The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald reports: A former mayor of Trowbridge who was kicked out of the Conservative Party has joined the Liberal Democrats. Cllr David Cavill was welcomed into the South West Wiltshire Lib Dem Group by the town council's leader Cllr Stewart Palmen, who said: "We would like to welcome a new councillor to the Lib Dem group. "David Cavill is a former mayor of Trowbridge and has been working to make Trowbridge better as a councillor for sometime." ... Alongside two other town councillors, Peter Fuller and Diana King, Mr Cavill resigned from the local Tory Group ...
There has been a lot of talk about the party's future approach to the EU. In a speech to Liberal Democrats in Cambridgeshire this week, Alistair Carmichael MP set out a possible route map back to full EU membership for the UK and has given us permission to reproduce his remarks. For the last quarter century Britain's relationship with her European neighbours has never been far from the centre of our political debate. For the last five years it has been absolutely dominant. Brexit may now have happened but few would be naïve enough to think that would be the ...
Sun 24th
17:06
Covid Watch: Local and national infection rates fall more but Storm Christoph may have distorted the...
This is just a quick update on the data. I'll do a more detailed analysis as soon as I can find the space. Covid-19 rates are falling in the county and across England. That's good news but there is concern that Storm Christoph will have cut the number of tests nationally and in north Shropshire. That will reduce the number of reported cases which locally are running at around 12 tests in 100 being positive. I am crunching the vaccination data. That's interesting but must wait for another article. Here are the three main graphs. They tell their own story ...
News from Bristol Liberal Democrats of their candidate for Mayor of Bristol, up for election in May 2021.
As previously noted, the next cycle of regular revisions to the Northern Ireland constituency boundaries has begun, and life for us election anoraks has been immensely sweetened by Kevin Larkin, who has uploaded all the statistics to his Boundary Assistant app. It even has a nifty function where you can add all wards currently in a particular constituency as a bloc, which is a great help. You can play this game for all parts of the UK, but obviously I am concentrating on Northern Ireland in particular. The rules are that all new constituencies must be within 5% of the ...
Let's save the HSBC bank in Yate. Sign the Petition! Posted by South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats on Friday, 22 January 2021
Sat, 12:56: Slavery statues in City of London to be removed https://t.co/kMOEXXmjpI Good. Sat, 14:48: A Remarkable Resemblance: Germany From 1900 to 1945 and China Today. Time for a NATO for Trade? | ITIF https://t.co/3qLqaYysUn Very interesting from @RobAtkinsonITIF (flagged up to me by my colleague @jamesLmcgregor). Sat, 15:00: The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius What do you do if you're the Emperor Hadrian's secretary and have a certain amount of spare time? You write a racy popular account of the lives of his predecessors as emperor of Rome. #nwbooks https://t.co/5G2AvWm14G https://t.co/4jARkjYGty https://t.co/euo9zkVL2y Sat, 15:20: The Uplift War, by David Brin ...
On 7 December 1916, the Liberal H.H. Asquith was replaced as Prime Minister by the Liberal David Lloyd George. The change followed mounting disquiet over the conduct of the First World War, and Lloyd George's demands that a small committee, not including Asquith, should direct the war effort. Lloyd George forced the issue by resigning from the coalition government. Conservative ministers sided with Lloyd George and indicated their willingness to serve in a government led by him. The resulting split in the Liberal Party persisted until the end of the war and beyond. The party fought the next two general ...
The one constant in the whole Brexit charade is how its adherents have managed to redefine irony. Thus, today we get the farcical spectacle of British businesses that export to the continent being encouraged by government trade advisers to set up separate companies inside the EU in order to get around extra charges, paperwork and taxes resulting from Brexit. According to the Observer, in an extraordinary, but not unexpected twist to the Brexit saga, UK small businesses are being told by advisers working for the Department for International Trade (DIT) that the best way to circumvent border issues and VAT ...
I remember Wreckless Eric's single The Whole Wide World from 1977, though it was never a hit in the UK. This version is to be found on the prefab four's 1987 album Pool It! Mike Naismith declined to be involved and, in an echo of band's early days, the album was largely played by session musicians, with the Monkees themselves contributing lead vocals. Here Micky Dolenz is the singer.
Sun 24th
09:36Covid Watch: Rapid vaccination rollout for all over 80s in Ludlow and south west Shropshire from Thu...
GPs have confirmed that vaccination for the over 80s will at last begin next Thursday, 28 January. We are behind in vaccination in south west Shropshire. We hope to catch up in just a few days. Residents of registered with GPs Ludlow, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Clun and Bishops Castle who are over 80 will receive letters or calls inviting them to attend the Mayfair Centre on Easthope Road in Church Stretton. Clinics are expected run 12 hours a day, including through next weekend. Discussions are underway with bus and taxi companies about transport. Those that are housebound or cannot ...
Although I come originally from a city called Lublin, in the South-East part of Poland, as a child, I spent a lot time visiting my cousins and grandparents' in relatively large village close to a city called Rzeszow. I remember Polish harvest, I remember watching my uncle, my grandmothers' brother, who used to leave the house very early in the morning and who was coming back home very late; often tired but also happy, as the job enabled him to feel closely connected with nature. Looking back, I think that farming has been always strongly rooted in the "working culture" ...
The Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) reveals that the majority of council officials are overwhelmingly concerned about their ability to hold local elections in May with more than two thirds (69%) suggesting an autumn timetable is more achievable.
i) births and deaths 24 January 1930: birth of Terence Bayler, who played Yendom, a doomed human slave, in The Ark (First Doctor, 1966) and mesmerised soldier Major Barrington in The War Games (Second Doctor, 1969). 24 January 1942: birth of Robert Sidaway, who played Avon (no relation) in The Savages (First Doctor, 1966) and Captain Turner in The Invasion (Second Doctor, 1968). 24 January 1987: birth of Ruth Bradley, who played the only Irish regular Who character in any medium, Molly O'Sullivan in Big Finish's Eight Doctor Dark Eyes audios. ii) broadcast anniversaries 24 January 1970: broadcast of fourth ...
Blether Tay-Gither is the Dundee Storytelling Group. From Sheila Kinninmonth, Blether Tay-Gither's secretary : Hope you can join us for our January Blether on Zoom Tuesday 26th January - 7pm to 9pm With a nod to the bard and legend Robert Burns, our theme is poetry. Many stories were once told in poetry form by the bards of old, as many were sung as ballads. Bring a poem this month or a story about poetry, or a story that includes a poem. Or a story that is a poem, or perhaps a poem that has a story. Or just come ...
