I spent this morning helping with the Big Spring Clean on Corstorphine Hill Nature Reserve. This is about 70 acres of woodland in my council ward planted on dolerite rock. Very much the lungs of the city it is part of the Kidnapped Trail i.e. one of the places in Scotland featured in the Robert Louise Stevenson Classic Kidnapped. The novel ends on Corstorphine Hill with the heroes Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart bidding each other farewell at the Rest and Be Thankful looking down on the bogs of Corstorphine. The marsh is still remembered in the names of ...
This evening, at my last (for now) Council meeting and in yet another attempt by the Labour Party to get political advantage from the RCRE funding row, it was asserted that Reading Borough Council had strategic responsibility for community cohesion. In that case, why did a search for "community cohesion" on the RBC website come up blank? socialise this: [IMG: add 'Community Cohesion? Not in Reading, mate!' a Del.icio.us] [IMG: add 'Community Cohesion? Not in Reading, mate!' a digg] [IMG: add 'Community Cohesion? Not in Reading, mate!' a Stumble Upon] [IMG: add 'Community Cohesion? Not in Reading, mate!' a FaceBook] ...
The James report on capital spending makes interesting reading, as one might expect. There's a great deal of sense in there. Money has been wasted because every school project in the country has been treated as a separate project with little opportunity for learning from successes and problems elsewhere. Also local authorities are not always well placed to negotiate contracts with the
Long before I became Lead Councillor for Housing I have cared deeply about the need to help to create decent homes and neighbourhoods in Reading. This grew out of my experience as a ward councillor representing one of the most deprived estates in the Borough - Hexham Road. Since 2006, both in opposition and more recently in administration I have actively campaigned to help create a better local built environment in Reading. Recently residents from Caversham to Whitley have been in touch with me and colleagues at the Council to welcome the new spring blooms planted by the Council's housing ...
This morning I went on a fascinating visit to a major new development in Avonmouth. The finishing touches are being put to a new waste reclamation facility that will make sending rubbish to landfill a thing of the past for Bristol & the West of England. West Country business New Earth Solutions gave a ...
Tonight, I attended the latest committee meeting of WestFest 2011. There's been great progress with the many events that will take place between 13th and 19th June. WestFest 2011 is set to be a week full of great events for all the family!
Sunday evening television is pretty poor. I liked Heartbeat, because a Spencer David Group B side might pop up at any moment, but apart from that it is a washout. So much so that, back in January, I found myself watching Terry Wogan's Ireland. The shows long ago disappeared from iPlayer, but you can still find a description of episode 2 on the BBC website: After sharing memories of his buttoned-up childhood holidays in Galway and witnessing a seismic shift in Catholic prudery when 180 Irish ladies throw off all their clothes and take a 'Dip in the Nip' for ...
Over recent weeks Lib Dem Councillor Chris Jerrey, the Town Mayor Steve Barnett and campaigner Tony Joannou-Coetzee, have listened to the concerns of residents in Herontye ward and repeatedly the question of more bobbies on the beat comes up. Whilst the station at East Court is to close, as Sussex Police attempt to save £52 million by 2015, there will actually be a greater uniformed presence throughout the Town according to Mid Sussex District Commander, Chief Inspector Ed De La Rue. Our Lib Dem colleague, and Herontye resident, Ginnie Waddingham was one of the first to react to this news ...
It's at http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix The webapage describes it as: Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute. As Kim Ayres explains here Some of you will already know about this, indeed will probably have it as an iPhone app or something. So far as I can make out,
My practice in this rewatch has been to take Old Who six stories at a time. This then is a particularly brief, but significant, run. Taken on its own merits, Logopolis is a bit unsatisfactory. The first couple of episodes have way too much exposition and info-dumping, and the last two episodes are basically about establishing the Master and the new Tardis team, and getting rid of the Fourth Doctor. But actually, watched in context, I can see why it gripped me at the time; the revival of the Master, the role of the Time Lords, and the CVE's all ...
Over here in Northern Ireland we have a different set of parties, with a different set of policies and a different set of priorities to a lot of the rest of the UK. In the run up to the Assembly Election on May 5th they are going to be prodicing a series of election broadcasts. I intend to, if they are easily available (i.e. on YouTube), embed them here so that people outside of Northern Ireland can see what the parties here are saying. I personally won't be passing comment, but feel free to add you own in the comments ...
I'm pleased to report that the mark I've received for my first SD226 TMA indicates that perhaps I can "do psychology" after all, provided that it's not wandering off down some post-modernist, science-hating rabbit hole as DD307 is apparently intent on doing. It's a big relief, as for a moment I was beginning to think that maybe I'd lost the ability to "do psychology". The problem is, however, that the return of my DD307 TMA02 can't be that far away now. I just hope I'm still smiling after that!
173Bath - Peasedown - Radstock - Midsomer Norton - WellsBath - Peasedown - Midsomer Norton - Keynsham - BristolSunday daytime 173 service will run commercially. Sunday evening 173 supported journeys will no longer operate between Midsomer Norton and Wells. These journeys operate between Bath and Midsomer Norton only and are re-numbered 178.Bank Holiday timetable operates as Sunday timetable. All
The other day I revisited the case of David Jack, the former Liberal Democrat PPC Stoke-on-Trent North. You may recall that he was forced to stand down after claims were made that he had sent a racist email. I had an interesting conversation with David this morning. He tells me that he was cleared by Bradford police last year after a 10-month investigation during which his computers were seized and his servers searched. It was carried out by Bradford police because the formal complaint against him was made from that city. No evidence was found that the email in question ...
We re asking First Great Western whether there is a regular satrting palce for the replacement bus service for Oldfield Park Station, as it is confusing often going from different places
We continue to speak to the officers about the state of the Wansdyke Path, helped by a local resident. This is complicated by the Wansdyke being an ancient Scheduled monument, but the council has a duty to maintain footpath its own, something needs to happen.
We have asked for white lines at the junction in Marsden Road and Ambleside Road and Ambleside Road and Edgeworth Road. Several residents have said that some car drivers are confuse about the correct right of way.
It normally sounds pretty obvious – you work out the unemployment rate by looking at the number of people in work and the number of people seeking work. But sometimes that leads to rather odd figures, as today's youth unemployment figures demonstrate. The Guardian's headline, One in five young people out of work (headline used on Guardian news page; there's a longer slightly different headline on the story itself), s pretty typical. But take your way to page 36, Table 14 and look at the raw numbers and it looks rather different. Number of 16-24 year-olds: 7,337,000. Number of 16-24 ...
As a supporter of voting Yes in the AV referendum I was most unimpressed with the pro Alternative Vote film broadcast on Monday. I thought it was not professional and did not explain enough of the reasons why alternative vote is a better system than fFrst Past the Post. An opportunity missed I feel. Have a look for yourself. I think there are many better films on You Tube explaining why AV is a better system like this one; and the system explained here;
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Royal College of Nursing have passed a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Andrew Lansley...by a whopping 98.76%. 13 delegates abstained, while only 6 voted against the motion. This latest blow to the Health Secretary came not long after his plans for reform of the NHS were ...
There was a welcome fall in unemployment this month, both locally in Acocks Green and nationally. The fall caught most commentators off guard and indicated that the economy is doing better than previously thought. Seasonally adjusted UK unemployment fell by 700 in March to stand at a rate of 5.1%. The unadjusted rate fell by over 11,000 to stand at 1.53 million or 5.3%. Both these figures are for those on unemployment benefit. As not everyone who is unemployed claims unemployment benefit the real unemployment level is estimated to be 2.48 million, down 17,000 in the past 3 months, during ...
NUS National Conference has elected Liam Burns to be the 55th President of the NUS (yes, they have had more Presidents that the United States!) In the final round of voting current NUS Scotland President Burns got 446 votes, compared with 279 for current VP Further Education Shane Chowen. NUS President Aaron Porter had backed Chowen to ...
Last Wednesday saw one of the few debates on the issue of AV that are taking place in the run-up to the referendum. Vince Cable paired up with Ken Livingstone to speak for the Yes side, and for the No position Lord Michael Howard teamed up with Olympic Gold Medallist and prominent Labour supporter Martin Cross (with a very humorous Clive Anderson in the Chair). After Vince opened the debate with a brief overview of the issue, Lord Howard made a good and impassioned speech. However, there seemed to be a contradiction in what he said which thankfully Clive Anderson ...
It's been a busy week. Amongst all of the campaigning, we hosted the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg MP to Ceredigion last week when he visited our candidate Elizabeth Evans' hometown of Aberaeron to meet local representatives of the local business community. Today, we were back in Aberaeron for the launch of the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Manifesto. Kirsty Williams, our popular Welsh leader, officially launched the manifesto this lunchtime in front of the TV cameras (and Newsnight's Michael Crick!) and a gathering of supporters. Our Elizabeth Evans introduced Kirsty and the assembled media pack to Aberaeron and Kirsty's manifesto ...
Here at Eaglescliffe we have a great airport on our doorsteps – still known as Teesside Airport to most of us despite the best efforts of the owners to change it to Durham Tees Valley. From my house I can take a 10 minute walk in the other direction to a railway station with a reasonably frequent service going past the airport on its way to Darlington. The airport has a railway station too – ideal you might think. Think again. Trains stop there once in each direction on Saturdays and now on Sundays too. For the rest of the ...
Easter Eggstravaganza: eggcellent crafts and activities at Yate Library, Tuesday 19 April from 10.30am until 12.00. Free drop-in, suitable for 4 - 11 year olds. For Easter activities in other libraries click here.
Technically, it's only half a new book as some of the stories in this collection are ones I've read before. Of course, they're Stross short stories, which means they're always worth reading again to find something new buried deep within them. The standard's generally very high – though I'd agree with the author's own assessment that 'Trunk and Disorderly' doesn't quite work – and many of these stories contain more original and interesting ideas than most novels get into a much longer length. It's also a good illustration of Stross' versatility as a writer and his willingness to experiment with ...
Wed 13th
14:57
Votes for prisoners - Why does the Labour Party falsely claim it is a Lib Dem policy when our Lib De...
Labour pose the question in their leaflet, "Are you aware that the Liberal Democrat Party has long been in favour of votes for prisoners?" On 10th February 2011 the House of Commons voted on a motion to continue denying prisoners the vote. The following Lib Dem MPs voted against votes for prisoners. If as Labour ...
A Cambridgeshire County Councillor has just sent me a superb comment from the Cambridge News web site, by a reader (CleverRichard) summing up the latest twist in the infamous Cambridgeshire guided busway saga. It's so brilliant it just has to be preserved for posterity - perhaps on the plaque to be unveiled if and when the accursed thing ever opens. "The cost of the guided busway (£180 million) now exceeds the amount of money spent making the film Inception ($160 million). However let's look on the bright side, years from now - long after the film is forgotten - Cambridge's ...
The Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil was sentenced to three years imprisonment for "insulting the military" by a military court on Sunday, without the presence of his lawyers or family. I hope to write more on the background to his imprisonment ... Continue reading →
In both Rwanda and then, initially, in the former Yugoslavia, international peacekeeping troops were dispatched and then largely stood by as widespread, murderous violence took place around them. A mixture of weak mandates, limited military deployments and prioritising the safety of peacekeepers over those they were meant to be protecting meant little was achieved until – in the case of Yugoslavia – greater military force was deployed by the international community. That lesson has strongly influenced many international interventions since – don't intervene unless you are willing to do so with significant military firepower. The desire to minimise loss of ...
Whilst out today with my wife, I spotted Cllr Harry Smith on Worcester Road and sure enough when I returned home there was a Labour leaflet delivered. It seems both the Lib Dems and Labour agree that the nearly £2 million spent on Cathcart Street Primary School is a good idea. The very spot Cllr ...
Westerleigh Road, from the Folly public house to the ring road will be closed from 6pm on Friday 15 April 2011 until 5.30am on Monday 18 April 2011.
Having already had one of their candidates arrested during this campaign, the BNP are now circulating a leaflet that contains a gross distortion of the truth. There is nothing new there. In their leaflet, they say that from 1 May Eastern European migrants will be able to come to this country and claim up to £250 a week in benefits. This is not true. The article is based on a Daily Mail story on 4th March which refers to a change in European law, but also makes it clear that Government officials reject the whole basis of the story. In ...
I've always admired the French Republic and the principle of laïcité; a society based on the tradition of strict secularism and separation of religious affairs from actions of government policy. The United States could learn very well from France. Alas, ... Continue reading →
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An interesting post from Cornwall's sole Labour councillor in which she comes out in favour of scrapping weekly bin collections. The council's ballot closes on May 15th and you can vote online here. I recommend backing Option A which means keeping weekly collections.
After a bit of a furore over my blog post yesterday about the delay in the council being able to tell me what legal role councillors play in responsibility for looked after children, it looks as though there might be some movement - a mere six months after I asked the question. I have had a helpful reply from one of the legal officers which, although it doesn't completely answer the question, at least takes me some way along the road. More, no doubt, when the full response arrives
As a parish councillor, I represent the most local level of public representation. Obvious, I know, but important to bear in mind. And yet, I never have anyone come up to me and ask me for help or advice on anything. Given my relative lack of power or influence, that perhaps doesn't come as a surprise, or at least it didn't until now. As I wander around Stowupland and Creeting St Peter, leaflets in hand, I run into local residents in their front gardens or wherever. Being a polite soul, I say hello and introduce myself - I am the ...
Example: "Free Msg: Our records indicate you may be entitled to £3750 for the accident you had. To apply free reply CLAIM to this message. To opt out text STOP". Do not reply to this - you could well receive a flurry of texts for which you will be charged significantly. Do not phone the number - you could well be charged premium rates for the call to listen to a recorded message. What to do? Register a complaint with the Information Commissioner at https://www.ico.gov.uk/Global/contact_us.aspx, saying, for example, "I wish to register a complaint about this message as I believe ...
If Peter Bingle is right will we see his new centre-right party emerge as a Whig/classical liberal party?
The Metro has the story of Norman Baker rebelling against his own department.
Recommended reading for Lib Dem councillors and local campaigners from the last seven days: Nick Clegg and Vince Cable to demand major banking reform (Independent) Mr Clegg and Mr Cable, the Business Secretary, will press David Cameron to implement in full proposals to restructure the banks to be published on Monday. Vote referendum: Clegg dubs AV 'a very British reform' (BBC) Nick Clegg spoke at the Lib Dems' London Regional conference on Saturday. He said that changing the electoral system to the Alternative Vote will make MPs work harder and end the scandal of safe seats for life. [Read the ...
Camilla Cavendish has looked at the SBS issue in The Times today (sadly behind a paywall). There is a New Article about my letter to Ken Clarke and a more detailed piece about SBS in Times 2.My point is that the science should be treated as a scientific issue not a form of tribal warfare.
Welcome to the latest in our series giving the human face behind some of the blogs you can find on the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator. Today it is Jonathan Fryer, who blogs at www.jonathanfryer.wordpress.com. 1. What's your formative political memory? Jo Grimond came to my school during the 1964 general election, kept 400 normally fidgety boys rapt, and I thought, 'Yes, I believe that!' 2. When did you start blogging? March 2007. 3. Why did you start blogging? Blogging replaced many years of keeping a diary. Why only write for myself and whoever clears my house when I snuff it? ...
The range of plastics which Islington Council recycles has for a good while been impressively large, but the recent moves to make recycling mandatory have prompted me to find out the answer to something which has long puzzled me. Read the explanations from Islington Council as to what plastics can be recycled in the Green Box collection and you'll find it includes various items of plastic packaging which actually have the 'don't recycle' logo on them. Take this example: Plastic packaging - logo says don't recycle, Islington Council says do recycle So which is right? The Islington Council information saying ...
On the last Saturday of the season, 4th team Captain Danny Gillespie had 36 players making themselves available to be part of his team against Old Wandsworthians. This might have had something to do with the fact that his table topping side were all set to seal the Surrey Foundation League championship with a champagne soaked home win. This season, the Warlingham side that welcomes almost anyone and everyone, has built up a reputation for winning. Under the inspirational leadership of Danny "Anger Management" Gillespie, some great sides have been put together and some great clubs from across the county ...
I understand that some other candidates for the election in May have commented that the West Way Shopping Centre is 'shabby', which I disagree with. I use the shopping centre several times a week and, while it is not Bluewater or the Orchard Centre in Didcot, it is an excellent local centre, with all the essential services people need, including the much loved library. The West Way shopping centre is not perfect but it has the beautiful parade of shops in front and fairly functional and 'green' precinct at the back. Most importantly it 'works' and it is popular and ...
To mark the end of Waking The Dead this week, Jonathan Calder provides us with a chance to see the (rather long) opening titles of Trevor Eve's first crime series Shoestring. A few years after leaving Shoestring (and inspiring the creation of Bergerac in his wake), Eve was trying his luck in California and appearing in a series called Shadow Chasers, which Wikipedia informs us was the lowest-rated US TV show of 1985/6. But then, given that the advertising for the series appeared to consist of getting people who weren't in it to say the name while Ron Howard grew ...
For Oxford and Cambridge there is a very simple solution to the issue of political interference in their admissions processes, leave the state system. The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister's interventions this week, claiming race and income discrimination on the part of elite universities, are so evidence-free and infantile they barely merit comment. Suffice to say the spectacle of the Coalition's leading Oxbridge-educated figures behaving like socialist worker leaflet pushers ranting about social justice, is unlikely to inspire many youngsters that the route to success involves making a thoughtful case based on evidence. Something they teach in elite universities. ...
Last night's Scrutiny meeting was one of the better ones from the year. We had a good look at four important items, giving our feedback to top officers and Cabinet Members and asking them to take on board the comments of some of us backbench members. First up was winter maintenance, always a hot topic ...
I wasn't intending to do another post on RCRE but they are beginning to get quite vicious and nasty with their defence of their gravy train, acting like ferrets in a sack, swinging punches at anyone who disagrees with them and playing the racist card to the maximum. All the council has done is ask them to justify the spending of hundreds of thousands of pounds of council tax payers money on them which has caused them to cry foul when asked for some accountability and above all verifiable outcomes. Instead, we've seen smears, attacks and lies used to justify ...
This is the chapter I contributed to Reinventing the State, edited by Duncan Brack, Richard Grayson and David Howarth whose themes are still very relevant: I have a secret to admit. I quite like big organisations. Of course - as you would expect of a liberal - I think power should be kept at as local a level as possible, that organisations should be responsive to individuals, and so that smaller is frequently better - and that individuals' freedom and rights get trampled on when Big Brother gets free rein. But faced with the reality of actually trying to change ...
It's always an odd experience to watch yourself speak. Everyone – I think – finds the sound of their own voice really odd. I'm no exception! This is the video from the Derby Museum Backstage Pass where we gave the first public demonstration of QRpedia. The Video Video shot by Nick Moyes. The SlidesAll slides are a work in progress. This is a close approximation of what was presented on the day. Introducing QRpedia at Derby Museum View more presentations from Terence Eden
For those who missed it...
Clement Attlee is considered to be one of the most successful UK politicians of all time yet was considered a potentially weak leader and a poor communicator at the time. Much has been written about his premiership from 1945-51. However, how Attlee was successful is often buried deep in analysis of his time in office. ...
As readers of this blog will know – the Government's Body Confidence campaign (co-founded when we were in opposition by myself and LibDem MP Jo Swinson way back when) is moving forward. One of our main themes is the persistent delivery of perfected images which imply that the use of a certain product will deliver such perfection – when of course – the perfection is courtesy of the air brush or digital alteration. The advertising industry has moved forward on this issue. It is a step in the right direction – a small step – but a step! The Committee ...
At last there is a start date for the long awaited "improvements" to Copdock Mill roundabout (the major interchange between the A12 and A14). However the alterations will not make the improvements many local people want. The order has just been published quoting a start date of May 9th. Works will be carried out overnight. Extracts from the Highways Agency's letter are included below for information. What this major road interchange really needs is a total redesign, but as there is no funding for that in the short term, what we have to accept is an interim "fix". The work ...
Wed 13th
08:59
How the Lib Dems make the difference: Part 1: The Cleaner and the Millionaire Banker #sp11
Remember last year Nick Clegg used the example of the cleaner on the minimum wage who paid a higher marginal rate of tax than her millionaire banker boss to demonstrate the intrinsic unfairness of the tax system? Well, come the start of the new tax year last week, the cleaner has had a tax cut, or may have even been taken out of tax completely, and the banker now has to pay 10% more on his capital gains. It's not enough yet, but it's a bigger step in the right direction than I've seen in my lifetime from either Labour ...
Labour MP persuades Labour supporter to be given a lift by a Labour member to ask a non-Labour MP why they don't like Labour and afterwards said Labour supporter says they are disappointed that non-Labour MP doesn't like Labour more. Apparently this counts as news. Ain't modern politics grand? (For longer version, see here.)
While we are mourning the end of Waking the Dead, here is a glimpse of a much younger Trevor Eve. Shoestring is the series that made his name. It ran in 1979 and 1980, in two series totalling 21 hour-long episodes. These are the opening and closing titles. The whole of the first series seems to be on Youtube, but it won't let me embed the videos. So you will have to look there yourself.
As timely as ever, Shelter Cymru have published their estimate of the impact of poor housing on the health service. In cash terms they say it is £67 million a year. These costs are the result of a number of factors including illnesses and accidents caused by problems such as pest infestations, broken boilers, electrical hazards and poor insulation. The joint study by Shelter Cymru and the Building Research Establishment Trust put the wider cost to society, including factors such as poor educational attainment and reduced life chances, at £168m a year. The other figure that they use is the ...
This is the third blog post countdown of my top 20 greatest sporting commentary moments. My first two blog post which can be viewed here and here gave my countdown from No.20 down to No.11. Here, we make a move into my top 10! No.10 - "...and I've got to stop, becuase I've got a lump in my throat" - Damon Hill wins the 1996 F1 World Championship (Murray Walker) I'm a big F1 fan and there will never be a greater commentator than the irreplaceable Murray Walker. He's known, indeed famed, for his 'Murray-isms' - his frenetically passionate commentary ...
Around the world in five links: America: The Grim Truth – "I am not writing this to scare you. I write this to you as a friend. If you are able to read and understand what I've written here, then you are a member of a small minority in the United States. You are a minority in a country that has no place for you." (via) New Account of a Russian Cosmonaut's Death Rife with Errors – As I linked to an account of the death of Vladimir Komarov a couple of weeks ago, here's a counterpoint, arguing that many ...
Last night, I attended the April meeting of West End Community Council at Logie St John's (Cross) Church Hall. Following on from my meeting in February with John Logue, Tayside Area Procurator Fiscal, and Chief Superintendent Gavin Robertson of Tayside Police, at which we discussed tackling vandalism, John and Gavin spoke last night to the Community Council on this issue, the work of the Procurator Fiscal and co-operation between the fiscal service and the police. It was a very useful presentation, followed by a lively question and answer session. The community council also discussed a number of other local matters ...
I'm just involved in a small project on Kilburn and commerce and wanted to check if I had the correct list of current functioning pubs. So the short question is are there any others or just the 18 I have listed here Queen's Arms, 1 Kilburn High Road, NW6 5SE The Westbury, 34 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 5UA The Old Bell, 38 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 5UA Betsy Smith, 77 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 6HY The Cock, 125 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 6JH The Golden Egg, 155 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7HU The Coopers Arms, ...
i) births and deaths 13 April 1924: birth of Christopher Tranchell, who played Roger Colbert in The Massacre (1966), Steven Jenkins in The Faceless Ones (1967), and Andred in The Invasion of Time (1978). 13 April 1951: birth of Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor from 1982 to 1984, and subsequently. Happy 60th birthday, Peter! 13 April 1984: death of Richard Hurndall, who played the First Doctor in The Five Doctors (1983). ii) broadcast anniversaries 13 April 1968: broadcast of fifth episode of Fury from the Deep. Weed and foam spread throughout the refinery. 13 April 1974: broadcast of ...
Maps from the Hobbit Many translated versions of the maps from The Hobbit. (tags: sf) 509 - Magical Siberia: A Russian Take on Middle-earth | Strange Maps | Big Think Parsing the Russian translation of the map in The Hobbit. (tags: sf) Will Martin McGuinness be First Minister? My answer: not this year. (tags: northernireland) Making Light: A digression on literary categories The Transnistrian Infundibulator (nothing to do with the fact taht I am currently in Moldova). (tags: sf)
I have received the following letter to which I need to reply by the end of the month. Please let me have your views. Chris CASUALTY REDUCTION PROPOSALS - SAR11029 A1057 Hatfield Road, St Albans (Clarence Road to Royal Road) Please can I advise you of a collision investigation that has been carried out on the above road. This investigation forms part of Hertfordshire County Council's ongoing commitment to reduce the number and severity of injury collisions that occur on our roads. An annual programme of engineering measures is developed to address those known injury collision locations and is promoted ...
Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, yesterday welcomed the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP, to Wales as they unveiled the Welsh Liberal Democrats policies that can ensure Wales' "Closed for business" sign is taken down. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have pledged to focus relentlessly on boosting economic growth, creating jobs and tackling low skills and making sure that Wales is a good place to do business. The Welsh Liberal Democrats manifesto, to be launched tomorrow, will include measures to: · Create jobs and improve our economy by offering businesses £2,000 for staff training if they ...
The local elections are confusing. Well they are fairly easy to understand if anyone explains, but in Morecambe we have elections for the Town Council when you can vote for up to five candidates, and the Lancaster City Council when you have up to three votes. On top of that we have the AV referendum and despite all the good efforts of those involved in the campaigns, many will not know what it all means. Fortunately the Liberal Democrats have put out a leaflet to explain the voting system. The lists of candidates has now been published and can be ...
