I booked my hotel for Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth a few days ago. And then came the news that there had been a fire at the Bournemouth International Conference Centre. Had I just been hit by bad timing? Was the conference about to be cancelled? Did I need to try to stop my hotel payment?The early indications from the bods who run conference was that any questions about whether conference
Sustainable Harborough Community is hosting an event on The Square in Market Harborough on Saturday 9 August (10am-4pm). Farmers, animals, tractors, stalls, food and ice creams will present examples of old and new approaches towards climate friendly farming in our local area. More details on the Sustainable Harborough Community website.
I was at Sunniside Social Club last night to chair a meeting of the Sunniside History Society executive. Most of the business was about the AGM (which will be held in September) and about next year's speakers. Reports were agreed though one more is still to be written. The financial report showed we almost broke even. Almost but not quite. We had a deficit of £3.50. Last year we had a surplus of
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Ed Davey: Brexit has been a disaster and Starmer must find the courage to change course
Ed Davey has a comment piece on the Guardian website this afternoon, which will presumably be in tomorrow's paper: Brexit isn't working, and the British people know it. Poll after poll, including that unveiled this weekend by More In Common for the Sunday Times, shows that people are feeling the terrible damage caused by the deal forced upon us by Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch and the rest of the Conservative party, and want something different. The latest shows less than a third of Britons would vote to leave the EU if a referendum were repeated. There's no doubt that fundamental ...
In recent months, BBC coverage of Gaza has itself become a major news story. The broadcaster attracted condemnation following the airing of a documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas agriculture minister, and the livestreaming of a Glastonbury performance in which rapper Bob Vylan led chants of "death to the IDF." Across mainstream and social media, the BBC was accused of promoting extremism. In an emergency debate in Parliament, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy called for sackings - surely an unacceptable interference in the independence of public broadcasting. The BBC issued public apologies, launched an internal review and pulled the ...
In 1968 this song, which Noel Harrison performed on the soundtrack of The Thomas Crown Affair, won the Oscar for Best Original Song. The previous year's winner of the same award was Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle, which was sung - using the term in its widest sense - by Noel's father Rex Harrison.
Just a reminder that our Tuesday surgeries today do not take place as it is during the school summer holidays. However, we can be contacted at any time on Dundee 459378 or by email at westend@dundeelibdems.org.uk - many thanks! Please note that our street surgeries on a Thursday will take place as normal. Surgeries return on Tuesday 19th August once the schools are back.
BBC Wales reports that a farm originally bought by the Welsh government using taxpayers' money for an ill-fated festival project has lost £500,000 in value. The broadcaster says that Gilestone Farm in Powys was originally bought for £4.75m but plans to help Green Man festival's owners were abandoned when ospreys started nesting there. Now, a Senedd committee report has raised "serious concerns" over how the site was acquired, and demanded a review: Then-economy minister Vaughan Gething said the government was "delighted" in early 2024 by the arrival of two nesting ospreys at Gilestone Farm. But the discovery brought an end ...
