Gateshead Lib Dems have launched our manifesto for the local elections and have produced a short video version - click on the link above to view it.
The Nutbrook Canal ran from Shipley in Derbyshire to the Erewash Canal near Trowell. It was built to serve collieries at Shipley and West Hallam, and was completed in 1796. Competition from the railways and subsidence saw most of it was closed in 1895, but the last mile and a half remained in use until 1949. This, the first of two videos, sets out to discover what remains of the canal today.
Early April, with nominations for the District and Parish Councils closed, and a sense of hiatus, as we wait to see who our new District Councillors might be - Creeting St Peter has moved from the old Stowupland Ward to a new, two-member, Needham Market Ward. And then, a somewhat unexpected event, a planning application that impacts directly on the village core. The key roads in the village are three in number. Pound Road, which becomes Creeting Lane as it leaves the village, runs through the middle, and is our connection to the outside world in both directions - north ...
Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 547th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere ... Featuring the five most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (21-27 April, 2019), together with a hand-picked seven from the last two weeks you might otherwise have missed. Don't forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden Dozen direct to your email inbox — just click here — ensuring you never miss out on the best of Lib Dem blogging. As ever, let's start with the most popular post, and work our way down: 1. Labour's wilting ...
A cow yesterday Our Headline of the Day comes, as so often, from the Shropshire Star.
Just after Jo was on Marr this morning, Vince popped up on Pienaar's Politics. He used the opportunity to say, unsurprisingly, that a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote to stop Brexit. Finally, we have a slogan that means something and is in keeping with the zeitgeist. Once we are all sick to the back teeth of hearing it, it will just be starting to cut through to the general public, so prepare to hear it a great deal. In fact, if any Lib Dem fails to say that within 5 seconds of opening their mouth at the ...
This is the base of the bridge control cabinet which was completely destroyed in the incident. As bizarre criminal events go this is one of the oddest I have come across in a long time. Here's the take on it from Ormskirk Live:- And here's the matter as on Ormskirk Police Facebook Page:- Looking north from Rimmer's Bridge. The obvious question is why go to so much trouble to cause so much damage to a canal swing bridge out in rural West Lancashire? The bridge is accessed via Eagar Lane Lydiate or Green's Lane Downholland and I cycle over ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:So they didn't mind JB deciding for them, not in this case. They figured they could accommodate twenty-five people comfortably, or forty uncomfortably. "So make it forty," said JB, promptly, as they'd known he would, but later, back at their apartment, they wrote up a list of just twenty, and only their and Malcolm's friends, knowing that JB would invite more people than were allotted him, extending invitations to friends and friends of friends and not-even friends and colleagues and bartenders and shop clerks, until the place grew so dense with bodies that they could open ...
Congratulations to a wave of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) recently selected in Wales.
Not one but three kites spiralled, around – but not of – Easter; prospering offshoots of an earth sliced thin for easier consumption... Three red kites circling overhead, intent on every ritual of their hunt to bring hot death to prey beneath, oblivious, in our suburban gardens; As they ride a rising wave of carbon 6 – our [...]
Jo Swinson went on The Andrew Marr Show today to give an unequivocal message that a vote for the Liberal Democrats was a vote to stop Brexit. In contrast, she warned that a vote for Labour was a vote for Brexit. "A vote for Labour is a vote for #Brexit" Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Jo Swinson talks to Mishal Husain on #Marr about the European elections https://t.co/BGEwhMG2Q6 pic.twitter.com/qqYvVWSBlR — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) April 28, 2019 Watch the whole thing here from 18:42 * Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings
While I was away, I kept my eye on what was going on in the world. It was good for me to have a few days when I didn't even open my laptop to write about it, though. But now I'm back, I want to highlight some of this week's key events. One which caught my eye was the launch of the More United MPs' Network. From Politics Home: The group said MPs in the newly-established network will lead campaigns on issues such as poverty and homelessness, responsible technology, mental health and climate change. The campaign has vowed to capitalise ...
This is a song, like Barry Ryan's The Colour of My Love, that I heard in the background on Talking Pictures TV. Fireball comes, not from down-at-heel Sixties Brighton and Public Eye, but from hippy Amsterdam and Van Der Valk. It is the title track from Deep Purple's fifth album and got to 15 in the UK singles chart in 1971. This was an era, after the prime of the great Sixties groups and before glam rock choked the charts, when some quite heavy bands had hits. There is a more local musical connection with Van Der Valk. Its theme ...
With Ann Widdecombe's adoption as a candidate for the European Parliament by the Brexit party, it seems timely to give another outing for this wonderful sketch by Victoria Wood from her Christmas 2000 one-off "Victoria Wood and all the trimmings". This was well before Ann Widdecombe left politics for a career in celebrity television, most notably sweeping the floor (literally) on Strictly Come Dancing. So this was quite a prophetic work, and a piece of typically gentle genius by the much-missed Victoria Wood. * Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist. He is one of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. ...
Former Argyll and Bute MP Alan Reid is to try to win back the seat for the Liberal Democrats at the next UK general election. Mr Reid was chosen by members of the Lib Dems' constituency party as their candidate for the next Westminster poll - which is not scheduled to take place until May 2022, though as uncertainty over the country's departure from the EU persists, there remains widespread speculation that an election will be held long before that date. Mr Reid was Argyll and Bute's MP from 2001 until 2015. [Helensburgh Advertiser] Although he lost the seat in ...
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For those of us still trying to work out what Change UK stands for, yesterday's headlines, reporting on their leader's pronouncement as to what format a people's vote will take, just added to the confusion. Change UK may have no policy, no discernible ideology and no strategic and tactical sense, but surely we all knew that the ragtag group of MPs who form the core of this new alliance had come together because they rejected their previous party's stance on Brexit, and in particular the way we are drifting towards a no deal scenario. And yet now we get their ...
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Panic amongst Conservative councillors up for election next Thursday: 'We're an endangered species.....
Embed from Getty ImagesThere are some signs of panic in the ranks of Conservative councillors who are up for election next Thursday. Councillor Alan Law of West Berkshire Council wrote to the Telegraph on 23rd April: SIR - I am a member of an endangered species: a Conservative councillor standing for re-election on May 2. Harry Phibbs on Conservative Home has been regularly talking to Conservative candidates on the ground, finding considerable disquiet: ...among most of the councillors and candidates I spoke to the prevailing mood was still downcast. Seasoned campaigners were shocked by the level of anger they encountered ...
We are now half way through out get-out-the-vote weekend targeting operation in Gateshead in all the wards where we are aiming to top the poll. I have a stack of leaflets to deliver to my constituents in Whickham South and Sunniside and a load of letters to deliver in Dunston Hill and Whickham East. Order for new shoe leather will be placed when I get home later today!
I note from the Independent that Labour has arranged for MPs to vote this week on whether to declare an environmental and climate emergency following mass protests over political inaction in addressing the crisis. At the same time, the Labour administration in Cardiff Bay are on the verge of approving a billion pound plus by-pass for the M4 that will infringe on five SSSIs, add millions of tonnes of carbon emissions to our atmosphere and encourage more polluting traffic onto the road. This is despite the ground-breaking Wellbeing of Future Generations Act 2015, which charges public bodies to act in ...
I am now back from my blissful trip to the Highlands. Yesterday morning I woke up to this amazing view. We had enjoyed a week of mostly sunshine and some really hot days. Nine hours after this photo was taken, we were heading home in temperatures struggling to reach double figures and driving rain. While I was away, I went out canvassing with our top of the list in Scotland Euro candidate Sheila Ritchie in Inverness. It's great to be welcomed on to doorsteps again. Our message that a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote to stop Brexit ...
It would also of course run completely against the media habit of seeing newspapers as the daily agenda setters whose choices need reporting.
Gibbs Farm, in New Zealand, is an enormous private sculpture collection. Its most famous piece is Horizons, by Neil Dawson - and it looks like a cartoon tissue somehow painted onto the landscape.
Remember for former Liverpool – Glasgow trains from Exchange Station powering through Maghull on their way to Scotland via Ormskirk and Preston? Here's a link to a video of one from 1967*, not long before they ceased to run:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvclPkUYGek Merseyrail Class 508 EMU at Maghull Station *The video title indicates 1950's but you can hear from the commentary on this short video (and see from the livery on the coaches) that the year is 1967
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2019 Nethergate (Tay Street Lane to West Marketgait) - closed eastbound on Sunday 28 April for Street Lighting work. REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 29 APRIL 2019 Nethergate (at West Marketgait) - eastbound lane restrictions from Monday 29 April for 2 weeks for Scottish Water work. Perth Road (at Springfield) - off-peak temporary traffic lights on Tuesday 30 April for Scottish Water works.
