Law Centre closures show legal aid cuts have gone too far Lib Dems: Honouring Turing 'a painful reminder' US trade deal delay more evidence of Brexit false promises Home Office accused of deliberately lying to deport slavery victims Law Centre closures show legal aid cuts have gone too far Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson Jonathan Marks QC has called on the Conservative Government to reverse £500 million of legal aid cuts, as new figures showing that the number of legal advice centres has halved since 2014. The figures, reported by the Guardian today, show that the number of Law Centres in ...
Janet Grauberg, a volunteer with the Camden Liberal Democrats local party, hosted a "Tea & Telephoning" session calling postal voters in Brecon and Radnorshire last weekend.
This photograph of the Square under water in 1959 has turned up on GettyImages. I particularly like the road signs. The half-timbered building behind them was still there when I moved to the town in 1973, but was demolished soon afterwards.
Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County Council have put up £10,000 each towards the cost of an investigation of the feasibility of reopening the railway from Leicester to Coalville, Ashby and Burton upon Trent to passengers, The leaders of the two councils are now calling on Derbyshire, Staffordshire and the borough and district council along the route to find the rest of the £60,000 the survey will cost. The Leicester Mercury quotes the city's mayor Sir Peter Soulsby: "The line is probably the line in the country with the best prospects of being re-opened for passengers. "Were it to ever ...
Mon 15th
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Street artists get inspired in Ludlow but when is graffiti art and not vandalism or criminal damage?...
"Love Ludlow." That's the message as you walk under the railway between Sheet Road and Sandpits. A more recent expression of artistic talent on Market Square is "I'm making a call". Should you want to see a female 'brother' - drop down to Friars Walk. All these illegal artworks send messages. All are graffiti. All could be described as vandalism or even criminal damage. But aren't they are art? Don't they brighten up our town? Do they create talking points? Let me know you views. These are not the only examples of graffiti around the town of late. Images on ...
Third paragraph:Elsewhere the ridges around me are wooded, alive with scarlets and brasses and bronzes. The sky is huge, the westering sun wanbright. The valley is filling with a deeper blue, a haze whose slight smokiness touches my nostrils. This is Indian summer, the funeral pyre of the year.I wrote about this story back in 2004:"Goat Song" is at first sight a retelling of the Orpheus myth (the title is a literal translation of the Greek phrase which became the English word "tragedy"). The narrator is a singer of old songs from Earth's distant past; his lover has died; the ...
Barry. Barry John if he was being told off by his mother, Dad to me and my brother Mark, Grandad to Fred and Zoë, or Barry the Boffin if you were a 1960s journalist. Dad was born in February 1933 in Basingstoke, in the fabulously named Tally Ho Lodge. He was the son of Arthur, [...]
Responding to the reports that Liam Fox has admitted that a post-Brexit trade arrangement with the US may take longer to agree than previously hoped, Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson Tom Brake said:"Fox's comments underline the scale of the inaccuracies spouted by the Leave campaign. Boris Johnson and the Tories had promised us that the UK would have a host of trade deals in place by Brexit day. We won't."This should also serve as a reminder that the EU will always be the natural and easiest trading partner for the UK - as shown by the bureaucratic difficulties linked to settling ...
It is polling day on Thursday for the Northumbria Police Commissioner by-election. So here is my election leaflet, featuring mainly the cost of this totally unnecessary election (£2.5 million), the fact that the PCC system is a failure and the need to boost community policing.
It's not been a good week for British politics has it?! Our Ambassador to the USA was forced to resign because Johnson wouldn't publicly support him for doing the job we paid him to do. Labour anti-Semitism was exposed in great detail on the Panorama Programme with a response from Labour that attacked the messenger and tried to excuse their behaviour by saying that the Tories are just as bad. The Tory Leadership contenders have been exposed as either liars or fools. Then there was the Brexit MEP who thought we should do a 'Belgrano' and sink foreign shipping craft ...
The annual 'Open Day' of the Eden Gardens Allotments takes place on 28th July (starts 12 noon). This is just over the motorway off Derwent Avenue in Whitefield. Lots of fun and games for the kids including Lucky Dip, Pot Painting, Making Lava Lamps, Face Painting, a Fire Engine, Crafting in wood with a Bodger and much, much more. Lots of fun and games for adults too with fabulous prizes to be won.Come and have a health check courtesy of the albert Place Pharmacy. Jams and Chutneys for sale. A BBQ and Cafe selling home made cakes and hot and ...
A partnership between health commissioners, hospital, community and GP services in Bury has been announced as one of 10 North-West champions for the prestigious NHS Parliamentary Awards, which celebrate outstanding health and care staff. Bury Integrated Community Cardiology Pilot is a partnership between Bury Clinical Commissioning Group, Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation (part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group) and Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and was named the North-West winner of the Excellence in Health Care Award. Bury's community cardiology service model was developed in partnership to improve access and outcomes for patients with a range of cardiovascular ...
Every July we support the Samaritan's campaign to raise awareness of their services to help people who are thinking about killing themselves. One of the campaigns the Samaritans are running this year is "Small Talk Saves Lives", a campaign around lives lost on railways. For every life lost on the railways, six are saved by the people around them. More information on what you can do here. Anyone can contact the Samaritans 116 123 which is open all the time. More information on the Samaritans, including how to volunteer and make a donation, here.
Sun, 12:56: RT @jenniferdoleac: Reminder to academics who say no to media requests because they don't know absolutely everything about the topic: The n... Sun, 14:48: RT @BorderIrish: https://t.co/WjqBmf8ZDx Sun, 15:10: The Whyte family connection with the Bastille https://t.co/T2cRL5cjIq Sun, 20:48: Vatican hunt for Emanuela Orlandi uncovers two sets of bones https://t.co/3aXDm54e4a Wow. The plot thickens. Sun, 22:39: Context: "What's the worst career advice you've ever received?" https://t.co/5RABcpTgsa Mon, 08:52: 'Meritocrat v toff': Johnson's losing battle for the Oxford Union https://t.co/EITLGCDyKS Neil Sherlock speaks. Mon, 10:45: Hundreds of Kate Bush lookalikes do Wuthering Heights in Dublin park https://t.co/W2iMke6whm Ireland is ...
My attention has been drawn to the Newcastle Journal's letters' column from 11th July 2019. C Jackson (CJ) of Kenton, Newcastle, wrote about the PCC by-election candidates. CJ had lots of praise for Vera Baird whose resignation has sparked this contest and suggested the four candidates do not have the level of experience of Ms Baird. But, he did write: "it's patently obvious only one of them
On Saturday, Chase Park hosted a "Love Parks" event. I was there with a couple of our goat kids and 4 ducklings to promote the cause of self-sufficiency and sustainable living. Alas, the weather was against us. When it turned midday, it tipped down.
Mon 15th
09:00
Yate Outdoor Sports Complex (YOSC) athletics improvements open, astroturf project starting
Yate Town Council has announced that the refurbished and enhanced track and athletics facilities at Yate Outdoor Sports Complex (YOSC) are now open for business. Local athletes can resume use of the now greatly enhanced facilities. Councillor Chris Willmore, Chair of the Project Steering Group commented: "We are delighted that local athletes now have access to a completely upgraded facility that will last another 25 years, and give disabled athletes, Brimsham Green School pupils and athletes of all ages international quality facilities." The first community event to take place at YOSC on the track was the annual Relay for Life ...
A visit to Merseyside Transport Trust's open day in Burscough yesterday and what should I spot but a heritage bus in Ribble/North Western livery numbered for the now lost and much missed 311 route which ran from Liverpool through to Ormskirk taking in the Old Roan, Maghull and Lydiate. It brought back memories of the campaign and petition to try to stop Arriva abandoning the route back in 2015. Here's a link back to my postings about the matter back then:- Four years on since the bus was withdrawn and Lydiate residents without access to a car are still ...
The Guardian reports that the government is to set out plans to resuscitate the UK's struggling nuclear ambitions with a new scheme which would leave taxpayers liable for rising costs or delays. They say that the funding model, expected this week, could help bankroll the multibillion pound plans for a follow-on to EDF Energy's Hinkley Point C project in Somerset, which ministers aim to build at the Sizewell site in Suffolk. It could also resurrect the dormant plans for a £16bn new nuclear reactor at the Wylfa project in North Wales, which fell apart last year due to the high ...
The political world has changed and it is hard - not just practically, but emotionally – to keep up. Last week, I pulled off my shelf a book of counterfactuals by Iain Dale and Duncan Brack. It is entitled Prime Minister Boris and others things that never happened. Written in 2011, the relevant chapter runs [...] The post Prime Minister Swinson and other things that never happened appeared first on Radix.
The Coats n Quilts charity helps older people who struggle to stay warm, particularly during the winter months, through donations of coats and quilts. For more information, see the Coats n Quilts flyer here.
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This one is on "Be-Bop-A-Lula" by Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps, and features a motorbike crash, a car crash, Fidel Castro, and probably ... Continue reading →
