Here is another public service announcement along the lines of my revelation that the whole of Waking the Dead is on the BBC iPlayer Go to the Channel 4 site and you will find that all 151 episodes of Malcom in the Middle can be watched there for free. This was a comedy about family life and coming of age, screened between 2000 and 2006, with none of the cloying scenes that such a description can suggest. The parents - slightly larger than life and a little scary, like all parents - were briliantly played by Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan ...
Roger Dunton, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Harborough District Council, received the MBE in today's honours list. He has been a member of the council since 1987 and was honoured for services to the community in Market Harborough. Congratulations to Roger.
Back in 2007, when Nick Clegg made mental health the focus of his first major speech as Lib Dem Leader, it was pretty groundbreaking. And we walked the walk as well as talked the talk. Arguably the most successful part of our time in coalition was Norman Lamb's work as mental health minister. Not only did he do so much to talk about mental ill health and so challenge the stigma, but he improved mental health services for people. I often wished Scotland had a Norman Lamb. It took years for the SNP Government to update its mental health strategy ...
If normal grown-ups are ever allowed to play rugby again, we are going to need some great captains to lead people back onto the pitch. In My Life as a Hooker, the pinnacle of my playing career was when I became captain of Warlingham 4th XV. Here, are my top ten tips for captaining a rugby side in the lower leagues of the game. 1. You don't have to be the best player on the team. In fact, if you are, it can be a positive disadvantage. If you are any good, the higher teams in your club will keep ...
Kramer vs. Kramer won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1979, and won four others, Best Director (Robert Benton), Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Robert Benton again). Justin Henry, god bless him, remains the youngest ever Oscar nominee at the age of 8. The other Oscar-nominated films were Breaking Away, which I have seen, and All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, and Norma Rae, which I haven't. IMDB users rank Kramer vs. Kramer 6th on one list and 7th on the other. Alien, which won the Hugo Award, ...
With things so grim at the moment, it's good to look for hope. And I find it in the Somerset Wildlands project: The Somerset Levels were once England's Okavango Delta. From pelicans to lynx, beavers to sturgeons, it would have teemed with wildlife. While what remains is wonderful, too much is now gone. We will buy land to create space for nature and natural processes, and support the reintroduction of lost species. I had to look up the Okavango Delta and it turns out to be in Botswana. A parallel closer to home might be Germany's lost Oderbruch, as described ...
All the noise in politics at the moment, that has nothing to do with Covid 19 and Brexit, is about the decision by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) to award MPs a £3,360 pay increase next April on top of their £80,000 a year salary. This is not a decision that MPs have any control over but once again IPSA has shown itself to be insensitive and flat-footed, to the extent that Business minister Nadhim Zahawi has gone public to describe the move as "inappropriate" as the country continues to battle the global pandemic, businesses are struggling to survive ...
Today I wrote to the family of John Foley on behalf of all my colleagues in Liverpool to say how saddened we are at his death. He was a man full of warmth, vitality and honour. He passionately believed in ... Continue reading →
Fri, 12:56: Germany overcame its history. Why can't Poland? - POLITICO https://t.co/NwxjcEBI1u Good question. Fri, 14:14: RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Mars over Toronto. It won't be this close to Earth again until 2035. https://t.co/YSfUBob13B (great photo by friend And... Fri, 15:10: ◄ FICTIONAL STARSHIPS Size COMPARISON ► 3D 🛸 https://t.co/tZcAQyBl5G via @YouTube Worth watching to the end. Fri, 16:05: Pippi and the Moomins served as a social antidote to fascism https://t.co/Oq2ukXZSAR The political context of Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Fri, 17:11: New mural honouring frontline care workers unveiled in Brussels https://t.co/iGnZE3wHNK Nice. Fri, 18:03: RT @bbcdoctorwho: It's 55 years today since ...
Australia has a lovely tradition of putting on mini-summer fairs at polling stations, as I discussed with an Australian political expert for Never Mind The Bar Charts.
Liverpool born architect Alfred Waterhouse designed the Tower after the original one was destroyed. I've blogged about this magnificent building previously but having come across some quite excellent drone footage of it on You Tube I just had to share it:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnzhXFUouw Quote from You Tube commentary – 'This Gothic Revival architecture was designed by William Henry Crossland in 1864 and is widely regarded as one of the finest municipal buildings in the UK.' What's more the footage is set to one of my all time favourite tunes – Going Home by Mark Knopfler from the sound track for the ...
I seem to have skipped this date when I first did these posts in 2010. At that point there were no broadcast anniversaries (since then there have been two), but I'm surprised I missed a fairly significant birthday i) births and deaths 10 October 1937: birth of Victor Pemberton, the first person to have both written a Doctor Who story and also acted in one. He was also script editor of the show in 1967. He wrote Fury from the Deep (Second Doctor, 1968) and Doctor Who and the Pescatons (Fourth Doctor audio, 1976), and appeared as the minor character ...
Only one council by-election this week after last week's recommencement of elections. Again it was in a remote ward, this time off the west coast of Scotland, in the Western Isles: IND (Fulton) GAINS Na Hearadh agus Ceann a Deas nan Loch (Na H-Eileanan Siar) from IND (Cunningham) with 75% of first preference votes. IND (MacDonald) was 2nd on 22% & IND (O'Donnell) 3rd on 3%. pic.twitter.com/5rMDjceN0J — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) October 9, 2020
Sat 10th
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Dinham Bridge has taken a lot of heavy traffic this year - it's to be closed for inspection on 20 Oc...
Dinham Bridge will be closed on Tuesday 20 October 2020 from 9.30am to 4pm to enable a routine inspection of the bridge, which carries the road over the River Teme at Dinham. While the road is closed, traffic will be diverted along Dinham, Lower Wood Road, Whitcliffe Road and the B4361 by a signed diversion. This inspection has been scheduled for a while but we really need it this year. The official diversion for vehicles during the King Street closure (which looks likely to end next week) was over the Whitcliffe. We need to inspect our historic bridge to ensure ...
My many thanks to the West End resident for these superb Dundee photos!
