The old Leicester firm of Imperial Typewriters has cropped up on Liberal England before. I came across its impressive old factory in 2013 and last year I went to an exhibition about the 1974 strike that helped bring about its demise. Click on the still to the right and you will be taken to the Media Archive for Central England site and an ATV report from 1975 about redundancies and attempts to keep the factory open. That still shows the leader of the action group formed to try to save the factory. Unexpectedly, he turns out to be Roger Blackmore, ...
Liberal Democrats: PM's speech no more than a pipe dream Responding to Boris Johnson's speech to Conservative Party Conference, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said: The Prime Minister's speech utterly failed to deliver a credible plan to beat Coronavirus. With the Government's tracing system in meltdown, a quarter of the UK in lockdown and millions set to face unemployment, this speech was nothing more than a pipe dream. People and business need not only reassurance from the Prime Minister, but concrete measures to help them face the next six months of this pandemic. They got neither. Even when ...
Wed 7th
19:57
The bridge over the Trent that allowed horses to cross between the Nottingham and Grantham Canals
The old horse bridge used to cross the River Trent and link the Nottingham and Grantham Canals pic.twitter.com/twBRZZzY7I — RailwayManiac (@LeeElkWright) October 6, 2020 One day in 2018 I discovered the entrances to the still navigable Nottingham Canal and the derelict Grantham Canal almost opposite one another on the banks of the Trent. What I learnt yesterday is that there used to be a wooden bridge over the river here to allow horses hauling narrow boats to cross from one canal to the other. It was swept away in the floods of 1875, but you can see it in the ...
Second frame of third section of Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back: Second frame of third section of Chronin Volume 2: The Sword in Your Hand: This two-volume graphic novel was in this year's Hugo voter packet, but I've only now got around to reading it. It's an interesting story of Japan just before the Meiji Restoration, with a woman from 2042 masquerading as a samurai and a time-travel screw-up potentially erasing our version of history. The plot is intriguing enough, and has some good gender-bending twists, but I'm afraid I found the art (also by the author) ...
The Low Fell Focus Team yesterday published their latest eFocus newsletter. Issues covered include:Anderson Green housing application: the latest information Reports of dog mess increasingTougher Covid restrictions for GatesheadPolice issue warning about vehicle break in'sImproving the area around Grace College, Saltwell Road SouthA new secondary school for GatesheadNew bin at Cross Keys
This is so sad. The TES reports a finding from a new initiative from the Association of School and College Leaders that pools data from across schools to allow trends to be discerned: Duncan Baldwin, deputy policy director of ASCL, outlined one trend that was identified when groups of schools pooled their attendance data. "We were looking at disadvantaged pupils particularly, and there was this dip on 14 December in several of the schools", he said. "We were looking at each other, saying 'what's special on 14 December? No idea'. "Look on Google and, lo-and-behold, it's Christmas Jumper Day. "What ...
PRESS RELEASE: Unlock Democracy is pleased to announce Tom Brake as their new Director. Tom was until recently the MP for Carshalton and Wallington. Tom brings a wealth of campaigning experience to the role from his years in Parliament. In Westminster he was active in pushing for democratic reform, including extending Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to private companies like Serco and Capita when they undertake work for the public sector, defending UK elections from foreign interference, and for votes at 16. Tom leads the organisation at a time when the UK's democracy and political institutions are under strain from: ...
Tue, 12:24: RT @Fiona_Forde_Irl: Died #OnThisDay 1891 Politician #CharlesStewartParnell just 3 mths after his marriage to Katherine O'Shea. An Account... Tue, 12:30: RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to... Tue, 12:56: Well, that was fun! https://t.co/BuqYivxxn0 Tue, 15:06: Just reflecting that there are 6 Nobel Prize winners younger than me. Adam Riess (Physics 2011) b. 1969 Leymah Gbowee (Peace 2011) b. 1972 Abiy Ahmed (Peace 2019) b. 1976 Tawakkol Karman (Peace 2011) b. 1979 Nadia Murad (Peace 2018) b. 1993 Malala Yousafzai (Peace 2017) ...
I made the mistake recently of allowing Windows to update the operating system. Immediately after updating the operating system Chrome stopped logging in automatically (the bit on the top right of Chrome said "paused"). This has happened to quite a few people so I looked up to find out solutions one place that has solutions is https://9to5google.com/2020/06/15/
Yet more falsehoods from the 2016 referendum have been laid to rest this morning, namely that leaving the EU will be painless and save us money, with this report in the Guardian that the government's reliance on management consultants has led to spending with the eight top firms rising by 45% to more than £450m in three years. They say that Deloitte, the professional services firm, was the biggest winner, earning fees of £147m from public funds in 2019-20, compared with £40m two years earlier, amid a bonanza related in large part to Brexit. The Home Office had the biggest ...
The Party has a proud record of taking the lead in Parliament on socially liberal issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, and we should be doing the same on assisted dying. It is now eight years since Conference passed a motion in favour of this, but I have seen no sign of any follow-up action. Ed Davey, our new Leader, has made great play with the need to listen to the public and act on their concerns. Well, assisted dying is a case in point. The public's support for changing the law to permit assisted dying has been rising steadily, ...
Wed 7th
08:30
Whoniversaries 7 October: Abominable Snowmen #2, Pirate Planet #2, The Woman Who Fell to Earth
i) births and deaths 7 October 1980: birth of Mike Bartlett, writer of the 2017 Twelfth Doctor story Knock Knock. ii) broadcast anniversaries 7 October 1967: broadcast of second episode of The Abominable Snowmen. The Doctor persuades the monks and Travers that he does not control the Yeti; but the control sphere that they have acquired comes to life... 7 October 1978: broadcast of second episode of The Pirate Planet. The Doctor and Romana realise the true nature of Xanak, ie that it is in fact a pirate planet. 7 October 2018: broadcast of The Woman Who Fell to Earth, ...
I'm a regular almost daily cyclist for fitness, shopping, and local visits for whatever within a few miles of where I live – Lydiate, Merseyside. You may therefore be surprised that I have some negative things to say about some of my fellow cyclists who use pavements to get around rather than being on the road where they belong. To me cycling on a pavement is dangerous for pedestrians especially when bike riders all but creep up on them from behind without even announcing they're there as it's uncool to have and to use a bell. It's bad enough cyclists ...
West End Community Council is calling for nominations for new Community Councillors as there are spaces to fill. West End Community Council has space for up to 10 more Community Councillors. In order to fill these spaces, there will be a recruitment period known formally as an 'election' where we call for nominations to join the Community Council. Community Councils play an important role in the local West End community and are an important link between the community and public bodies. It is important to note that West End Community Council's boundary does not cover the whole of the West ...
Shropshire Homes has planning permission to build nearly 80 homes in the former quarry on Fishmore Road. The development will be called Quarry Place. Most of the homes will be grouped around a cul de sac. Shropshire Council is seeking views from councillors on naming the road. One obvious answer is that it is called Quarry Place. But we could propose another name. I'd like to hear your suggestions before sending a selection to Shropshire Council later in the month. Some modifications have been made to the scheme but the layout is as shown above There have been different fashions ...
