Professor Mike Weed, quoted in a Department of Health press release: In particular, evidence suggests that elite sport rarely motivates physical activity take-up among non-participants and the least active.
USB memory sticks are normally touted as being small and convenient, despite not being so at all. Most are quite large. This one, however, is just half the size of an SD card and easily fits in your wallet. And if The Man is breaking down your door, it's small enough to swallow. It's definitely worth paying a bit extra for something this small.
I have recently replaced all the external drives on my file server. Previously I was using four Lacie 1TB jobbies (each of which was really four 250GB disks internally), but wanted to replace them because they're noisy and draw a lot of power. So I ended up with two Western Digital Mybook Studio II 2TB devices, which I've been using for 3 months (one of them) and one and a half months (the other).I've got the same amount of storage as before, but it's now pretty much silent, drawing a lot less power. They were easy to install - as ...
The other day Spy Blog complained about the Metropolitan Police's new anti-terrorism campaign. It includes a poster with the wording: "A bomb won't go off here because weeks before a shopper reported someone studying the CCTV cameras." As Spy Blog says: There is no evidence that any Islamic extremist or Irish terrorists or Animal Rights extremists or neo-Nazi extremists, who have exploded, or tried to explode bombs, or set off incendiary devices, have been deterred from doing so by the presence of CCTV cameras. Some may have been tracked down partially through the help of CCTV footage, after their attacks ...
Pat Thacker claims to have made nearly 6 tons of pickled onions and over 2 tons of marmalade, all for charity! Today she was presented with the Mayor's Community Award at a ceremony at the Guildhall. I read the citation and explained that Pat has been making pickles and preserves over the last 21 years for the Friends of St Paul's, and has raised at least £30,000 through...
On the train tonight, I got a call telling me I need to get a copy of Private Eye. All I know is that a certain North East MP is featured and it will make interesting reading! Something to do with the unions. I'll get a copy tomorrow.---Sent via BlackBerry
I could not have chosen a better day to make a return visit to Oaklands College's beautiful Smallford site as my photo of the main building shows! I last came here in the 1980s, some things have changed but the attractiveness of the environment has not. I was shown round by Mark Dawe, the Principal. For those of us who went through the school sixth form and university route, further education can be something of a mystery and it was great to see trainee footballers, florists, chemists, bricklayers, joiners, electricians, plasterers, equine specialists, not to mention the sheep and the ...
Iain Dale tagged me a week ago to take part in a small challenge/meme which asked if I had seen any of the 25 DVDs that Barack Obama had given to Gordon Brown. Shamefully I didn't see the e-mail saying I was tagged until last night, so belatedly I am taking the challenge. Those I own are 1) Star Wars (No, I will not call it "Episode 4" or "A New Hope". I saw it at the cinema in 1978 and it was simply called Star Wars.) 2) It's a Wonderful Life. Surely one of the greatest films ever made ...
The Daily Mail rarely devotes its columns to the praise of Liberal Democrat councillors. Deva Kumarasiri is an exception. The newspaper approvingly reports on a policy he has introduced in the Post Office he manages: Mr. Kumarasiri will not serve people who don't speak English because, he believes, they ought to learn it, as he has since emigrating to Britain 17 years ago. The paper says, If his customers can't be bothered to learn English, he tells them, they must go away and learn it before he serves them. His bold stand against non-integration has sent a shudder of political ...
A big well done to Lib Dem MP Adrian Sanders for what his blog calls his "little victory" in helping to force the Government to drop proposals which would have allowed people's details to be shared between organisations. The BBC reports: The Lib Dems said plans for secret inquests in England and Wales were "misguided" and they would continue to oppose any moves which "undermined" the jury system. ... They would have allowed ministers to apply for orders to remove data protection restrictions preventing the use of information for secondary purposes in certain circumstances. Justice Secretary Jack Straw had argued ...
I have it on good authority that if Labour win the next General Election, these guys will be repeating this performance on Downing Street:
Roll up, roll up, it's a meeting of the Prestwich Local Area Partnership next week. And this time it's well worth attending, with three big items on the agenda: The Prestwich Festival, the summer's Oasis concerts, and the latest plans to regenerate the town centre. The LAP meeting is on Thursday March 26 at Sedgley Park Primary School in Prestwich (Kings Road / Bishops Road), starting at 6.30pm. Prestwich Festival co-ordinator David Curtis will outline plans for the five-week festival, which runs from May 17 to June 21. You can find out how to take part and help out. There'll ...
In his first full day in Africa as Pope, Benedict XVI continues in his stance against condoms (the Johnnies of the piece) as a way to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic ravaging the continent. He said he'd come with a 'message of hope' but where is the hope for the 22 million across Africa who are already affected, or their wives and families. The Catholic Church is adamant that education of abstinence and family life is the way to go. He claimed that chastity outside marriage and fidelity within it had proved to be "the only sure way of preventing the ...
Mike Smithson blogged about how comments made by David Laws are wrong when it comes to the comparison of polling results leading up to the general election of 1997, then Mark Pack blogged opposing what Mike said, and I have to agree with Mark Pack on this one. Leading up to the 1997 general election the ICM Poll was showing Labour leads between 14% and 22% and now in the same period of time in 2008/2009 the results show Tory leads between 5% and 15%. Now I am not one to boast but the Tories can put away the celebration ...
{Oasis_Noel_and_Liam_WF} The Manchester rock band "Oasis" will be performing in Heaton Park on Thursday 4th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 2009 in probably the largest events the park has seen since the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982, or possibly since I took a rowing boat out onto the lake in 2005. Local residents are understandably very concerned about the impact of the concert on our local area. Your local councillors have already been involved in advanced planning for the event, which will look at all the local issues - buses, traffic, schools, noise, crime, litter etc. ...
Durham County Council has a "Deprivation of Liberty Project Manager". You may not be surprised to learn that the London Borough of Hackney has one too.
Some things take a time to develop. The parking situation at the bottom of Downman Road had been a bit dire with quagmire of mud most winters. After consultation, lobbying and work of residents the results are there to see. It's oneof those things that after a couple of false dawns actually seeing it in the flesh is very gratifying. Sometimes councillor work is drawn out......
You may have seen that The Guardian is running a series on the state of the Labour Party and whether they have any chance at all of winning the next general election. Today, the paper has run a "view from inside the cabinet" piece. All day, I have been genuinely perplexed by this quote from the Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell. "The Labour governments of the 1950s and 70s ran out of steam. They radiated exhaustion. We are not there. We have the dynamism and energy to take us forward, explaining what we see as the narrative of the future." Of ...
Appearing on the BBC earlier today, David Laws made the point that the Conservative Party's lead in the opinion polls is fairly modest at the moment compared with Labour's in the run-up to 1997. This led Mike Smithson to blog: Why's the LD schools spokesman getting it so wrong? You'll have to indulge me if you think I've banged on about this too much - but I have a real "bee in my bonnet" about the phoney invalid polling comparisons that journos, pundits and politicians are rushing to make when they compare the polling position at the moment with what ...
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Jeremy Browne writes... Why I voted against the UK Youth Parliament meeting in the Commons
Yesterday Lib Dem Voice highlighted the vote by MPs to allow the UK Youth Parliament to meet in the chamber of the House of Commons at a time when it's not sitting. Jeremy Browne and Bob Russell were the two Lib Dem MPs to vote against. In this article for LDV Jeremy explains his position. The vote on Monday was a free vote on House of Commons business and every Liberal Democrat MP was free to vote how he or she wished. Apart from the party spokesman, I was the only Liberal Democrat MP who attended the overwhelming majority of ...
All of us now know what family and friends of patients at Stafford Hospital have known for along time - that it is a deeply dysfunctional organisation. Its grotesque failings arethe bitter harvest of a NHS system which is itself experiencing multiple organ failure. But it is not just the hospital management that has failed; the entire regulatory structure has [...]
A brief missive, for this blog is supposed to be paused for a while (if you hadn't noticed). Firstly, this is my website of the day: BAD PAINTINGS OF BARACK OBAMA Ho ho ho. Secondly, I've just had a moan on Guido's post about Bagshaw v Scarlett, as follows: "... it would nice if a post about two women could be responded to in some terms other than how much you would or would not like to fuck them. A tad pathetic, even from men who spend all day hiding behind a laptop." Admittedly, I'm a man who spends most ...
Sweden takes the EU Presidency in July, and at a private meeting in Stockholm I had the chance to put questions about Palestine and the nature of the incoming Israeli government to Carl Bildt, the foreign minister (and former prime minister). "There are two pieces of good news," he said. "The Gaza situation has helped ensure that the EU is more united in its policy than ever before. And the Obama approach with the appointment of George Mitchell has brought us even closer to the US administration. "There is no more good news. I think it was a mistake for ...
Guido Fawkes has blogged about a rumour within the Liberal Youth elections about how Sara Scarlett might have resigned as a candidate in the election and how Elaine Bagshaw has been playing dirty politics. To read Guido's blog post follow the link! I would like to reassure readers and Liberal Youth that this is not true, and Sara according to us is still a candidate. I have contacted Sara to ask her if she is still a candidate but have not received a reply. As soon as I do this blog shall be updated with the news! Update: Sara Scarlett ...
I know I'm turning up fashionably late for the party by talking about student fees today rather than yesterday, but it's about time I was fashionable at something, and let's rejoice in the fact that I turned up at all... So some universities want the government to consider raising tuition fees to up to £7,000 per year. On top of a student loan to live and eat for three years, which I am (probably very conservatively) going to say is £3,000 per year, that means they are advocated students on three year courses leaving with debts of £30,000. That's twice ...
Quite an interesting session this: several questions, from all sides, did a good job of uncovering the deeply managerial soul of New Labour, and its according fixation with formulating strategy rather than getting things done, and with punishing management failure rather than seeking its root causes in the bigger picture. First, Cameron and Brown battled again, quite earnestly this week, over the economy. The bones of contention were Stuff and Things this time, rather than the more usual Apologies and Hurt Feelings, and the session was the better for it. Cameron sought to prove that all the grandiose schemes and ...
If I was asked the question it would be because I am someone who doesn't want to be forced to carry an ID Card, give my details to a massive government database, get the same respect as everyone else even though I am from an ethnic minority and because I am against the Tory and Labour decision of going to Iraq!
Residents are urged to attend the next meeting of Prestwich Local Area Partnership when three massive issues will be on the agenda. Prestwich Festival, the summer's Oasis concerts, and the latest plans to regenerate the town centre will be discussed. The LAP meeting is on Thursday March 26 at Sedgley Park Primary School in Prestwich, starting at 6.30pm. Love Prestwich co-ordinator David Curtis will outline plans for the five-week festival, which runs from May 17 to June 21, and how local people can take part and help out. Rock legends Oasis are playing Heaton Park on June 4, 6 and ...
Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Vince Cable today criticised Barclays for obtaining a court order banning The Guardian from publishing documents showing how the bank set up companies to avoid paying hundreds of millions of pounds in tax. He has offered to provide a witness statement to support the press in court. Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg will later today meet...
The Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Minister, Jenny Randerson has responded to the announcement by the Education Minister today of the introduction of Top-up fees by accusing Labour and Plaid Cymru of abandoning students and pushing them towards increased debt.She said: "However complex this set of announcements is, it does not disguise the fact that funding for students to get to
The Welsh Liberal Democrats have published a paper to mark Kirsty Williams one hundredth day as leader. Writing in the document Kirsty says:One of my first tasks was a Cabinet reshuffle which saw portfolios being realigned bringing a fresh look to the Assembly team - a team ready to fight for the people of Wales.We exposed the housing scandal of £94 million being sent back to the Treasury from
You might have read in the Newsshopper that two ladies in their late 80's from Downham let a man into their home after he showed them a police warrant card and badge. He asked various questions about their security and managed - with the help of an accomplice - to steal a £1,000 from the bedroom. It was money saved to pay for their funerals. The Downham ward Councillors want to help these ladies and are organising a Quiz Night and Raffle at The Downham Tavern from 7.30pm on Thursday, March 19th to raise some money to help reimburse them. ...
Recently I have been adding up some numbers from past elections in Brierfield and Nelson North, and a poll that I did on this blog a while ago and have worked out the average and the figures give out an interesting result. The average results are: 1st Liberal Democrats 43% 2nd Labour 30% 3rd BNP and Conservatives (that's both party votes together) 29% If you are wondering why I have put the Conservative and BNP vote together, its because they isn't much difference between the two parties except one is more racist then the other! The Percentage of the vote ...
I have no idea why the Guardian gives space to petty school-yard bickering like this. It all indicates that the Green Party are dysfunctional, bicker rather than debate, and are a wasted vote for people who really want to save the environment. It's a shame because a lot of Green Party grassroots members I meet (such as [...]
"FOUR teenagers lost their lives as three more days of violence swept Broken Britain." The Sun, 16th March 2009. "Fatal stabbings have reached a record high of five every week, preliminary police figures have shown." Daily Express, 29th December 2008. 'GANG STABBINGS FILLING HOSPITALS' Daily Express, 26th November 2008.On 10th July 2008, four people were murdered in separate incidents around London. We all know the general story. Broken Britain . Stabbings and shootings everywhere. Collapse of society. Much worse than it used to be. Everyone from David Cameron to Noel Edmonds sounding off about it (you might have thought Mr ...
I am grateful, once again to the other parties in Reading for highlighting the hard work of my Lib Dem colleagues and I on behalf of the local communities we were elected to serve. RBC statistics obtained by Cllr Willis show that once again I have raised the most local issues with the Council via it's "Acolaid" IT system. This system records emails we send to officers to get things fixed from potholes to planning, and fly-tipping to licensing issues. And there are a lot of issues needing our attention in Redlands, let me tell you. This follows a similar conclusion reached by Rob White of the Green Party last ...
Earlier today I blogged about how I would watch Prime Ministers Questions and then blog about it but I was called into the line of action, I had to go and do a leaflet delivery of Whitefield Ward and have just finished and I am back. The blogging did not take place, but I can update Conservatives and alert them that the Liberal Democrats campaign has started in Brierfield and Nelson North, and the Big Beast Lib Dems are going to win the seat. We might have started late but slow and steady wins the race, so stay tuned for ...
The link is to an article in JEP as to whether it is possible to either have a private prosecution or judicially review a decision by the Attorney General in Jersey to prosecute. Viz it says:THERE is no mechanism in Jersey to launch a private prosecution if the Attorney General decides not to pursue a case.Attorney General William Bailhache told the States this week that private prosecutions
Liberal Democrat members of a Council watchdog panel have expressed concerns that adequate information is not being released about the Council's home care services. Members sitting on the Healthier Communities and Older People O&S panel meeting met yesterday to examine an update report on the new providers of home care services in Bath and North East Somerset, most of which have been...
I know this Pope has form for saying really stupid things but the latest one about condoms - madness pure madness. This Pope effectively wants people to die!
John Thurso, Liberal Democrat spokesman, has written to us to say that the party in Westminster will oppose the government's proposals to sell off part of Royal Mail. He says: "Our position on the Government's Bill is clear. As drafted the legislation would not secure a sustainable and competitive future either for the Royal Mail or the Post Office network. The Liberal Democrats will therefore be opposing it." He goes on: "We have judged the Government's Bill against five tests - 1) Does it guarantee the Post Office's future as a separate, public sector, public service organisation? 2) Does it ...
One of the most common reasons I hear people give for not joining a social network site such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn is, "I know it's useful, but where would I find the time to keep up with what's happening?" A typical way of tackling, at least in party, this dilemma is to go through carefully tweaking your email alert settings on each service, so that you get emails for the information you want to know about - but nothing more. Then you can set up some rules and a folder in your email program to file these alerts ...
Wednesday is not only national lottery day, it is also bin lottery day in my area (Langworthy). If your lucky (house) number comes up, you will get your bin emptied. Sometimes, you might even get your bin emptied completely - unlike today, for one of my neighbours. {Litter left strewn across street after bin emptied} Litter left strewn across street after bin emptied What we don't expect is our binmen to just dump the contents of our refuse bins all over the road and pavement. At first, I wasn't even sure our bins had been emptied (when I left at ...
From Politics Home: Mr Clegg said that not only should a gagging order preventing the release of documents showing how Barclays help companies avoid tax be lifted immediately, but any bank which has received taxpayer help should stop aiding tax avoidance. He said it is, "simply intolerable to have taxpayers pass billions through the front for, whilst banks avoid billions in tax through the back door.
Peter Brookes Cartoon in today's Times points out a serious story of the Roman Catholic Church's attitude to Africa and the frisson over how to handle the AIDS epidemic that is sweeping that continent. I hope to write more about that later in the meantime enjoy Mr Brookes' work.
Site Development Workshop This took place at the Trinity Centre in Wallington. Key representatives from local residents' associations had been invited to this workshop to hear about the drafting of the Site Development Policy and to feed in their views about the proposed sites in the Wallington area. In order to meet the requirements of the 'London [...]
I wasn't going to comment on Liberal Youth's latest endeavours in eating its own young while the executive elections were ongoing; for all the passions they've engendered, the candidates themselves aren't the problem. But I felt I couldn't let Jenni Clutten's contribution to Lib Dem Voice yesterday go unanswered; not because what she said was wrong, but because what she didn't say was... When I talk to people in the party about Liberal Youth I ask them one simple question; what has it actually done? Reading University branch is a great success, but that's because Gareth Epps is an outstanding ...
Out canvassing over the weekend with Liberal Democrat candidate, Ian Dowling, in the Temple Newsam ward in Leeds. In a couple of weeks time, the voters there face a by-election caused by the well-publicised resignation of one of the Labour councillors in the ward. The demographics of the community in the ward suggest no reason why the Liberal [...]
"Dear Tony Lloyd, As an officer in the University of Manchester Students' Union, I was shocked at the recent announcement by two-thirds of vice-chancellors, speaking anonymously, calling for an increase in the cap on tuition fees to at least $4000 per year, with some calling for it to be £20,000. I strongly believe that this would be a very regressive move for Parliament to take, and will put off many people from applying to university. Students already graduate with thousands of pounds of debt, and the National Union of Students have estimated that if fees were to rise to £5,000 ...
.....is that BOTH the EPP and any new grouping would have bigots and homophobes lurking in the wings? What it really comes down to are two things: 1. Would it not be better for them to stay in the big ship Merkel/Sarkozy - unless of course the real problem is to placate the Tory core activists. Obviously, [...]
Joy of joys - our very own Liberal Democrat Voice has made it into the latest issue of Private Eye - well done guys, you've arrived. OK, it's only nine words, in the Obamaballs column (for the LDV headline "MPs Expenses: Yes we can!"). Even more annoying for us wannabe bloggers, its a headline from the excellent Orwell prize nominee Alix Mortimer. Maybe one day the Cafe will get there.
Frankly, I think that it is a bit of a cheek for a Vodaphone representative to argue to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee that Wales is losing out on mobile phone coverage because of nimbyism. Their solution to a better service appears to be more masts. Yet they have proved it is possible to share networks for 999 calls in Wales, thus alleviating the need for more of these intrusive structures. Why cannot they do the same for non-emergency calls? If I go abroad then my mobile finds the nearest network. Surely that arrangement can be put in place here ...
I shall be blogging about Prime Ministers Questions after the programme because I have no college today in the afternoon. So stay tuned for what I think of the performances by the three party leaders and my overall mark for them! On another note check out the sidebar and the new Top 25 Blogs Widget from Total Politics, it will be used as the main blog r0ll with links to other blogs that I think are worth a read but aren't part of the Iain Dale Cronies club!
In case you haven't heard about it, there's an extraordinary and very important new film being released this weekend called "The Age of Stupid". It's very gripping for the whole of its 90 minutes and its star, Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite, is superb. But most of all it has the potential to transform the debate about climate change. Read all about it here:...
Lib Dem equalities spokesperson Lynne Featherstone has written to the Tories shadow foreign affairs spokesman William Hague asking him to clarify if his party intends to join forces with a Polish party in the European parliament known for its homophobic remarks. Politics.co.uk reports: The party in question is called the Polish Law and Justice party. The Tories are being pulled towards them after leaving their grouping in the European parliament - the centre-right European People's party. It was the culmination of a promise David Cameron made while running to be party leader, but he must now form a grouping with ...
As the BBC reports here, Tory MP for Hertford and Stortford Mark Prisk has been publicly rebuked by the Speaker of the House of Commons for for breaking Parliamentary rules in relation to political campaigning. Parliamentary rules state that MPs are not allowed to use their role as a Member of Parliament to undertake activity in other constituencies, in order to prevent Parliamentary casework being used for party political campaigning. But speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Lib Dem MP Matthew Taylor asserted that Mr Prisk was guilty of using the invented title of 'Shadow Minister for Conrwall' to ...
Good news for road safety in the area, but bad news for people who like to treat Hilton Lane like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway - work has begun on some traffic islands. These will achieve two things. First, they'll make crossing Hilton Lane less risky than walking blindfolded into a tiger enclosure wearing a suit of beef. And second, they'll slow the traffic down, thus making the entire area seem more like a suburban highway and less like the Monaco Grand Prix. Both of these things are, in my view, good things. Unfortunately it does mean a few roadworks for ...
Good to see LibDem MPs taking the lead on this: Whatever you think about the protesters and their aims, anyone who believes in liberty cannot support the actions of the police here - harassing and attacking peaceful protesters. As with so much authoritarianism today they try to claim its for the protester's own good. The only change [...]
... from the Scottish Liberal Democrats
Daily collection of links and thoughts that weren't worth a whole post. 13:11 beating up some bread dough #Microblogging using LoudTwitter and Twitter. matgb_twitter is there if you're mad enough. Hopefully I've fixed the recursion problem, and if you'd rather this was cut, then editing your LJ code to do so is easy.
Councillor Robin Lawrence and the Liberal Democrats are urging Wolverhampton residents to save money from their household gas and electricity bills and reduce their carbon emissions by taking up the energy efficiency measures that energy companies in the UK offer.
I am delighted that the pavement in Hyndford Street has now been brought up to standard and adopted by the local authority. See earlier article about this by clicking on the headline above. Residents are naturally pleased at the improvement, summed up by the following e-mail to me last week: "I am sure you will know that Hyndford Street has just been upgraded to an adopted standard. Thank you for your involvement over the past years ! It has been appreciated. No more old folk, prams, wheelchairs etc taking risks by preferring to walk on the road."
The saga in the Health Service is the same as the saga in Child Protection. The introduction of targets changes the decisionmaking processes to lead towards hitting the targets. That is what they are supposed to do.In areas in which the decisionmaking processes are complex and require subtle judgment targets are more damaging in ways that cannot easily be forseen than in making rivets.
{Oasis_Noel_and_Liam_WF} The Manchester rock band "Oasis" will be performing in Heaton Park on Thursday 4th, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June 2009 in probably the largest events the park has seen since the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982. Local residents are understandably very concerned about the impact of the concert on our local area. Your local councillors have already been involved in advanced planning for the event, which will look at all the local issues - buses, traffic, schools, noise, crime, litter etc. We want the events to be a success, but Prestwich people need to live ...
I wander into Market Harborough one Saturday morning, come across a charity sale, buy an obscure DVD starring James Robertson Justice and write about it. Now that posting comes up on the first page if you Google "James Robertson Justice". Incidentally, I seem to be on an early James Robertson Justice kick at the moment. I picked up a video of the Ealing drama Against the Wind in a Leicester charity shop on Saturday.
The BBC is reporting a study, reported in the Lancet, claiming to show that having a BMI of between 30 and 39 reduces your life expectancy by three years. It may or may not be true. The reported conclusions from these studies often seem at odds with the evidence in the papers themselves. I haven't read the full study, so we'll wait and see. But let's assume it is true. Let's work on the basis that a moderately obese person will, on average, die three years earlier than they would have had they been at their optimum weight. So what? ...
Sorry that it has taken so long to put up this blog entry but with the aching bones an mussels it has taken a few days to feel like moving. I finished the Bath Half Marathon in about 3hrs 10 and Sharon about 3hrs 30 minutes both times are estimates as the official web site has not yet published all of the results. One lesson learnt is that al that Gym training does...
Nearly twenty years ago I was living in Hertford, and I still have friends there. It's a comfortable area of pretty villages and commuter towns, green fields and good schools, typical Tory territory. Now it seems that the local MP is so complacent about his seat that he's been off moon-lighting in other MPs' constituencies. Mark [...]
Ahead of Friday's debate in Parliament on the Fuel Poverty bill, Bath MP Don Foster has praised the work of the 'Warm Front Scheme' in tacking fuel poverty in Bath. To date the scheme has helped 1134 homes in Bath by implementing measures that can cut energy bills by up to £600 a year. Bath MP Don Foster said, "The Warm Front scheme helps those most in need in society to save...
It just doesn't make any sense really, does it? The whole get rich quick Thatcherite experiment has just been shown up for the 'Con Trick' it always was and what's the response of the British people? Well, if the polls are to be believed they are going to elect them back into power. Their fraudulent banking buddies in the City must be laughing their heads off. 'That Cameron chap was always a bit of a bounder when he was my fag, but if he's going to give us another chance to line our pockets at the public expense...' Well think ...
Wishes he'd invented 'Hump' bags as every cyclist in London seems to have bought one.
I had a little victory yesterday when I asked the Justice Minister about data sharing.The BBC has the story copied below: Ministers drop data sharing plan Controversial plans to allow people's details...
{Straford District Council} At some point there had to be a technology post on this site - many of you will know how much I like gadgets and new ways of keeping in touch with local people. For a change I have to give a positive story about the District Council - it is using Twitter (a sort of social networking site, like Facebook except much simpler) to give people up to date information about Council services. If you are interested in seeing what Twitter is like, and want to know what the District Council is doing, click here. Twitter ...
Tony Pidgley, the founder and Chairman of the Berkeley Group has, give or take 5%, called the bottom of the housing market. Well he would say that, wouldn't he? As a house builder he has a vested interest in house prices rising. Yet Pidgley, the son of a gypsy and who is unable to read or write, also has a hard-earned reputation to protect. He has now steered his company through three recessions and on each occasion he has rode the market perfectly. This time looks no different. About three years ago, when his competitors continued to gear up debt ...
