Camden Liberal Democrats have announced that Flick Rea is standing down as a councillor: With heartfelt gratitude for her incredible 35 years of service, Flick Rea will be stepping down as Liberal Democrat councillor for Fortune Green ward. Flick has been a tireless champion for the people of Camden and will continue to be a driving force in the Lib Dems. We are grateful for her years of service and her continued leadership. There will now be a by-election for the Fortune Green seat. We're delighted to announce Nancy Jirira as our candidate. Nancy is a well-known NHS nurse and ...
Camden's longest serving Lib Dem Councillor Flick Rea has decided to step down. Flick, who was elected 35 years ago, is now in her 80s and her decision to resign as a councillor was in part motivated by the Government's insistence that local Government resumes in-person meetings. Camden Lib Dems celebrated her time at the Council on Twitter: With heartfelt gratitude for her incredible 35 years of service, @FlickRea will be stepping down as Liberal Democrat councillor for Fortune Green ward. Flick has been a tireless champion for the people of Camden and will continue to be a driving force ...
If peace negotiations collapse and the Taliban take power in Afghanistan, the UK and Europe may well be faced again with another wave of mass migration (are we really going to turn away women and their families at deadly risk from the Taliban?), a strengthened base for the export of terrorism (Taliban have not broken links with Al Qaeda, CIA reckons even US at risk again within three years) and continued supply of opium to European youth from the largest producer in the world. Dr Abdullah Abdullah, a figure well-known in the UK who is the Afghan Government's chief negotiator ...
Fri, 12:47: RT @nicktolhurst: +UPDATE+ EU & UK agree a new amended fishing deal. The deal that mainly covers fishing grounds in North Sea up to the en... Fri, 12:56: RT @DaveKeating: 🙄 A reminder, for anyone who needs it, that this is in fact *non-EU red tape*. The red tape that comes from leaving the E... Fri, 15:42: I am quoted by @PoliticoRyan in today's @POLITICO Global Translations newsletter. (Of course, my comment may just reflect who I happen to know in the current US administration!) https://t.co/yCiy9dc3uu https://t.co/Plc97r30Kj Fri, 16:05: RT @l_oc81: Most Fermanagh headline ever - 'Fermanagh woman's ...
The Guardian reports that GP practices in England have been instructed to hand over their patients' entire medical histories with just six weeks' notice. Writing in the paper, Ameen Kamlana, a GP in east London and an NHS activist, says he is very concerned about the implications this has for his patients and, with other doctors in London,has., taken taken the decision to refuse to hand over patient records: This data grab is unwarranted, unparalleled in its scale and implications and quite possibly unlawful. Yet NHS Digital, acting at the government's request, has downplayed the significance of the move. There ...
In this week's look at world news, LDV's foreign affairs editor Tom Arms reviews the situation in Israel where Netanyahu looks set to be ousted by a coalition held together, for now at least, by their opposition to the country's leader of 12 years. Cornwall will host the G7 summit later this week. Boris Johnson could join his peers having been defeated in the Commons over cuts to overseas aid. Coronavirus, climate change and promotion of green industries are on the agenda. Finance ministers are expected to agree a base rate for corporation tax today but it is not necessarily ...
i) births and deaths 5 June 1908: birth of Bill Fraser, who played General Grugger in Meglos (Fourth Doctor, 1980) and Bill Pollock in K9 and Company. 5 June 1917: birth of Anne Tirard, who played Locusta the poisoner in the story we now call The Romans (First Doctor, 1965) and the Seeker in The Ribos Operation (Fourth Doctor, 1978). 5 June 1919: birth of Laurence Payne, who played Johnny Ringo in the story we now call The Gunfighters (First Doctor, 1966), Morix in The Leisure Hive (Fourth Doctor, 1980), and Dastari in The Two Doctors (Sixth and Second Doctors, ...
Wimbledon is the Party's closest target seat in England , with a Tory majority of just 628 and the Merton Party are now looking for a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate to win it at the next General Election. It needs a swing of just 0.6% to turn Wimbledon orange. Could you be the candidate that turns another London constituency orange? The excellent result in the General Election was the result of years of campaigning by the local party and came after five gains at the elections in May 2018 and the first by-election gain from Labour in London for a decade ...
A number of residents have said it would be a great boon for Lochee Park to have a multi-use games area (MUGA). These are now provided in various locations in the city and would be of real benefit in Lochee Park. I therefore took up the matter with environment management at the City Council and indeed raised it at the council's Neighbourhood Services Committee. The Service Manager - Environment has updated me as follows : "While in agreement that the addition of a MUGA would potentially be an asset to Lochee Park, we do not have capital monies available to ...
Geoff Marshall explains on YouTube Here we're walking the path of the line old that used to exist between Mill Hill East and Edgware, with 'Mill Hill (The Hale)' station abandoned along the way.
