The interim report on the removal of the spare room subsidy aka Bedroom Tax makes for sobering reading. Only 4.5% of those affected have downsized to a smaller property, compared to 6% who have been forced to borrow on either credit card or take out loans to cover their additional costs. It's clear from the evidence that the policy is failing to achieve the aim of freeing up social housing for families desperately in need of larger houses as they have children living in overcrowded accommodation. When this issue was debated in Calderdale Council I supported the broad efforts of ...
Political commentators are agreed that Jo Swinson will get a Cabinet post in the autumn: it's just that they can't agree whom she will replace. The other day we saw that both Alistair Carmichael and Ed Davey have been given the black spot. Now David Maddox in The Scotsman has found a new victim: This could be the moment when Mr Clegg considers the position of Vince Cable. The Business Secretary has been a thorn in Mr Clegg's side throughout the coalition and may have been involved in the failed coup attempt organised by his close friend Lord Oakeshott. But ...
When Lord Lothian invited International Development Minister Alan Duncan to address the Global Strategy Forum at the National Liberal Club today on the Arab Spring three years on, he can have had no inkling that Mr Duncan would be ministerially defenestrated the previous night. But in a way that was an advantage as the speaker [...]
[IMG: "Best method for audio library HDD migration = rsync" #OSX #opinions / SML.20130130.IP3] Apologies for a slight temporary glitchette on this site earlier this evening. Fortunately, as usual, GoDaddy, this time through their man Pete, were able to sort out the problem promptly, with great skill, politeness and humour. Our Pete showed me how to do a bit of a self-help relief jobbie on my "overhead table" file in future, to prevent the problem recurring. Apparently, with over 6,300 posts on here since May 2006, I have a file size which is well above average for a WordPress self-hosted ...
[IMG: Michael Gove at Policy Exchange delivering his keynote speech 'The Importance of Teaching'] I'm feeling quite delighted tonight for my brother and other teachers, following the news that Michael Gove has been humiliatingly demoted. He won't even be a full voting member of cabinet any more, just an attendee on the sidelines. And he takes a £36,000 pay cut. So his pay cut is half as much again (+) as the national average wage! His public fight with Mrs May and the trouble-making of his ex-aide Mr Cummings must have been the final nails in his coffin. Paradoxically, given ...
So, Gove is gone. Nicky Morgan is likely to continue in the same line as him, but in reality he himself (whisper it) largely followed the policy consensus over schools that has been since the Thatcher years. It was not ... Continue reading →
It looks like Shropshire Building Supplies at the bottom of New Road will be redeveloped for 29 homes. Two planning applications are due, and the first has been posted on the Shropshire Council website (14/03091/OUT). The Engine Shed will be retained and converted into three apartments with large glazed windows. Twenty-six houses will be built [...]
Sue James' takes a tea break to feed the animals. Some days I feel as if the computer is taking over my life but with animals outside, I have to take a welcome break to give them their tea! First there is Honey, the rescue pig. [IMG: Honey the pig] Honey just loves tea time! Then, regular visitors to my site will know we are hand rearing a lamb. We are trying to move her onto more solid food but she still prefers her bottle. [IMG: Lamb Weaning] Lamb trying some nuts, special lamb food And then there are the ...
[IMG: lib dem conf voting] In March, Sue Doughty invited members to take part in a consultation on the idea of allowing one member one vote for party committee elections and on party policy at Conference. The Internal Democratic Reform Working Group, which Sue chairs, then looked at the submissions they received and the feedback at a consultative session at York Conference. They have now drawn up some radical proposals which will give every member the right to vote on policy at Conference and in Committee elections which they want to submit for debate at Conference in Glasgow this Autumn. ...
Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister Steve Webb has announced the appointment of Dr Ros Altmann as the coalition's Business Champion for older workers. The appointment marks the latest step in the government's drive to support over-50s in the workplace. Dr Altmann will be tasked with making the case for older employees within the business community and the benefits that they bring to businesses. Her appointment follows the publication last month's action plan - Fuller Working Lives - which sets out the benefits that employing over-50s bring to individuals, business and the economy as a whole. Commenting Steve Webb said: "In appointing ...
Liberal Democrats will out and about this weekend to promote our record of delivery in government. A number of national Days of Action are taking place across the country and you are invited to join the campaign trail. We want to tell as many people as possible about the work Liberal Democrats are doing locally and what we have delivered in our communities. Our activists will be knocking on doors, pitching up street stalls and delivering leaflets to tell people about Liberal Democrat wins such as delivering an £800 tax cut for millions of workers and the largest increase in ...
For many years, Liberal Democrat conferences have welcomed the diplomatic community. The International Office's Iain Gill and Peter Lesniak write about the meeting of the diplomatic and party political spheres. In September 1962, at the height of the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy reassured an American public unconvinced of further investment in space exploration, "We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard." What we have learned from this speech, and what resonates today, is that a leader must take bold actions not because they are ...
As a party we care deeply about human rights. Left to their own devices, the Conservatives would have pulled us out of the European Convention. Thanks to the Liberal Democrats, we have stopped that from happening. So I am concerned by some suggestions that the emergency legislation we published on Thursday isn't compliant with ECHR. This is simply not true. As many of you will know, in April this year the European Court of Justice overturned the EU Data Retention Directive. They did so on the basis that this particular directive was incompatible with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, ...
Nick Clegg welcomes the Church of England's vote to allow women to be bishops for the first time in history. The Church of England voted today on whether to allow female bishops, ending 50 years of divisions over the role of women. The General Synod gave final approval to the new legislation, which required a two-thirds majority vote. The motion was backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the announcement was met with cheers. Nick Clegg commented on the good news: "This is a watershed moment for the Church of England and a huge step forward in making ...
Michael Moore has discussed his decision to use his Private Member's Bill to make it a legal requirement for the UK government to meet the UN's target for development assistance every year. The Liberal Democrats have had a long term commitment to the UN's 0.7% aid target and this is the first UK government to reach it. Following his speech at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) on Monday, Michael Moore MP said: "I am very pleased to have this opportunity to make good on a long-held Liberal Democrat commitment to enshrine in law, UK Government spending on International ...
According to the BBC, Chris Rennard's challenge against his suspension from the party has been rejected. The former chief executive of the Lib Dems had been suspended amid claims that he had brought the party into disrepute by failing to apologise over sexual harassment allegations. ... Lord Rennard challenged his suspension from the Lib Dems, saying it was against party rules. A Lib Dem source said: "His appeal against his suspension has been rejected. He remains suspended while the investigation continues." Please note that all comments will be moderated on this post.
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert is fighting plans to redevelop Mickey Flynn's American Pool Club site in Cambridge's Mill Road fearing that they threaten the individual character of the area. Julian has lodged his objection with Cambridge City Council as it considers two wide-ranging change of use applications for the site - one for a shop and one for offices, café or bar. He is worried that the plans do not address the need to protect Mill Road's character or "safeguard the independent, cosmopolitan feel of the street" as laid down by the Cambridge Local Plan. "Mill Road is a thriving ...
Cambridgeshire County Council is part of The Great War, Between the Lines project and we are holding a free commemorative event on 3 August 2014, 1-5pm in Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon. The event aims to raise awareness of this hugely important milestone in world history, It will have activities to engage families as well as inform and educate. 'The Last Day of Peace' will include activities of interest to all ages. The event will be attended by the deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. The event will include: Re-enactors - in costume - to help bring the alive the spirit of the ...
Today the governments Dept for Transport announced effectively a non-decision on night flights. They've extended the current regime by three years keeping the terribly life destroying night flight regime in place. Evidence has shown the detrimental costs of hundred of thousands of disturbed nights sleep far out way the tiny benefit of continuing to allow night flights into Heathrow. The excuse of doing this fence sitting has been given of waiting for the Airports Commission to produce its report. But banning night flights would have made the landscape clearer for this commission. It's clear that the agenda still includes the ...
The CPI index for June 2013 was 125.9, compared to 126.1 in May that year. In 2014, the CPI index for June is 128.3, compared to 128.0 in May. So some of the explanation for the "Sharp rise" (BBC) is stuff that happened a year ago. Really dull chart Why did the index rise? Three components went [...]
Vince Cable has described David Cameron's plans to change strike laws as "simply potty". It is understood that the Conservatives are considering plans to legislate that strikes can only be held if a threshold of 50% of the membership is reached in any ballot. Don't you just love it when politicians say what they really mean rather than communicating with us in 'Westminster' speak. A potty Tory policy indeed! With thanks to the LGiU for the lead to this story.
As part of his reshuffle tweetage, at 13:24 today, David Cameron tweeted as follows: [IMG: image] One slight snag. At that stage David Laws was Schools Minister. He's a Liberal Democrat and David Cameron would have to get Nick Clegg to move Laws, unless Cameron wanted two schools ministers. At 16:41 the Government's website was updated with all the reshuffle appointments, with the exception of the Minister of State for Schools which was still listed as David Laws, rather than Nick Gibb who Cameron appointed to that position via Tweet at 13:24: [IMG: image] Note also that there is no ...
[IMG: key_awards1] It's that time of year again when members decide who should be in line for an award at Conference. It could be someone who has worked tirelessly in their local area to elect Liberal Democrats or implement our policies or someone who has given years to our cause by working hard as councillors or candidates. Maybe a political assistant to a councillor or someone who has supported a local MP in the hard work that they do. Perhaps even a local party who has worked to increase the representation of women, LGBT people and ethnic minorities in everything ...
We've had a message from LDHQ's Tim Hobden, encouraging members to promote the recent appointment of a government Champion for Older Workers. Tim's message (along with a template press release and some ONS figures to customise the release) are included below: "Here is a good template which could make a decent story for the summer [...]
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On DRIP and the wider implications for Lib Demmery, or how Julian Huppert broke my heart
I GET that DRIP is significantly less awful with the Lib Dem input than it would have been otherwise. I GET that Lib Dems in government fought hard to get the measly concessions we have got in a horrifically authoritarian bill that will give future secretaries of state for the home office carte blanche to introduce all the powers of the snoopers' charter without parliamentary oversight. I GET that we are the junior partners in a coalition and we can't have everything all our own way. I get that compromise is the only way anything would ever get done under ...
I have an opinion that more women should be involved and fully engaged in the world of politics. I am also of the opinion that more men should be involved and fully engaged with the world of politics. I think more gay people should be. I think more straight people should be. I think more working class people should be. I think more middle class people should be. I think more people who love Marmite should be. I think more people who loathe Marmite should be. I think you get my point. I want a world where people from all ...
[IMG: Lily] The Assisted Dying Bill returns to the House of Lords this week following high-profile interventions by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby [£], and his predecessor-but-one, George Carey. While the bill may receive a second reading in the Lords, it stands little chance of progressing in the Commons. This is because key MPs, including David Cameron and Nick Clegg, are firmly against it. I respect the sincerity of Cameron and Clegg's concerns, but I also believe their stated views show that they have not approached the issue in the right way. It is vital that any debate in ...
I have just heard, via a Royal Mail press release, that Hornsey Delivery Office and parcel collection point will be relocated in September – to the Bush Industrial Estate in N19. I am angry – to say the least! After local residents and I successfully campaigned to prevent the closure in 2012, Royal Mail assured me that I would be kept informed of any future plans. Yet this came out of the blue. Just two weeks ago, a Royal Mail representative wrote to me saying: 'I can confirm that there are no plans in place to close Hornsey Delivery Office.' ...
How often – and how well -Wokingham Borough Council cuts the grass on the verges and in the parks is a hot topic at the moment. As it was last year. For the same reasons. Which are generally around people thinking grass is too long, and wondering whether the cutting is actually being done when it is supposed to be. I had been saying for a while that it would be a big step forward if we could find out when the grass was SUPPOSED to be cut. We haven't got qite that far yet, but a list of when ...
At today's meeting of HCC the Liberal Democrat group fought to save local bus services from swinging cuts planned by local Conservative politicians. County Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst said "We need full and detailed information to make sense of these budget cuts and what they will mean for non-commercial bus services. "It might be that there are other options we could consult on, such as fare changes, rather than these swinging cuts that shall affect 200,000 passengers a year on 39 different routes." County Councillor Sandy Walkington commented "This shall affect young people and the elderly, but also commuters who rely ...
Via Buzzfeed comes the list of 25 political party names that the Electoral Commission has rejected since 2010, meaning that the party in question has had to pick a different name to be its official name and to be on ballot papers:* [IMG: Rejected party names] Note the acronym rejected for being too long. That is because the Electoral Commission's view is that each letter in an acronym counts as a word – something I remember debating with them when I used to be work at Liberal Democrat HQ, dealing with election law matters amongst other things. I decided it ...
Today the government has announced that Newquay Cornwall Airport is on the shortlist of sites for a possible UK spaceport. The Cornish location is on the list alongside six Scottish locations and one one Wales. It's early days in any project and there hasn't been any public money spent on it. But the news does show the potential that the runway and surrounding enterprise zone has for attracting investment and high paid and high skilled jobs to Cornwall. The area already hosts the BLOODHOUND Project - the UK-led global project to build a supersonic jet-powered car - and many other ...
So far this summer I have been busy getting all my short stories, sci-fi and poetry into ebook formats of one form or another in an effort to try and consolidate all my stories into something more tangible than just collecting the proverbial dust in old hard drives, floppy disks and even good old word processor and typewriter files... yes they do go back that far.And, as I was searching around, I found and reread Space Zombie Holiday and its half-finished sequel and found I still like it and so now you can own a copy too on Kindle Edition ...
[IMG: 20140201-202125.jpg Sarah Yong] It is with a sad, and heavy, heart that yesterday I heard of Sarah Yong's decision to stand down as PPC for Somerton and Frome for personal reasons. What is even sadder is that people are demanding to know the personal reasons, either because the privacy of an individual is less important than what this means to the party or to show it's not because of the party prospects. If an employee (even CEO) of an organisation stepped down for personal reasons it is normally respected and the organisation moves on. As a parliamentary candidate in ...
Tomorrow, Wednesday 16th July, Gateshead's planning committee will be taking its long awaited decision on the Marley Hill opencast application. UK Coal want to extract one million tonnes of coal from a site to the south of Marley Hill which they want to work for four and a half years. The application was submitted two years ago. Since then I have led the campaign to have the application
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[IMG: Downtown Grand Rapids] Let there be national rejoicing! Gove has gone from our schools! No more of him messing around with the curriculum! No more ludicrously dogmatic favouritism towards free schools! No more trying to take the exam system back to the sixties! Let there be unalloyed joy! In future he will whip Tory MPs and appear on TV to turn people off voting Tory in their millions! Photo by Kirsten photo by: [IMG: Post to Twitter] Tweet This Post
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http://harkive.org is a project to see what people listen to over the course of one day, today, and they've asked people to note everything they listen to on their blogs. I'll be updating this as the day goes on. My primary method of music listening at the moment is on my laptop. I have two [...]
[IMG: 168] Do you know a young person who has gone out of their way to help someone in their community? Or perhaps you know someone who volunteers their time to bring the community together? Peterborough City Council has launched its new Civic Awards to recognise residents, groups, organisations and businesses who have made a real difference to their local community. The city council is asking people to nominate individuals or groups they think deserve to be recognised for their efforts and achievements. The categories for the awards are as follows: Young Person Lifetime Achievement Community Involvement Business Environment Contribution ...
[IMG: women bishops] All liberals, of whatever political persuasion, will welcome the news that the barriers to appointing women bishops in the Church of England have now been removed. There has been a lot of misinformation flying around, with the glib portrayal of the bishops as a crowd of geriatric misogynists, so a few facts might help to improve the debate. The General Synod, which is the governing body of the Church of England, first approved the appointment of female bishops in principle in 2008. Since then it has been trying to agree on the provisions to be made for ...
The latest in a long line of senior Labour figures to question Ed Miliband's leadership is the heavyweight former Home Secretary, Charles Clarke. The Telegraph reports Mr. Clarke has warned that the Tories are on course to win an overall majority at the next election because Ed Miliband is a worse leader than Neil Kinnock: Charles Clarke said that Labour has "no narrative" and Ed Miliband is failing to appeal to voters because he has an "assembly of odd policies". Mr Clarke also criticised Mr Miliband for failing to "set out clearly" how he would control the deficit and said ...
What happens when your normal existence comes under threat? We seem to alternate between two extremes. One is paranoia. We see this now with Jihadi extremists, where many Britons see the threat of terrorism everywhere, and are happy to vastly expand the surveillance powers of the state so that any plot can be intercepted before execution. I remember a similar paranoia over Soviet Communism in my youth, in the 1970s. But the more common response is denial. We keep going with our ordinary daily lives without thinking about it, dismissing the threat with half-baked arguments that don't stand up to ...
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of joining many Lib Dem councillors in Bournemouth at the LGA conference. Like conference, I always feel refreshed when I attend these events, because it's a chance to share the brilliant work Lib Dems do, and to remember why we do it. We know that the year ahead holds [...]
Wain Homes are holding a public exhibition to get opinions on a scheme to build housing at Withnoe Farm, Launceston. The event takes place at Launceston College from 12 noon until 7pm on 30th July. The site is next to Hay Common where permission has already been granted for new homes and a new primary school. It is south of the A388 Plymouth Road and the slip road onto the A30. Public exhibitions such as this are a useful first stage in any major scheme as they allow developers to understand the views of the public and to make changes ...
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Introduction of Charges at Household Waste Recycling Centres for certain types of waste
Cornwall Council will be introducing a charge for certain waste streams that are deposited at the HWRC sites by the public. The charges will take effect from Monday 1 September 2014. The waste we will be charging for and the respective charges are: Soil / rubble (including bricks, blocks, tiles, rubble, paving slabs, concrete posts, sanitary ware, toilets, etc ) - £1.75 per sackPlasterboard ( including gypsum related products ) - £4.40 per sheetAsbestos - bonded type only - £10.10 per sheetTyres - commercial and agricultural vehicle types will not be accepted. There will be no charge for bicycle tyres. ...
If you need a good cry, read this. (tags: ) Planet Rock's Mutley Crew - this is an awesome idea! Meet up with likeminded rock fans for friendly joint dog walking sessions. Don't be surprised if BRIAN BLESSED turns up. (tags: ) Passport official suspended over 'interrogation' of gay applicant As Elmyra said on twitter: "Friendly reminder that the Home Office is allegedly the 5th best employer for LGB people in the UK" - the bad must the OTHERS be then? (tags: ) [IMG: comment count unavailable] comments
The American mapmaker Rand McNally launched their groundbreaking Places Rated Almanac in 1981 and it changed the whole argument about cities. It coincided with research that showed the most attractive cities for investment were not, actually, the places with no regulations and tax breaks. They were the places where the CEOs of companies wanted to live - and they wanted clean air, green space, theatres, good schools for their children and so on. It marked the beginning of the Civics movement in the USA and it rescued cities like Pittsburgh, where - in the 1970s - the streetlights had to ...
[IMG: White Rabbit Super Yacht visits Melbourne] Andrew Rawnsley, in the Observer, describes the rumoured Westminster paedophile scandal and asks the question: "Whom do you trust? Comes an answer that is as popular as it is succinct: trust no one." Rawnsley wearily summarises why we have lost trust in bankers, doctors, intelligence services, police, bishops, supermarkets, media and celebrities - and above all, politicians of all sides, from Blair onwards. Then he gets more original. He identifies judge-led enquiry as a means of establishing who we can trust - and then shows how that option was kyboshed. When Hutton exonerated ...
In an unexpected first step as Chief Whip Michael Gove has announced that from September every Conservative MP can apply to be free MPs. At the moment free MP status is restricted to a handful of 'independent MPs' such as Douglas Carswell, Andrew Percy and Philip Hollobone. Mr. Gove however has now announced a massive expansion of the Free MP programme. In a statement to Conservative MPs he said: As a nation, we are blessed with some of the best MPs in the world. But at the same time, we also have too many that are still struggling. In addition, ...
[IMG: David Cameron - Some rights reserved by The Prime Minister's Office] David Cameron's extensive reshuffle of the Tory ministerial ranks will continue today. Last night we learned of the casualties; today will be dedicated to the winners. But there's no doubt at all about the biggest casualty: moderate, One Nation Toryism. Ken Clarke, famously dubbed the sixth Lib Dem cabinet member, has gone. Too sensible to be left in charge of the Justice ministry he was exiled to the Cabinet's fringes in 2012; now he has been retired completely. William Hague – transformed from a right-wing Tory leader who ...
[IMG: Social Liberal Forum] The Social Liberal Forum have organised their next conference to take place in London on this Saturday 19th July. You can register via the website. We have an excellent line up of speakers and all Liberal Democrats of various shades of opinion are very welcome to attend, and for that matter anyone outside the party who is interested in the Liberal Democrats. The theme will be "Governing as Liberal Democrats", an important topic as we gear up for the 2015 general election where the outcome looks likely to be close and the Liberal Democrats may well ...
[IMG: Bottle+Rocket-Owen+Wilson-Luke+Wilson-Robert+Musgrave] About twenty years ago, a young Texan upstart named Wes Anderson managed to convince a major studio to give him the money to make a film about a bunch of misfits who try and become professional thieves yet fail miserably. To star two brothers who had never been in anything before. Impressive, but partially due to nature of the indie film world at the time; if you wanted to be an auteur, the 1990's were the golden era. In the early part of that decade, the Sundance Film Festival struggled to get enough submissions to fill the forty ...
I have recently received complaints about the deteriorated state of the steps within the Pentland estate that run between Pentland Avenue to Pentland Crescent and also between Pentland Crescent to Colinton Place. Responsibility for their maintenance now lies with council's City Development Department and, following my raising the situation with the department, an officer from the department has now updated me as follows : "I have visited the site and whilst I did not see broken slabs, there are, however, areas where the joints in the slabs require some cement pointing and some of the vertical brick risers require some ...
A line delivered by Gene Kelly in the 1960 film, Inherit the Wind. Kelly (E.K. Hornbeck) says, "Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" Sadly, I suspect that many in the press these days see their job almost in reverse i.e. Comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. With thanks for Cllr. Jen Robertson for digging up the quote which actually goes back well beyond the version used in this film. The origin of the quote is this from a late 19th/early 20th century American writer Finley Peter Dunne: "As ...
As people will be aware from the media Bury Council has announced that it intends to become the ONLY council in the country to undertake three-weekly collections of the the 'normal' grey bins. The change would also meant that our green and blue bins move to three weekly (currently they are every four weeks). Brown bins and food 'caddys' would stay at 2 weekly. Some flats would stay at two-weekly collections for grey bins as 3 weekly is apparently impractical. The change would take place in October this year. [IMG: Screenshot 2014-07-10 08.43.47] Background Just so people know the announcement ...
I was only able to keep a diary of my time as SpAd in the last two and a half years. The first eighteen months passed like a distressing satirical overdose, and flashbacks occur fitfully. This stems from one of them. One of the key missions of the early months of Coalition was to find [...]
We're very happy to pass on news of cheadlevillage.net – the new community website for Cheadle with local news, events, history, groups, businesses and more – take a look! [IMG: cheadle village net]
Two more useful diary dates to add to the previous list: 18 July, 8.30pm- 1am Shangri La! alternative cabaret night: the Carlton Club, Prestwich , www.theshangrila.co.uk 19 September 8.30pm- 1am Shangri La! alternative cabaret night: the Carlton Club, Prestwich , www.theshangrila.co.uk
Devolution of power and responsibility from Westminster and Whitehall to regional and local government has been part of the Liberal/Liberal Democrat creed for a s long as I can remember. So I suppose we should welcome the government's decision to devolve a power to local councils. But what a daft power: the right to close roads and abandon speed limits so as to run motorcar races. I've never regarded motor racing as much of a sport. I acknowledge that driving a car very fast requires both physical and mental skill, and designing a car that goes very fast requires clever ...
Over the next three weeks some road resurfacing will be taking place in the centre of Cheadle village: along Wilmslow Road from Brooklyn Road up to the junction with Gatley Road, then along Gatley Road to Warren Avenue. To minimise disruption the work will be done between 7pm and 2am Monday to Thursday with noisy work completed as far as possible by 11pm each night.
Please find below information on the 'Community Threads' clothes re-cycling project set up by Bury Council Day Services. It provides and opportunity for the Day Services' customers to be involved in raising money for charity and developing skills and experiences. [IMG: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) 1] [IMG: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) 2]
Please note that the Parklife organisers will NOT be attending the next meeting of the Prestwich Township Forum (23 July 2014, 6.30pm, Longfield). There is (we understand) a long de-brief process from the event and it is not yet certain which meeting of the Township Forum they will be able to attend. More information when we know. At the Township Forum a number of 'round table' discussions will be held on a wide range of subjects in the Local Plan, from health and wellbeing to education and learning, community pride and safety, and town centre regeneration. The meeting includes the ...
Mr. Tambourine Man is almost unique in popular music — a track so determinedly formulaic that it inadvertently spawned a whole new genre. The Byrds had formed in 1964, inspired by A Hard Day's Night, and were so desperate to be a British Invasion act that they had hired their drummer, Michael Clarke, purely on [...]
