bike with a good quality chain ...
