I was invited to the official opening at the new Herron Bakery today at Beamish Museum. I am on the joint committee that runs Beamish as a representative of Gateshead Council. This is one of my most enjoyable committees. Beamish is radically different from the traditional perception of museums (stuffy with lots of exhibits in glass cases). It has working exhibits, rebuilt towns and villages
I should be blogging about Syria or about Conference or HS2 or the economy But honestly BBC Question Time The eve of Lib Dem conference The first Question Time of the new season An ex Minister says she won't stand again because of the leader (yes, I paraphrase) The Party President makes overtures to Labour There's a Christians vs the Lions fight raging And they don't see fit to find a single Lib Dem to appear Words fail me
Now, folks, there's been something going on for a little while that I haven't mentioned to many people and haven't blogged about. Some months ago I applied for the parliamentary selection process in North East Somerset. I applied because it's an area that I care about, and I applied because I knew there wasn't a chance I'd come anywhere near getting it, and that it would be a great experience. Last night, I was selected by the good members of North East Somerset and I'll go on to fight Jacob Rees-Mogg (amongst others) at the next General Election. I can't ...
More about the Melksham Link on the Wilts & Berks Canal website.
[IMG: image] [IMG: image] [IMG: image] I've been doing a recce. I was here for the last federal conference in the 1990s, so I know how the land lies. Bejeepers! What have we next to the SECC?! Unbeknownst to the BBC and STV over the Clyde, and the Daily Record next door, a flying saucer has landed and green men are walking around it! Aliens threatening the Leader's Speech! And my goodness, what is this giant cocoon near the SECC, with, no doubt, a giant feral butterfly due to emerge just in time to wreck questions to the Federal Conference ...
So the government has published new figures for the amount of pupil premium that has been paid to each school across the country. In our area here's the direct benefit (for the 2013 figures); Bar Hill Community Primary School £16,200 Dry Drayton CofE (c) Primary School £3,600 Girton Glebe Primary School £19,800 Swavesey Village College £102,300 These figures represent an increase of £44,335 on the 2012 figures. If you'd like to see the national picture, courtesy of Google Maps, then click here.
It's a while since of have been shortlisted for any of these awards, so I am pleased to have made the list in both these categories. Thanks to whoever nominated and selected me. The shortlist for Blog of the Year: David Boyle's The Real BlogJonathan Calder for Liberal EnglandZoe O'Connell for ComplicityMark Pack for Mark PackSam Phripp for So Sam SaidJennie Rigg for The Stony Croutons do not agree with herThe shortlist for Tweeter/Facebooker of the Year: Jonathan Calder @lordbonkersKavya Kaushik @kavya_kaushikMark Pack @markpackStace Williams @stackeeLiberal Youth @liberalyouthIf nothing else, Jennie has the best blog title - though it may ...
Liberal Democrat Voice tells us that a chapter of Paddy Ashdown's bestselling autobiography A Fortunate Life has been released as a free download. Helen Duffett writes there: It's called 1983 - The Winning of Yeovil, and as I wrote in 2009: MP also stands for Military Precision, so it's no surprise that Paddy Ashdown's campaign to become MP for Yeovil was long on discipline and short on creature comforts. If you haven't packed a book for the train to Conference yet, 1983 - The Winning of Yeovil is vital reading for all Liberal Democrat campaigners. And as is typical of ...
I have been having all sorts of adventures today, trying to buy some tickets for a screening of The Wicker Man next month. Visit the site, get told that the SSL certificate is invalid. Examine certificate, and note that it is for http://www.quaytickets.com, not for quaytickets.com without the www. OK, that's stupid, but not too [...]
The Social Liberal Forum's amendments to Nick Clegg's economy motion - supported by an unprecedented number of voting representatives - seek to ensure that the party retains distinctive, independent economic narrative up to and beyond the next election. The narrative...Read more ›
Two free events to help residents find out how they can make their homes warmer and cheaper to run this winter are taking place on Saturday (14 September). The events in Fulbourn and Bassingbourn will feature fun interactive displays to show people of all ages the different ways they can go green to save energy and money. The events are the latest in a series organised by groups involved in South Cambridgeshire District Council's award winning Sustainable Parish Energy Partnership and show how inexpensive DIY options to the professional installation of better insulation, heating upgrades and renewable energy solutions can ...
Residents are being put in the budget setting driving seat by Cambridgeshire County Council. 'You Choose' is a county-wide survey, launched this week to ask residents to put themselves in the seat of councillors in making decisions where to invest and save money. Cambridgeshire County Council is expected to make further savings over the next year of around £39 million. This is following savings of £42 million last year, and a further £32 million this current financial year. These savings have to be made whilst supporting and investing in services such as adult social care, protecting children, boosting the economy ...
The agenda for next weeks Parish Council meeting has now been circulated to Councillors and is included below. As always the "Open Forum" is an opportunity for anyone who wants to talk to the Council to come and have their say. As always any questions, comments or concerns you'd like me to raise let me know. Open Forum Visitors to Meeting - Wiser Recycling Services - Paul Duggen - Bar Hill First responder - David Bridgmen 1. To receive apologies for absence and any declaration of interest and to welcome Catherine Foley and Simon Munford as new Parish Councillors. 2. ...
After several years, the charity of which I am a trustee, Practical Compassion for Destitute Children, now has its own website. http://www.practical-compassion.co.uk We're a small Tyneside-based charity, and we sponsor children in the Holy Land, and work across the divides, with people from all religions and races in that troubled part of the world. As we are all volunteers, nothing we receive in sponsorship or donations is spent on administration, we are a truly grass-root charity, and it's humbling to see how the support we receive for the children we help really gives them and their families a massive boost ...
Cambridgeshire County Councillor, Ian Manning is pushing for joined-up thinking in a bid to solve the problems facing residents living in Cambridge's Fen Road. Ian, who represents East Chesterton, will be speaking at a meeting of South Cambs District Council Cabinet this evening (Thursday, September 12) calling for better consultation with residents on changes to one end of the road that affect residents living at the other. The road crosses from East Chesterton into South Cambs territory and decisions are made by three local authorities - Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council and South Cambs District Council. Ian will be ...
Channel 4 News tonight gave a tantalising glimpse of Liz MacKean's Dispatches programme, to be shown in full later. Of course, one has total sympathy for the apparent victims who have suffered hell for years. But the piece had me thinking who on earth would gain from trying to put the mockers on proper investigation of these allegations at the time the incidents apparently took place? Who are these "powerful forces" who sat on files which exposed the situation? It would certainly be the first time I've heard the Liberal Party of 1974-1979, with just 14 MPs, described as a ...
I do like a good tram, and Brussels is an excellent place to find one. Here's a shot of the interior of one of the new pre-Metro trams, which I took the opportunity to ride this afternoon. What it demonstrates is that you can build a public service vehicle which is efficient and stylish. Compare and contrast with my friends at Greater Anglia, who continue to struggle with aged, decrepit rolling stock and poor infrastructure. Depressing, really...
The Liberal Democrat Voice Awards are but three days away. At 10 pm on Saturday 14 September, in Castle 2 of the Crowne Plaza, with cash bar on hand, and an imaginative dress code, the best in blogging, campaigning, social media and politics in general will be feted in a ceremony filled with razzmatazz, glitz and glamour. Our illustrious judging panel has completed its work. Our thanks go to George Eaton, the editor of the Staggers Blog at the New Statesman, Christine Jardine, journalist, commentator and former Liberal Democrat Special Adviser and recent candidate for Aberdeen Donside, Mark Thompson, last ...
The Social Liberal Forum's amendments to Nick Clegg's economy motion - supported by an unprecedented number of voting representatives - seek to ensure that the party retains distinctive, independent economic narrative up to and beyond the next election. The narrative behind Nick's motion - which, to be clear, has a great deal that Liberal Democrats can be proud of - is clear enough. Here is the rationale behind our amendments. On housing, the motion highlights government guarantee schemes that are yet to scratch the surface of the housing shortage, and recognises that "house building remains well below historical averages." The ...
Watch the new video from Amnesty International UK: Also on YouTube.
I believe Trident is the UK's last, unreformed bastion of Cold War thinking. And I believe we can adapt our nuclear deterrent to the threats of the 21st century by ending 24-hour patrols when we don't need them and procuring fewer submarines. This is the conclusion I draw from the Trident Alternatives Review that the Coalition Government published in July - a Review that clearly would not have happened without Lib Dems in Government. But when the Review was published, some of our critics claimed any changes to Trident would seriously damage our relationship with the US. So I went ...
It is said that the beating of a butterfly's wings on one side of the planet can cause a tsunami on the other side. We have always been somewhat dubious of this factoid. However we can now say that the stance taken by those LibDem MPs who broke ranks with the government's rush to war in Syria can now be seen, in their own way, to have directly derailed the bombing and now we have the Syrian regime (supposedly) agreeing to yield up its chemical weapons: The deed is not yet done but when it is, will we harvest ...
[IMG: The Rock] You can see the Euro-sceptics' logic. They say: We get rules imposed on us by Brussels, so why not leave the EU and be like Norway. Problem. In fact, at least at the moment we have a seat at the table. We have influence on the rules as one of 28. Norway, as a member of EEA has to follow all the rules anyway but has no influence at all on their forming. So 1 out of 28 or zero out of 28. You decide. photo by: Crowbared [IMG: Post to Twitter] Tweet This Post
Like many people reading the front page of the Guardian this morning, I was worried by the headline on the pronouncements by the UN special rapporteur on the removal of the spare room subsidy. But it is important to look behind the headline to see that these comments were based on a very brief visit from this adviser, who did not have the time for a detailed discussion with the Department for Work and Pensions to understand the policy. If she had done she would have been able to understand that this policy brings the rules for the social housing ...
Having lamented conservative Christian's tendency to overemphasise sexual morality, it is only fair to share the reasons I think Liberal Christians don't talk about it nearly enough. For a number of years, I've been attending various churches whose congregations would broadly be described as liberal. During that time I have heard sex mentioned once in [...]
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Opinion: Apprenticeships all across the UK are changing the lives of young people. I should know, be...
I was told growing up that going to University was the pinnacle of all human achievement, that it would set me up for life. I didn't do well in my A-levels and university became out of my reach, so I began working in students' unions instead. Now, as an apprentice in Tom Brake's office, I am gaining knowledge, developing new skills and working towards a qualification - all whilst making a difference in the local area. It has made me passionate to do more; I will be standing to be a councillor at next year's local elections. I've come a ...
I have, it might appear, taken a rather wrong turning en route to Glasgow. The beer is trappist, the time zone one ahead, although there may be more Liberal Democrats within a five mile radius than might be the case in my beloved Creeting St Peter. I do have a good reason to be in Brussels though, in that I'm here to lend my intellectual weight to the Financial Advisory Committee of ALDE, Europe's liberal umbrella party. I've read my papers, submitted my thoughts on the ethics of political fundraising, mulled over accounts (I knew that the bookkeeping course would ...
Aurum Press, the publishers of Paddy Ashdown's bestselling autobiography A Fortunate Life, have released a chapter of the book for free download. It's called 1983 – The Winning of Yeovil, and as I wrote in 2009: MP also stands for Military Precision, so it's no surprise that Paddy Ashdown's campaign to become MP for Yeovil was long on discipline and short on creature comforts. If you haven't packed a book for the train to Conference yet, 1983 - The Winning of Yeovil is vital reading for all Liberal Democrat campaigners. And as is typical of the Chair of the Party's ...
It has not been a good week for Wales Labour as just a cursory glance at today's Western Mail will reveal. They carry a series of articles that indicate that the party's 14 year management of the Welsh NHS has left the service in crisis. The most damning is the claim by Labour MP, Ann Clwyd that the National Health Service in Wales is in a worse situation than in England. She has been tasked with conducting a review of the NHS in England since she took a public stand about the health service following her husband Owen Roberts' death ...
It really is quite extraordinary how much of our newspapers are taken up by two kinds of stories, which now seem to dwarf the rest. One is allegations of various kinds of sex abuse, the other is the gamut of possible scandals around care, services, measurement and inspection. When the history of the 2010s come to be written - and it would be nice to think I might write it myself - we may have to understand our obsession with these issues. I'm not, of course, saying they are unimportant. I am though wondering why they take up quite so ...
Contrary to general opinion I really have nothing against party conference. Indeed, I have been twice and enjoyed Scarborough in 1975 and Llandudno in 1976. But ever since then I've simply never made it. By elections, dear boy, by elections. Indeed September and October by elections are such a regular feature of our local calendar I almost wonder if it's not deliberate. Some wicked Tory plot to keep me away....
Thu 12th
14:54Sarah Ludford MEP writes... Emergency Motion 6 will promote Schedule 7 reform and protect civil libe...
The last time I wrote a piece for Lib Dem Voice I asked for the assistance of conference voting reps to ensure that party conference debates the detention of David Miranda and the reform of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism 2000 - Labour legislation – under which he was detained. A very big thank you to those who responded with support for Emergency Motion 6: Schedule 7 of Terrorism Act 2000 to be in the ballot for debate in Glasgow next Wednesday (Sep 18th from 9:00 to 10.30, item F38). I'm sure the handsome volume of signatures - due to ...
[IMG: proposed-reef-2011] At Autumn Conference in Glasgow next week, Aldes is hosting a joint fringe event with the Green Liberal Democrats to discuss which options are available to harness tidal energy on a scale that could make a significant contribution to the UK's energy mix. The Energy and Climate Change Parliamentary Select Comittee recently rejected a proposal from Hafren Power for a tidal barrage on the river Severn. The Aldes/Green Lib Dems fringe will hear from three expert speakers, discussing a range of other current projects in UK tidal power technology. Our first speaker is Andrew Jamieson, CEO of the ...
The Friends of Garston Library invite you to one or all of a series of evenings for lovers of literature. Each evening involves a talk by an author or authors and a chance to ask questions. And one of them involves a chance to read your own work. On 19th September the focus is on crime and detective fiction, with guest speaker Martin Edwards. On 17th October the topic changes to local history, with guest speaker Mike Axworthy And 21st November is poetry evening, with guests from the Dead Good Poets Society. Each event is free (including refreshments) and runs ...
[IMG: Councillor camp photo] If you're a reader of this site and are coming to the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, do grab me and say hi. It's always interesting to meet readers of this blog or of my Liberal Democrat Newswire monthly newsletter so even if we've never met, do wave hello! The best stalking opportunities are: Saturday The Liberal Democrat Voice awards, where I've picked up three nominations (tweeter of the year, best blog post and best blog), both up against an extremely impressive list of other nominees. So come and watch me lose thrice. 10pm til late, ...
A new application's come in for work at the West Farm Hotel on Greenhill Road. There's been a bit of a delay on this one because of some detail the Council didn't have or hadn't received. Anyway it's all ready for comments now. You can look at the application at this link. Applications Application The deadline for on line comments is 26 September.
Here's today's hand-picked selection that caught my interest... Nick Clegg is perilously short of friends - but his enemies seem determined to help him Fab quote! "The things that make us angry with our own party are things that Labour are useless on" http://bit.ly/15TAxyw (h/t @rafaelbehr) The great Liberal Democrat wipeout? I have a hunch it won't happen | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian Martin Kettle a must-read for Lib Dem-watchers today > The great Lib Dem wipeout? I have a hunch it won't happen http://bit.ly/19Kedoq The next coalition negotiations | Social Liberal Forum Interesting suggestions ...
We've put a special leaflet out to the households in the Churchtown area most affected by Sefton Council's plans to build on the Green Belt.
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Party in a pickle over porn. What were the Federal Conference Committee thinking? #talknottech #ldco...
I was pleased that the party was going to be discussing online pornography, its effect on children and what to do about it at its conference. Here was the chance to get some sensible, evidence based policy made on a subject that the Daily Mail could write rubbish about forever. The motion, however, didn't fill me with joy. It recognises that there is an issue with easy access to online pornography, but the approach it takes is a technological one. No doubt it'll be presented as radical because it's not going to force filters on everybody, as David Cameron wants, ...
Amid general agreement on the thrust of Julie Smith's Committee's excellent paper, and gratitude that Nick Harvey and Danny Alexander have delivered unprecedented transparency on the UK's nuclear options, next Tuesday's debate on defence offers two sharply differing views of the future of Britain's nuclear future. On the one hand, there is Nick Harvey's proposal to retain the Trident missiles, their warheads and associated infrastructure, but reducing our purchase of new Trident submarines from four to two. This means that from the early 2030s, the UK will no longer be able to mount the standing patrols of Continuous At-Sea Deterrence ...
Con seat. Death.
East Lindsey Independent Group seat. Resignation.
Labour seat. Death. Prospective Candidate: Lisa Courts Contact: Rob Lambie, 07739 912448 roblambie@hotmail.com
Labour seat. Death. Prospective Candidate: Clare Body Contact: Rob Lambie, 07739 912448 roblambie@hotmail.com
Here is the recent newsletter from the Friends of Churchtown Library (FoCL). If you would like to join the Friends of Churchtown Library, please email me - Cllr Nigel Ashton, Acting Chair of FoCL, and I will pass your name on to our Secretary.
The Lib Dem conference directory is published as a pdf. It has fringe listings, and handy maps. Except that, incomprehensibly, the maps are badly compressed bitmaps. The maps are also available as high quality images, and it's trivial (with Apple's OSX "print preview" app, for example) to replace the crap maps with the good ones. It took me about 10 minutes, which is why I don't understand why
Meols Ward Lib Dem Councillors John Dodd, David Rimmer and Nigel Ashton, together with FOCUS Editor Jo Barton, are holding their next advice centre on Saturday 14th September, from 11 am to 12 noon at St John's Primary School, Rufford Road, Crossens. We will be there to meet you and discuss any Council problems you may have. No appointment necessary. Just pop in. We hold our advice centre at St John's School, Rufford Road, Crossens every month (except August) on the second Saturday of the month. We also hold a monthly advice centre in Churchtown, at Cafe Moo Moo on ...
When the four hour A&E waiting time target was missed in England, Labour in Westminster described the NHS as being in a state of chaos. They must feel a great sense of embarrassment when they look over the border to here in Wales where that particular target has never been met. As the report published today by the Auditor General for Wales looking at unscheduled care acknowledges, waiting times have generally increased over recent years with far too many patients, particularly the elderly, being forced to wait over 12 hours. It is a disgrace that anyone should have to wait ...
As the summer went along I was grumbling about the films that were around but in hindsight it looks pretty good. I didn't see any really bad films and the disappointments were pretty mild. That said I do wish Hollywood would focus more on original films than endless franchises. Iron Man 3 (7/10) I am [...]
I've found (and disclosed) what I think is an interesting little security flaw in Facebook's Two-Factor Authentication usage. First thing's first, this isn't a show-stopping bug. It's more of a curiosity which shows how different providers treat the verification of Two-Factor Authentication. Details If you are a security conscious user, you should have set up Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). Every time you try to log in to Facebook, after providing the correct password, you are send a security code via SMS. If you enter the code correctly, you're let in. It looks a bit like this. [IMG: Facebook 2FA-fs8] If an ...
Earlier this week I launched my Fairer Delivery Charges campaign. The campaign calls on online retailers to end excessive delivery surcharges and to make surcharges more transparent on their websites. People in the North East of Scotland and in the Highlands and Islands are fed up with the excessive surcharges that some online retailers charge. The campaign is about making sure that consumers no longer have to pay these ridiculous surcharges. Recent examples from constituents that have contacted me include someone who lives five miles outside of Aberdeen being charged £60 instead of £20 for delivery and someone else being ...
Vote UK has a full round up of last week's elections and Lib Dem Voice reports more on the one bright spot of the evenings results - the Lib Dem gain in Wadebridge in Cornwall. The Lib Dems failed to gain Ely East with their vote falling nearly 9% since 2011 and otherwise came behind Labour and UKIP everywhere they stood - with the exception of Boston Fenside where they outpolled Labour 87 to 75 (UKIP gained the seat as expected). In total 1,012 people voted Lib Dem in the six wards (out of ten) they stood in - fewer ...
Thu 12th
11:15The Liberal Democrat Voice Awards: Your chance to choose (2): Best photograph of a Liberal Democrat ...
The original plan was that our esteemed panel of judges would judge some of the Liberal Democrat Voice Awards and our Members' Forum would choose all the rest. We then decided that we wanted our readers to have a say on some of them as well, though. So, here is the shortlist for the Best Photograph of a Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian. And further down there's a nifty poll thingy, where you can make your choices. 1. Nick Clegg, Liberal Youth and a onesie [IMG: Nick Clegg onesie] 2. Mike Crockart's No to Nuisance Calls Banner [IMG: Nuisance calls banner] 3. ...
Sometimes a really simple design works brilliantly if you've got the right idea: [IMG: Male Grand Slam winners. Graph from respighi http://imgur.com/a/U2acE] (If you click through on the image, you can also see a similar graph for female winners too, including Steffi Graf's amazing record).
Thu 12th
10:45The Liberal Democrat Voice Awards: Your chance to choose (1) Online campaign of the year (non Libera...
The original plan was that our esteemed panel of judges would judge some of the Liberal Democrat Voice Awards and our Members' Forum would choose all the rest. We then decided that we wanted our readers to have a say on some of them as well, though. So, here is the shortlist for the Online Campaign of the Year (not Liberal Democrat). And further down there's a nifty poll thingy, where you can make your choices. The shortlist is: Coalition for Equal Marriage Don't Judge my family Equal Marriage campaign (Scotland) EveryDay Sexism. English Disco Lovers Out4Marriage incorporating Lobby a ...
On Saturday the Liberal Democrats' main annual conference starts, this year in Glasgow. As this parliament moves from mid-term to end-game, the party's professionals will no doubt want us to focus on the fight for survival at the next General election, scheduled for 2015. I am more worried about the party's soul. Being part of a coalition government has been a searing experience for the party. It remains strong in some areas, but it is much weaker through most of the country, as members, activists and supporters have drifted away. In national opinion polls the party languishes at about 10%, ...
[IMG: AD LIB September 2013] AD LIB subscribers will have seen this already, but the nice people at the production team of the party's in house magazine have said that I can put it up here for you to read, too. It's a piece outlining some of the many delights of Glasgow for Conference goers. By the way, AD LIB is a good read, so do think about subscribing. I should add that anything remotely cool in the article below is likely to have been inspired by Sophie Bridger, Liberal Youth Scotland's former President and current Scottish Diversity Champion. Scottish ...
Friday 13th the Minister of Rock returns to the airwaves - What would you play? https://t.co/XEkOTIZQMy (tags: (from twitter) ) posted The Blood is The Life 11-09-2013 http://t.co/yl2m9dVbov on #dreamwidth (tags: (from twitter) dreamwidth ) posted Lib Dem Voice Awards: Who I voted for and Who I Think Will Win. http://t.co/HvA6DsfCMw on #dreamwidth (tags: (from twitter) dreamwidth ) Grease Sing Along at Brighouse Cinema - Thursday 19th of September The first of two screenings at my local community run cinema that I am REALLY tempted by. (tags: ) Passport to Pimlico with pie and peas supper at ...
[IMG: sustainable energy] There's an excellent book by Prof David MacKay called 'Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air'. This is a must read for anyone interested in energy policy. To help with that, it's available entirely for free, at http://www.withouthotair.com – although you can buy a copy if, like me, you think you'll want to keep it to hand. Essentially, David MacKay highlights that whatever we do, we have to ensure that the amount of energy used does not exceed the amount of energy available. How do we strike this balance? The first thing we can do is reduce our ...
Andrew Toye writes: The Conservatives in government have decided that their main target for cuts is what they call "welfare". (Social security for working-aged people, not state pensions, education or the NHS.) In other words, the pillar of the Welfare State that Liberals were responsible for from the 1940's. George Osborne's comments, originally in August ...
The ruling Conservative group on Herts County Council are making no changes to the controversial and highly unpopular turning off of most street lights at night. The agenda for this Thursday's meeting of the Highways and Waste panel recommends no changes apart from defining what is a light away from a road. Malcolm Cowan, vice-chair of the Overview and Scrutiny committee said 'We have an all-day scrutiny of Part Night Lighting, as the Tories call it, coming up on 1 October, yet weeks before the scrutiny starts, we receive the verdict 'no change'. It really is contemptuous of those taking ...
I'd previously skipped blogging numbers 1, 2 and 3 in my list of interesting facts about paperclips. So for anyone unlucky enough to have missed out hearing them from me in person, here's a chance to fill in on number 2 courtesy of Gizmodo (which also contains a big hint as to what number 1 is): [IMG: Norway. Photo courtesy of Goodmoodne. Some right reserved http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=1195145] Today I found out that the paperclip was used as a symbol of resistance during World War II.... German troops were operating in Norway, controlling the population of about 4 million people. It was ...
This shows the north side of Dundee's Perth Road, leading eastwards into town towards the right. At the extreme right of the image is Mrs Robertson's Coach Hiring Establishment, at Nos. 43-45 Perth Road. The painters and decorators at No. 47 were Thomas Brown & Son. Mrs C. Foote, a draper, is listed at No. 49, and baker William Coupar at No. 51. To the left and west of Miller's Wynd was the grocer and wine merchant James Aitken, an agent of Kawazwattee teas. He lived at No. 55 Perth Road. The business lasted well into the 20th century as ...
More comedy genius from Australia's Clarke and Dawe: Also on YouTube.
This interview has recently appeared on Youtube. It was recorded in 1994 at the time of Traffic's last LP Far From Home and I have rarely heard Winwood so forthcoming about his career. Jim Capaldi died in 2005.
