Taken at Marston Trussell three summers ago.
A Christmas carol service took place this evening in Sunniside to celebrate the village's Christmas tree. There was a good turnout at the event on Front Street - over 100 came along. They were joined by 2 donkeys as well! This is the first time we have had a public Christmas tree in the village but we are already looking ahead to next year when we will need to raise the funds for the tree
The European Space Agency offered Tom Scott a seat on their zero-G plane: it's an Airbus A310 that flies parabolic manoeuvres, pulling up into the sky and then arcing back down, giving its passengers about 20 seconds of weightlessness (or "microgravity") at a time.
Six sprouts = ONE portion. Don't overbuy and they won't go to waste. For more portioning tips visit https://t.co/BxotIbQvNW #Christmastip #wastefreexmas pic.twitter.com/BD03qjMsmx— Leicestershire CC (@LeicsCountyHall) December 16, 2017You know the score. Labour and the Liberal Democrats interfere in people's lives. The Conservatives are rugged individualists who have no time for petty regulations or elf 'n safety. Not round here they're not. The Tory-run Harborough District, for instance, can fine you if you feed the ducks on the Welland or fail to produce a bag to pick up mess when walking your dog. Now the Tory-run Leicestershire County Council has joined ...
Migration has always been part of the human condition. If the experts are right, then all of us originate from Africa if we go back far enough, and in the following millennia the human species settled the world. In more modern times, there have been several convulsive waves of migrants, such as ethnic Germans fleeing [...]
As if to mock me for my paranoia, security was significantly easier on me this year than in the last few...
As talk between the UK government and the EU moves past phase one (the easy bit, which wasn't particularly easy) onto discussions around the transitional phase (or implementation phase according to government semantics), people have begun to wonder how Theresa May will manage to keep both Remainers and Leavers in her party happy. I'll go one further: it might be difficult to keep the two tribes of Brexiteers pleased at one and the same time as the process develops. The first tribe of Brexiteers are the "Brexit at any cost" clan – which, just to confuse matters, are the least ...
Imagine waking up one morning in the not so distant future. You reach for your phone and none of your apps work, you can't access your email, all your social media accounts have been deleted. You can't get any money out at the bank because your facial recognition is not working and you have no way of hailing an autonomous taxi. You find out you have no job because you can no longer access the app that gives you shifts on a flexible basis. People on the street avoid you, they all know you have been blocked. Maybe you criticised ...
Spoilers for pretty much everything in the Last Jedi and the films that preceded it How the last Jedi lands so many big twists by Spencer Kornhaber (the Atlantic) "What about Finn and Rose's big moment? As the former stormtrooper goes to make like Russell in Independence Day and destroy the First Order's big blaster [...]
How do political parties realign themselves. That is a peculiar mystery in the UK, where everything seems desperately constipated. It also depends on context. The various explanations about how rival factions came together in 1859 to form the Liberal Party are usually too inward-looking to explain much. The threat of a looming continental conflagration never [...] The post Political realignment in the air – but do they understand how it happens? appeared first on Radix.
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The 12 Blogs of Christmas: Four. The Works of Friends.If you're looking for a last minute pressie rec for a geeky friend, you could do worse than check out this list of "cool things my friends have produced" by Paul Cornell Once Upon a Time you could write to the BBC for Doctor Who FactsheetsOMG the shotgun punctuation. Do transgender athletes have an unfair advantage at the Olympics? (from 2016)tl;dr: no. Peter Black: Why net neutrality underpins our freedomsIf you don;t understand all the fuss about net neutrality, Peter offers an easy to understand explainer here. If Brexit is going ...
... some of them made campaign videos on good old VHS tapes and sent them to voters, as this example from then Lib Dem MP Brian Cotter shows.
I suspect that most regional and national newspapers are getting letters from Brexiteers anxious to excoriate the eleven Tory MPs who voted against the government whip to ensure that Parliament gets to vote on the final deal with the EU. The South Wales Evening Post certainly did and here is a letter I have sent in response: In her recent letter (16 December), Caroline West is quite wrong to berate those MPs who voted to amend the Brexit bill so as to give Parliament a say on the final deal with Europe. The 2016 referendum was advisory and gave the ...
Bus services differ depending on who runs them but generally services run as normal up to the 23 December, have special timetables on 24 and from 26 until 31 Dec and then return completely to normal on 2 January. Here are some useful links: Stage Coach buses First Group Wessex Bus Travel West (scroll to the bottom to see the information for South Gloucestershire)
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 18 DECEMBER 2017 A85 Riverside Drive - prohibition of right turn from westbound lane of Riverside Drive into Riverside approach and prohibition of right turn from Riverside Approach in to Riverside Drive for one week for works to the sea wall. Prohibitions will only be in place when required.
Good morning! Yes, it's the last Monday before Christmas, and politics is, in theory, winding down towards the transition to peace and goodwill to all. And yet, the DExEU equivalent of Bob Cratchit is probably hard at work preparing for Phase 2 of the Brexit negotiations. Not an enviable task, I suggest... If you're watching, Bob, here's a cheery penguin to admire... We're expecting a fairly quiet day here at LDV Towers. I'll be taking my regular look ahead at this week in the Lords – yes, they're still there – and we have an interesting piece from Darren Martin ...
The Liverpool Echo has the story on its web site – see link above Taxi drivers should be beyond reproach as we put our lives in their hands when we hail or ring for one. This Echo story is not one to fill the taxi user with confidence although of course we are talking of a small minority of dodgy taxis muddying the waters for all the decent taxi drivers. I have always felt that Councils need to vet taxi drivers in great detail and I liked the St. Helens policy of making drivers wear uniforms as it must ...
Let's have a little counterfactual fun this morning. All just because ten years ago a Lib Dem party leadership contest came to an end. It was very close: Nick Clegg 20,988 Chris Huhne 20,477 Clegg had been seen as the front runner, with more support amongst the MPs and perhaps a bit because Huhne was defeated in the previous leadership contest. Huhne fought a bold campaign though, and nearly stopped the heir apparent to the top job. What if it had gone the other way? The usual mark against Huhne is the speeding ticket farrago. Putting the morality of the ...
Packaged in the form of a memoir, addressed to a kind of spiritual advisor (though the hero has no defined religious belief himself), Leslie Croxford's novel Deep Sahara (Momentum Books, £9.99) draws the reader into Algeria's deep south at a time when both Islamist fundamentlists and groups linked to the army and the deep state were involved [...]
