From the Leicester Mercury this evening: Councillors have voted by some distance (12-2) to defer making a decision on the track. They hope the big brains at Horiba can go away and come up with something the BOTH delivers their track and preserves the battlefield in its entirety. But Horiba have been pretty clear tonight there's only one plan that can deliver the technical requirements the track demands. It was the one on the table and councillors just passed up the opportunity to approve it.The planning authority for the area is Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.
A little old now, but still a very funny round-up of 30 years of American politics in song form.
A graphologist (handwriting analyst) was interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning. Resisting the urge to immediately rant on Twitter about the pseudoscience of graphology, I headed upstairs to my study instead. Since then I've spent some time refreshing myself on the arguments for and against the art. My own interest is in its use at work, so I'm not that ... The post Graphology: Mere wishful thinking? appeared first on ten pence piece.
Despite all the controversy and indeed industrial action as a consequence of Merseytravel ordering new rolling stock that does not require train guards the new trains are presently being manufactured by Stadler the Swiss company who won the bidding process. The Liverpool Echo has an article about a mock up of the trains on its web site – see link below:- The mock up is due to go on show to the public in Liverpool's Lime Street in November.
For a long time, the thought of a hung Parliament was a promised land to Liberal Democrats. In as much as the party had a long-term strategy after the demise of Paddy Ashdown's flirtations with Tony Blair (which brought some important successes but ended in failure) it was a Rennardism-based one of gradually building up strength in the House of Commons seat by seat. The plan, rarely stated in public or written down, but a plan nonetheless was that the number of Lib Dem MPs would eventually be high enough to ensure a hung Parliament. At which point the party ...
At the last meeting of Bury Council, Liberal Democrat Councillors Mary D'Albert tabled a formal question to determine the number of home care visits, commissioned by Bury Council, are of 15 minutes or less. "Could the Leader of the Council inform members of the number and proportion of home care visits undertaken within the borough in 2017-18 that were 15 minutes or less, and 5 minutes or less, and how does this compare to previous years? " Here is the response: Bury Council commission's Care at Home services for Adults which are based on the individually assessed needs of each ...
Applications are being invited from local groups for the Bury Standing Together Community Grant Fund, which is awarding grants of up to £5,000 to successful applicants. Applications will need to demonstrate how their proposal makes a contribution towards keeping people safe, reducing harm and offending, and strengthening communities and places across Bury. These priorities reflect our most pressing community safety issues and are underpinned by a commitment to safeguard the most vulnerable people in society. Funding has been provided by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) for 2018/19 to encourage voluntary, not for profit and charitable groups to develop and ...
Second paragraph of third chapter: Thumping noises sounded from the bedroom above. They grew louder. There was a crash, then another, as furniture was hurled about. The a loud thud, follwoed by silence. I saw the Oscar-winning film when I was a teenager, and was somewhat confused by it, knowing a bit about the Vietnam war but much less about the blue-collar culture which turns out to be the main theme of the story. It's a very effective film, in sound and vision, and some of it has lingered with me for three decades. It will be some time before ...
Tue 28th
12:39
Would a centrist, anti-Brexit Labour Party really be way ahead in the polls right now?
The idea that a more centrist, and more crucially an openly anti-Brexit Labour Party would be way, way up in the polls (10 points? 20 points? I've heard as high as 30 this morning) over the Tories has become an article of faith amongst a certain political set. Equally, this tends to get shot down by pundits who point out that one of the reasons Corbyn tries to sound somewhat Brexity all the time is because a lot of Labour held constituencies voted to Leave. What do I think? Without wishing to equivocate here, it really depends. If the Labour ...
The worst boss stories I've heard in a decade-plus of writing a workplace advice column. Bosses are crazy. Pope Francis advocates gay conversion "therapy". ... which I suppose is a tiny step up from Pray Away The Gay, but is still not in any way acceptable. Fight! Fight! Fight! Who was worse? Lovecraft or Heinlein? Really interesting comments on this. Twitter thread of filthy food porn Made me drool so bad. ann_leckie | On Liking Stuff (or not) Excellent post Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Have you ever wondered why Paul Simon wants ...
With more than £500m a year at stake, the scale of losses to UK research from a no-deal Brexit are becoming clear On 14 June 2016, just over a week before the EU referendum, Vote Leave were keen to calm the fears of British scientists, farmers and others who relied on European funds. The thirteen Vote Leave ministers signed a pledge, still standing on Vote Leave's website, that "If the public votes to leave on 23 June, we will continue to fund EU programmes in the UK until 2020." One of those thirteen signatories was Dominic Raab. How ironic then, ...
Mon, 12:56: RT @MSmithsonPB: My Tweet on polling from September 6 2015. https://t.co/rzCu8F0iXz Mon, 13:59: 42 Lesser Known British Children's TV Shows https://t.co/p1RzjnxrUw Wow. Mon, 15:02: When love flourished in M for medical textbooks https://t.co/BforX9p0qx Aww. Lovely story. (Hat-tip to @urchinette) Mon, 16:05: RT @johndavidblake: My cousin found this ring in a stream near our home. Well, I say my cousin, I found it really. Anyway, could I get some... Mon, 16:45: All career advice for women is a form of gaslighting https://t.co/AXLKbeOEkW Interesting point. Mon, 17:56: Give the People What They Want: Advocacy Campaigns Designed for Today https://t.co/yBAoLtQk47 My ...
Responding to the Prime Minister's visit to drum up trade in Africa, Liberal Democrat Brexit Spokesperson Tom Brake said:"The Government are clearly losing the plot, when in the same breath they both talk up trade with Africa and claim that a 'No-Deal Brexit' with our largest trading partner, the EU, would not be a catastrophe."The truth is that the UK within the EU could trade much more extensively than it does currently with countries around the world; Germany and France do so very successfully."The Government's incoherent trade policy points to an ever more urgent need to give the people a ...
On his Facebook page, Vince Cable has said: There have been false rumours lately. As this statement says, I'm not stepping down anytime soon. He's linked to this article in the Independent Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable is not planning to quit the party "any time soon", party sources have said after reports he will use a September speech to announce he is stepping down. Sir Cable, who took over from Tim Farron after last year's election, is due to give a policy speech on 7 September, a week before the party gathers in Brighton for its annual conference. ...
The Independent reports that complaints to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about potential data breaches have more than doubled since General Data Protection Regulations came into force in May. Apparently, the ICO received 6,281 complaints between 25 May and 3 July this year, a 160 per cent rise on the same period in 2017: Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies can be fined €20 million (£16.5m) or 4 per cent of their worldwide turnover, significantly more than the maximum penalty of £500,000 available under the old law. Greater media attention and government advertising have boosted individuals' awareness of ...
A lot of this post is going to be a middle-aged man writing about his recently discovered enjoyment of a particular form of exercise, which you've probably seen before, so here's the conclusion: on Sunday 28th April 2019, I'm going to be running the London Marathon, to raise money for the Brain Research Trust. Please give generously to support the work they do. I'm supporting them in memory of my brother Simon, who died from a brain tumour, who I wrote about in the introduction to my John O'Groats to Land's End posts. If you'd told me a couple of ...
Next month there are planned peace talks with the Taliban ... in Moscow, with the support of China. This is a small symptom of the biggest tectonic shift in political alliances for more than 70 years. UK Liberal Democrats will be ahead of the curve if they appreciate the significance of this shift and have an opinion on the UK's response. As China reaches the point when its economy becomes the world's largest, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping is pressing ahead with his 'Belt and Road' initiative. This is the new Silk Road from China to Europe across the land ...
Venezuela's inflation appears to be set for a million per cent shortly, and their government plans to tackle it by introducing a new bitcoin-style currency (sensible), by knocking some zeros off the latest banknotes (pointless) and by a measure that seems likely to be seriously counter-productive: by increasing the minimum wage. It is hard to [...] The post Why don't politicians understand price inflation? appeared first on Radix.
From Blether Tay-Gither : Our August Blether will be tonight - Tuesday 28th August - at 7pm at The Butterfly Café, 28 Commercial Street. The Theme this month is CARING FOR THE EARTH. We will be joined by Anita Peggie, an apprentice storyteller from Fife who will be sharing some tales with us but there will be plenty opportunity for others to share their own tales. Hope to see some of you there - all welcome!
Tue 28th
06:54
Shropshire Council is consulting on restricting and doubling cost of residents' parking permits in L...
In mid-August Shropshire Council launched yet another consultation on the new parking regime. As is normal these days, the council decided not to announce the consultation, just put it on a back page of its website. The council's plans to double the cost of a resident parking permit to £100 a year. Each household will only be allowed one permit. I confess I missed this one. The consultation was slipped out on 16 August, the day I shook hands with the new owner of the former Budgens store. I told him that local artists wanted to paint a mural. He ...
