All you Snailbeach fans out there are in for a treat. Remember 1946 and the plan for this former lead-mining village to be moved to a new site? I know why it didn't take place. So do you because of the headline, but let's start with a letter in the Shrewsbury Chronicle (18 January 1946) from F.H. Edwards of Snailbeach: Housing at Snailbeach I would like to congratulate Mr. William Humphrey for the way he is putting the most serious housing problem to the Clun R.D.C. No wonder the chairman, Mr. J. Norton, wants a move in this housing business. ...
Peter Chambers doesn't want any Barney Rubble as he looks forward to owning some television history. tl;dr - Series One of The Sweeney is shortly to be released on Blu-Ray. More - Initially in 4:3 with original ad-breaks, later in 16:9 continuous, somehow. Any mention of the 2012 shambles- Shut it! To describe The Sweeney as iconic would be a damp British understatement. It drew a line under what had gone before - Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, and Softly Softly - and then threw the book away. It did this using a small team of 'guerilla film-makers' at Euston ...
I learnt this afternoon that David Boyle, the author, thinker and former editor of Liberal Democrat News, died suddenly yesterday. My happiest memory of him is at the Alternative Summit that took place alongside the G8 Summit in Birmingham in May 1998. This was so long ago that the Alternative Summit produced, not a Bluesky account, but a daily printed newspaper. David was the editor, and he asked me to come to Birmingham to write a column for him each day. I remember him being in his element as he dealt patiently with crises and contributors, and ordered taxis, only ...
Tall and statuesque. Dressed to stun in black thigh boots and nylon sheer. No longer young, with long grey hair and pale blue eyes that see into your life, whether urbane or raw A husky voice that breathes allure No secret will be out of reach if you succumb. But when you know what lies beneath, and understand, once you have sucked forbidden juice only salt can ever sate you
It was a huge shock to wake up to the awful news that former Lib Dem News Editor David Boyle died suddenly yesterday. David was one of the foremost thinkers in the party. He contributed much to the debates in this party, often on the pages of this site. And when he sent a piece in, he was always really humble about it. "Might you have time for this?' he'd say. I mean, his writing was always so thoughtful, relevant and intrinsically liberal. There was never any way we were going to turn down his contributions. On his website, he ...
Trump's metaphorical coin-tossing decision-making over the bombing of Iran is the clear result of imperial over-reach cloaked in dangerous isolationism. But whichever way the president decides, the fact that he has to sit in the Oval Office with a handful of yes men and women underscores the fragility of American foreign policy and the rapid decline of a great power. Previous post-war presidents could rely on an elaborate and carefully constructed network of alliances, treaties and international laws to help with the decision-making. The decisions were not always right. But if they were wrong the burden of the blame could ...
All are welcome at the Corso Street Complex Strawberry Tea next Thursday - 26th June - at 2.30pm! The complex is at 37 Blackness Avenue, lying in the path from Blackness Avenue up to Abbotsford Street.
