Embed from Getty ImagesThe Inland Waterways Association was formed in 1946, but it was not until the 1950 Festival of Boats and Arts, held in Market Harborough, that the campaign to save the inland waterways really became established as a national crusade. The festival is generally thought to be the tipping point of the waterways revival, triggering the mass-participation on a volunteering spirit which is still unique in the world. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of that event, a festival will be held at Foxton in Leicestershire on Saturday 7 June and Sunday 8 June. Market Harborough canal basin is ...
Remember Chris Twells? He was the Liberal Democrat who got himself elected to represent wards in Salford and the Cotswolds at the same time. As a result, his party membership was suspended, though one distinguished parliamentarian spoke up for him: Lord Bonkers comments: "Win one seat and you're a hero: win two and everyone complains."https://t.co/Pauumqex7O — Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) May 13, 2023Well, the Falmouth Packet appears to have discovered him standing, under the name Chris Green, as an Independent in Truro's Boscawen and Redannick ward in the Cornwall Council election on 1 May. As he tells the paper in his ...
Mark Howson owes a great deal to Harborough FM. When Diane and I moved to Market Harborough in 2008 I had a low opinion of local radio, dismissing it out of hand as amateurish and thus never listening to it. I mostly listened to Krautrock and electronic music back then, so even my BBC consumption was limited to Radio 4 and occasionally 6Music. One of my musical heroes at the time was a German fellow by the name of Manuel Göttsching, who was a legend of the Kosmische genre. One day, about a decade ago, I was perusing his website ...
[IMG: Official portrait of Christine Jardine @HouseofCommons/Roger Harris] Lib Dem Women and Equalities Spokesperson Christine Jardine has written to Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson to ask for an urgent meeting to address the implications for the LGBTQ+ community in the wake of this week's Supreme Court judgement. On social media, Christine said: I am increasingly disappointed that the concerns of the #LGBTQ+ community over what the Supreme Court judgement means for them are not yet being addressed. I have written to the Government asking them to make clear how trans and non binary rights will be protected. In her ...
As the shockwave of Wednesday's bombshell Supreme Court decision has landed, we are now seeing the rapid erosion of some civil liberties in the UK. Although the court's decision itself ruled on a fairly narrow part of Equalities Law, we are now seeing huge confusion as people pore over the full implications of the ruling and some seem to capitalise to restrict the rights of trans people, without regard of the side effects on the wider LGBT community, or women. We have now seen initial responses from people like the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner, ...
While the devastation of Gaza dominates the headlines, Israeli settlers have been ramping up violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and stealing ever more of their land. The illegal settlement project has long been recognised as undermining the viability of a Palestinian state and as an impediment to peace. Lib Dem MPs have rightly spoken out in favour not just of a lasting ceasefire but of a sustainable way out of this crisis for both peoples. But as we try to find a way to a better future, we need to take another look at what is happening in ...
After a good night's sleep, and with my ability to speak somewhat restored, it was time to catch the Frecciarossa to my next destination, somewhere I had fleetingly visited twice a couple of years ago, Rimini. Previously, it had been the jumping off point for my journey to San Marino, but this time, I had a hotel room booked. It's six hours from Lecce, but the surroundings (and a couple of glasses of free Prosecco) were perfectly charming. This is the peak of Italian rail travel, with leather seats and bags of space. But, whilst I'm sure that there are ...
Only the two principal authority council by-elections this week, but that is enough to serve up a pair of Liberal Democrat gains: [IMG: Hannah Butler campaign graphic] Colgate & Rusper (Horsham) Council By-Election Result: [IMG: 🔶] LDM: 30.3% (-0.3) [IMG: 🌳] CON: 27.2% (-15.8) [IMG: 🌍] GRN: 21.5% (+12.6) [IMG: ➡] RFM: 13.8% (New) [IMG: 🌹] LAB: 3.5% (-10.4)Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.Changes w/ 2023. — Election Maps UK (@electionmaps.uk) 2025-04-17T23:52:26.188Z
There's an Easter Family Fun Day tomorrow - Saturday 19th April - at Lochee Park from 12 noon to 5pm. The free event will include live entertainment, funfair, street soccer, refreshments, Easter eggs, face painting, Scrap Antics, Poppy's Bubbles and much more. More details are available at www.facebook.com/events/1171252881175904
As if it wasnt bad enough that Labour Ministers have kicked social care reform into the long grass, the Guardian reports that even the morsel of comfort the government has thrown in the direction of progress is fairly worthless. The paper says that crucial cross-party talks aimed at building political consensus for large-scale changes to adult social care have failed to get off the ground with Liberal Democrats saying that not a single all-party meeting on the issue had taken place in the four months since the government announced ambitious plans to build a national care service to fix the ...
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