Dave Mitcheson revisits the 1971 film's locations (though not the most famous of them - the Trinity Square car park in Gateshead).
As Sir Vince is down with the kids, this report comes from the Newsbeat site: Vince Cable says the Liberal Democrats will keep pushing for the legalisation of cannabis. The party's new leader believes it makes sense to "regulate and control the market" rather than let criminals "control the mixing of substances". ... Mr Cable believes "there are serious side effects from driving it underground". "You get toxic varieties like skunk that have the effect of creating psychotic disorders among their users," he told us. "Common sense would suggest that you should regulate and control the market rather than have ...
[IMG: Old St Pancras] "Officials took me through the cost-benefit analysis used by the Department for Transport and the Treasury to assess the viability of transport projects. This was almost exclusively an economic test and projects were judged by the economic value they created. In short, projects in parts of the country where the economy was strongest were more likely to score highest." Andy Burnham explains why the North of England misses out on public investment. Oliver Newham briefs us on Sheffield City Council's war on trees. Victoria Coren Mitchell attacks the government's failure to curb the spread of fixed-odds ...
Here's a roundup of media comments made by Lib Dem parliamentarians and spokespeople today. GP numbers Norman Lamb slammed the Government for failing to deliver more GPs: The government's promise to recruit 5,000 more GPs by 2020 lies in tatters, with fewer GPs now than when this pledge was first made. "The pitiful increase we have seen in recent months is nowhere near enough to cope with rising patient demand. "This failure to recruit enough doctors will inevitably have a damaging impact on the ability of patients to access the healthcare they need. "We are already close to breaking point, ...
(From the 2002 anthology A Life of Surprises, ed. Paul Cornell) Bernice Summerfield, badly hung over and desperate for coffee, collected her mug of double espresso from the Starbucks counter and looked round for somewhere to sit before she fell over. Starbucks were the same the galaxy over, it seemed. Even in her time. The cafe was full. Not an empty table. She looked round for a table to share. Ignoring the welcoming smiles of a number of hopeful young men - nice to know she still had it though - she chose a window table, where an attractive dark-haired ...
"Successful campaigns tell a story": wise advice from this mini-documentary on political campaigns produced by the New York Times.
Trigger warning for child abuse. There are kind of rules – good rules that are there for good reasons – governing how we talk about racial issues, when we must. Properly contextualise. Look for similarities rather than differences. Don't make or appear to make generalisations about groups of people. When I was at school we had leaflets thrown over the school fence with the faces of white people who had been killed by black people. The object of the leaflet was to encourage racially motivated violence to "even up the score" using crimes that, if they happened at all, probably ...
Sir Paul Jenkins has called Theresa May's Brexit strategy 'foolish' for hoping to distance the UK from the European Court of Justice whilst maintaining the benefits of the single market. Commenting Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Ed Davey, said: "Either Theresa May is trying to con Brexiteers and really understands the critical legal point Sir Paul Jenkins is making - or she is heading for the hardest of Brexits, despite the evidence that this could only work at huge cost to British people. "The Conservatives are refusing to admit publicly that Europe will still require Britain to abide by their ...
It has been confirmed that the Council is in discussion with the Forestry Commission about leasing significant parts of Prestwich's parks and open spaces to the Government agency. The Council owned sites that are subject to discussion with the FC are, in Prestwich: · Philips Park and Mere Clough (Prestwich) · Prestwich Clough excluding the St Mary's Flower Park (Prestwich) and further north: · Outwood Trail linking Waterdale/Philips Park to Outwood · Outwood · Mount Zion Road sewage works The area north of Waterdale that straddles the motorway is owned by United Utilities (UU) with the expectation that this could ...
South Glos Council has launched its prospectus of new courses for 2017-2018. There will be information and enrolment sessions at Yate Library: Tuesday 5 September - 10.00am to 12noon Thursday 7 September - 5.00pm to 7.00pm Check out the Community Learning web page for full details - click on the "Prospectus" link.
To me the most significant sentence from President Trump's "Afghanistan" speech yesterday is this: "...we will no longer use American military might to construct democracies in faraway lands or try to rebuild other countries in our own image." Here here. British imperialist (and there are still many around) please note. And they're not all Tories: I think Tony Blair called it "Liberal Interventionism." The mistake has been to think you can dump yourself on another country, institute "free elections" and walk away thinking you have created a democracy. Any text-book will tell you that there are many ingredients which together ...
Mon, 12:56: Worldcon 75 WSFS Division Post-Con Report https://t.co/pFVjBaVed7 My DH writes. Mon, 13:48: RT @MSmithsonPB: Chart of the Opinium did you believe the Leave "�350 m a week to the NHS" claim? Via @tomholder https://t.co/gdqehUJ6mR Mon, 14:49: RT @JolyonMaugham: Economists for Brexit. But not for you (https://t.co/v6kvwHXaGC). https://t.co/1tbDFt0q1g Mon, 14:55: Very sorry to hear this. Probably the most important sf author I ever met. https://t.co/IHVINfYPuO Mon, 15:08: Brian Aldiss, 1925-2017 https://t.co/GOe2xz3e9G Mon, 16:06: Five sf novels that stay in my mind https://t.co/XpwTR4kMGj Mon, 16:30: RT @StevePeers: A "Labour" MP praising an economist who backed 1980s unemployment and the poll ...
Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count?
Week by week the countdown to March 2019 looms closer. The chances of stopping a disastrous hard Brexit are slim, but there is a small window of opportunity if we go about it in the right way. As Vince Cable and Nick Clegg emphasise, it all rests on building a coalition of moderates with the courage to break out of the extreme Brexit groupthink. This means that we need a Brexit position which is decisive, but also respects those who are resigned to the prospect of Brexit - for now – and reaches out. A clear majority of constituencies voted ...
While Jeremy Corbyn regards the EU as a capitalist conspiracy against the proletariat and the Tory Right regards the EU as a threat to the British Empire, EU institutions start the work of separating the UK from the world's most successful international organisation. We learn today that the European Investment Bank has, in effect, closed the doors on further medium and long term loans to public
James ordered himself a hot chocolate and took a seat by the window in Starbucks. Harris was late. No surprise really. He watched the creamy brown liquid cool. He never drank it while it was hot for fear it would burn his mouth. He preferred it when it was warm. He slipped off his coat and draped it over his chair and that's when he saw him. Harris slipped between the door and an exiting older couple and quick stepped over to the table. 'Sorry, buddy, hair took a little longer than normal.' James checked out the mane of hair ...
It is more than 17 years now since, I gather, I coined the phrase 'virtual currencies'. I know this because of Wikipedia which tells me that nobody used it until "around 2009", but I know I wrote a Financial Times Management Report called Virtual Currencies in 2000. So, hey, it must have been me... It is [...] The post Why bitcoin needs regulation – by the right people appeared first on Radix.
Pennine Acute, which runs our local hospitals at Oldham, Fairfield, Rochdale and North Manchester are asking the public to nominate their NHS heroes as part of an annual staff awards event. If you or a relative have had amazing treatment at these hospitals, or if you or your family want to thank a particular doctor, nurse, support worker, or ward that did their best to treat and look after you, then this is your chance. The Patients' Choice Award gives the general public and Trust members the opportunity to say 'thank you' and publicly recognise the outstanding care and treatment ...
A new school bus fare structure is to be introduced, Transport for Greater Manchester has announced. From Friday, September 1, a single flat-rate fare will be introduced on all school services that are paid for by TfGM. The new flat fare will replace the existing system, in place from 2011, whereby children are charged one of three different fares depending on the distance they travel. For children with igo passes, the new single fare will be £1.30, the new return fare will be £2.20 and the new cost of the school weekly ticket will be £7.00. Apparently these increases represent ...
Best wishes to residents who are taking part in the big Manchester LGBT Pride event this August Bank Holiday weekend. The 'main event' is ticketed (tickets available here), but of course it is free to watch the parade. This sets off 12.30pm on Saturday 26 August 2017 from Liverpool Road. This map shows the route and apparently the spots marked 'v' are the best viewing points.
Harris Education and Recreation Association has an excellent Autumn programme of evening classes starting in September - details below or click here for a more readable version. Enrolment night is at the school on 31st August from 6pm to 7.30pm :
Just how prepared is the UK for the new Government policy of phasing out petrol and diesel cars by 2040? According to this article in the Daily Telegraph, there is still some way to go. They say that electric car owners have been warned that if they attempt to boil a kettle while charging their car it will blow the fuse: The National Grid have expressed concerns that an average size 3.5kW battery charger would take 19 hours to fully charge a car battery, even when it is 25 per cent full. A "thought piece" document obtained by the Financial ...
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How it looks like the government is involved in a year long climbdown on hard Brexit - will it work?
"UK offers climbdown on European courts deciding cross-border cases" reads a Guardian headline this morning. This is in response to a government paper released today that sets out the need for a smooth transition from what we have now as a member of the EU and what a post-Brexit judicial world will look like. This follows a trend: everything the government is putting forth this summer on Brexit is about "transition" and the need for it. "A judgment obtained in one country can be recognised and enforced in another. For example, with more and more families living across borders, we ...
