In 2014 the Monastery in Conduit Hill, Rye, was up for sale. The Rye & Battle Observer told us: The Monastery building was once ear-marked as potential site for a new theatre by the Fletcher Group but the Group is now set to open a new two screen cinema in the former Further Education Centre in Lion Street later this year. ... In 1903, the then Vicar of Rye, the Rev. Howes, interested himself in the chapel building, and proposed its conversion into a Church House. It had been the Salvation Army Barracks for some time. During the last war ...
Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (gedditt!!???!!) reported back in March: A new spycop has been named - Special Demonstration Squad officer 'Michael Scott' infiltrated the Young Liberals, Anti-Apartheid Movement, and Workers Revolutionary Party, 1971-76.It's hard not to feel nostalgic for the days when the secret state thought the Liberal Party worth keeping under surveillance.
I filmed this video just before and just after a seminar for Gateshead councillors about the Gateshead Millennium Study, a research project that followed 1000 people born in 1999/2000 until they turned 18. There was quite a concentration during the presentation on the issue of obesity, which affected children from all income groups, though it was higher among children from the lowest income
"Brexit has been a sobering experience for believers in Britain's constitutional arrangements. While in principle we have parliamentary sovereignty, in practice we have an over-powerful executive." Alexandra Runswick on how 'the will of the people' shattered our constitution. Sam Knight explains how the Conservatives bankrupted Northamptonshire: "The plan ... involved cutting the number of staff directly employed by the county from four thousand to a hundred and fifty. At the same time, officials set up a number of external companies to look after the county's old people and neglected children. The companies would, in theory, turn a profit. The project ...
Second paragraph of third chapter of "The Badblood Diaries", by Mags L. Halliday: Yes, I know, I know. She'll see all of this once we get back home. By then I'm sure we'll have become fast friends who will laugh over such foolish first impressions and recount them at each other's weddings or some such. I hope. Second paragraph of third-ish (depending how you count) chapter of "Possum Kingdom", by Kelly Hale: He could just make out the sea, a flash of white and gold in the setting sun. And stretching towards it was now a landscape made of flesh, ...
[IMG: Princes Parade] There is a Folkestone and Hythe District Council cabinet meeting being held on 12th December at 5pm where the Princes Parade business case will be discussed. The council have given notice that they intend to exclude the public for at least part of the meeting: the Save Princes Parade committee will be challenging that decision on your behalf. On the fundraising front the next event will be 'Party for the Parade' on 30th November at The Fountain, Seabrook from 8pm. The event is being hosted by Jack Pound of The Rattlaz who are the headline act for ...
There were four seats up for grabs this week in what was a tricky week for the party. Lib Dem candidates stood in all four elections however faced some tough tests in relatively safe seats. We'd like to thank our candidates Nigel Bakhai, Lesley Rideout, Christopher Styles-Power and Robert Thurston for all their hard work campaigning and for representing the party in some difficult battles. Ealing LB, Dormers Wells Lab 1868 [72.1%; +2.9%] Con 429 [16.6%; +0.7%] LD Nigel Bakhai 188 [7.3%; +2.7%] Green 106 [4.1%; -3.2%] Turnout 26% Lab Hold Percentage change from 2018 Harlow DC, Bush Fair Labour ...
[IMG: A yummy Malaysian dish for the weekend] Char Koay Teow is a fried vermicelli dish which hails from the beach town of Penang in Malaysia. The dish was often fried over a charcoal fire as seen in the street markets of Asia generally.... The post A yummy Malaysian dish for the weekend appeared first on FeministMama.
Women have always played a significant role in the life of our villages, towns and cities. The shame is, that their role is largely forgotten and consigned to history. As a Liverpool councillor, I had the opportunity to redress the balance a little and give ordinary women, who had made a real difference, both a face and a place in our lives. In Liverpool, the Blitz Memorial Statue depicted a woman and a child. It was based on the true story of a survivor of the Durning Road shelter bombing in the Blitz. Women worked in munitions factories, as nurses, ...
Fri 9th
11:16
An article in which I attempt, as best as possible, to summarise the current state of play
All week I have had at the back of my mind the idea of writing something about where we are – on Brexit, on everything in UK politics at the moment – without really knowing what to say. Everything comes down to "the deal" – which is not, amazingly enough, going to be a deal at all, but rather the vague outline of a possible, future deal, with the actual legal commitments entered into being to formalise what happens along the way if that deal doesn't happen, or at least takes longer than expected. Anyhow, "the deal" is expected to ...
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Thu, 12:02: Juncker describes the period just before he became President of the Commission as "the last happy period of my life". #EPPCongress Thu, 12:14: Merkel starts her speech by reminding us that 100 years ago this week, Germany was negotiating with France for an a... https://t.co/TusskovJwO Thu, 12:25: RT @a_maehl: Do you picture him kissing the Belgian PM on the forehead? Do you imagine him being bluntly honest about the miserable job it... Thu, 12:35: Yeah, I know. https://t.co/lNvtVu3Jgt Thu, 12:40: #EPPCongress results 621 total, 619 valid: @ManfredWeber 492 @alexstubb 127. Both sides thought 75/25 most likely o... https://t.co/OkssxX9440 ...
Brexit deadlines come and go. Agreements are nearly achieved, but 95 per cent ready is 0 per cent agreed, as both sides are keen to remind us. However, it does now seem that as we approach Christmas and an apparent timeline cut-off point for some sort of Brexit political agreement (the trade agreement will take [...] The post Last chance saloon for the Brexit hard right? appeared first on Radix.
Jo Swinson's Equal Power was one of my best reads of this year. I have now bought or won four copies of the thing – one on my Kindle, one real one and two to give away. Last weekend, I spent a small fortune on yet another at the Edinburgh West dinner. It is a book that everyone should read. It's not just a book, it's an action plan. Jo is never one to underestimate anyone's capacity for work, so she shows us how we can be the change we want to see. So I'm chuffed to see that Equal ...
Who knew that Britain is made up of islands? Or that our closest point to a huge trading bloc might be really quite important?
A fellow cyclist recently raised this junction with me as they were concerned that the detection wires under the tarmac on the Coronation Road side of the junction may not be picking up approaching cycles. Oddly a similar thought had crossed my mind a while back as I had an encounter with these traffic lights where they did not change to green when I expected them to. I had all but forgotten about this incident but when approached it came back to mind. The resident has raised their concerns with Sefton Council Highway Dept. and shared the exchanges with me. ...
In the wake of the victory in the House of Representatives, Democrats are preparing to hurl stones at President Trump. The Donald—flushed with Senate victory– has responded by setting loose a pre-emptive avalanche. The cheers had yet to subside when presumptive Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that Democratic victory in the lower house meant the restoration of legislative oversight and the constitutional system of checks, balances. In practical terms this means the House withholding funds for Trump's wall and immigration programmes and launching corruption investigations into cabinet members. Of course, there is also the number one target—Trump and ...
I am not a great fan of Christmas adverts, especially when they are aired in November, but this is the Iceland one, which according to the Guardian, has been banned for being too political. The paper says that as part of the retailer's festive campaign they struck a deal with Greenpeace to rebadge an animated short film featuring an orangutan and the destruction of its rainforest habitat at the hands of palm oil growers. Earlier this year, Iceland became the first major UK supermarket to pledge to remove palm oil from all its own-brand foods. Habitat loss in countries such ...
Fri 9th
06:22
Shropshire in crisis: Friday "lock outs" of staff and customers as council runs out of cash
Shropshire Council can longer afford to operate normally. It is running fast towards becoming a basket case like Northamptonshire. The chief executive has been asked by the cabinet to implement a spending freeze across the council with immediate effect. This will mean "Environment Days", when staff will work from home on Fridays and "Lock Outs" when all council offices will be shut down at noon on Fridays. The political spin on the announcement to lock staff and customers out of the council on Fridays cannot hide a growing crisis in council finances. From November, the council will no longer have ...
Many residents have recently reported to me extensive flooding frequently around the bus stop on Perth Road opposite Riverside Place. I highlighted this with an initial response from the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership at the end of last month. I have now had a more substantive response from the Roads Maintenance Partnership's engineer who has been investigating the matter - this reads as follows : "I have been on site ... with a colleague from Tayside Contracts and we are proposing to dig up and investigate the slow running gully at the bus stop. We are also planning on installing ...
