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For your and my satisfaction here is a shot of the main street in the shopping area of Livingston at 7:45am this morning. Labour were first spotted postering at 1:30 pm and the SNP have yet to put up a single poster. At this time this morning it was clearly Dundas or UKIP.

After the parish council election I removed the link to my manifesto from this blog because it was old news. However, I hear that it is still being discussed so I have restored the link in the sidebar.

I chair the Safe Exit Tower Hamlets partnership - local statutory and voluntary agencies working together with the police to enable women to get out of prostitution. We're holding a conference on 9th November to launch a handbook which lists most of the services who are active in the Borough and yesterday's meeting of our Steering Group was about planning the details. We've also developed an information sharing protocol which different agencies can sign up to. This will enable us to track people more easily so that don't just slip off the map, but more ...

This is the current status of the demolition of Pebble Mill. The BBC have moved into "the Mailbox" which is really quite a nice location for the BBC to work from as it looks over onto the Gas Street canal network. Gas Street is the location where my father pushed too hard on the tiller (which broke) and fell into the cut from a narrowboat in the 1970s. 2-2 is the result of the Birmingham City

The Liberal Democrat conference in Blackpool was dominated by one question: is Charles Kennedy continuing as leader. There was a subsidiary question about whether the party was going to be facing centre-left or centre-right but the story that dominated, the story that caught the media’s imagination was Kennedy’s leadership. What was going on? The real question should have been where is the

So that is how grown-up Government works? You produce a set of proposals designed to appease your own party rather than operate in the interests of the people of Wales. You add in a change to the electoral system for the sake of undermining the opposition and shoring up the political position of Labour AMs. And then, at the first sign of dissent, you accuse the other parties of 'kindergarten politics' and tell them it is time to grow up!So as to shore up his own position Peter Hain then adds in for good measure the possibility that the Tories ...

George Bush refused to sign the Kyoto agreement because he wanted to protect America's oil industry. With dreadful irony it is that same industry which today, as I write, is at serious risk, probably as a direct result of the global warming that he claimed was not happening. Will he now accept what the rest of the world already knows?