From an article on The Conversation by Peter Doyle, Jamie Pringle and Kristopher Wisniewski: Eighty years ago, as Nazi Germany's military might amassed along the French coast, small groups of highly trained British killers bade farewell to their families and made their way underground for what could well have been their last, lethal mission. Known as "scallywags", these individuals - many of them gamekeepers, landowners and poachers with an intimate knowledge of the rural areas in which they would operate - were members of Britain's clandestine World War II "Auxillary Units". And their mission, in the event of a Nazi ...
It stands beside the Welland, part of it is permanently flooded and it contains a historic industrial building. But it may not be there much longer. From the Harborough FM site: Revised plans have been handed in to transform a long-standing derelict site in Market Harborough. Developers have amended their proposed scheme for flats on the corner of St Mary's Road and Kettering Road, reducing the number from 79 to 70, with basement parking. They also want to convert the historic former flour mill on the site into four flats.
A story in the Shropshire Star gives me a chance to big up one of my favourite obscure museums. Land of Lost Content, which occupies the former market hall in Craven Arms, is to open throughout December. Its owner and curator Stella Mitchell told the Star that, like many other small businesses throughout Shropshire, her museum of British popular culture needs the support of local communities and tourists in order to survive. She said: "We have been operating on a booking system so we thought we might as well do that throughout this month. "It's hard to say if we'll ...
From a small group that gathered in Bournemouth at Conference in September 2019, I am delighted to say that in a year on marked with a pandemic and all the troubles that this has brought, the first AGM of a new Irish caucus within the Liberal Democrats will be next Monday, 7th December 2020 at 7pm. We have two very special guest speakers joining us - Stephen Farry MP from the Alliance Party to speak on his work in Parliament over the last year, and Gerald Angley, Irish Deputy Ambassador to the UK. We look forward to hearing from them ...
Thu 3rd
18:06
Sanctions on Hong Kong human rights abusers work - we must press the Government to use them
2020 has a been a difficult year for people around the world. In Hong Kong, however, the situation has been dangerous for political reasons as much as public health ones. 18 months since demonstrations started against a potential extradition arrangement with China, protests have turned into a struggle for the city's soul. Hundreds of thousands of Hongkongers have taken to the streets, standing against the looming erosion of their freedoms. Protestors in Hong Kong are fighting for exactly the liberal values that we hold dear in our party - democracy, freedom and internationalism - values which the encroaching illiberal regime ...
Current Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake Tono-Bungay, by H.G. Wells Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville Dreamsnake, by Vonda McIntyre Last books finished Painless, by Rich Larson The Time Invariance of Snow, by E. Lily Yu Blood is Another Word for Hunger, by Rivers Solomon More Real Than Him, by Silvia Park The Inside of the Cup, by the other Winston S. Churchill Terms of Endearment, by Larry McMurtry After Me Comes the Flood, by Sarah Perry Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle "The Persistence of Vision" by John Varley Next books The Company Articles of Edward Teach/Angaelien Apocalypse, by ...
Thu 3rd
15:01
Live Test of New Operation Brock Barrier Deployment on M20 [Spoiler: Contains Motorway Closures in D...
[IMG: Operation Stack / lorries] Plans to keep traffic moving in Kent in the event of cross-Channel disruption will undergo a live test next week. Highways England and its partners in the Kent Resilience Forum will carry out a live test to mobilise a moveable barrier system on a section of the M20 from Friday 11 December. It will mean that parts of the motorway are closed between Maidstone and Ashford for four nights, with signed diversions in place. The barrier will be used to create a new layout with a contraflow system. Once deployed, this will allow traffic to ...
[IMG: Money ()] I want to update you on the new arrangements for the COVID business grants that Folkestone & Hythe District Council has been tasked to administrate by the Government, as national lockdown ends and our district faces Tier 3 restrictions. There will continue to be a Local Restrictions Support Grant (LSRG) scheme for businesses that ARE legally required to close under the Tier 3 restrictions. All businesses that are eligible for a grant through this scheme will be directly contacted and informed about the process by our Business Rates team. In addition, there will continue to be an ...
Aside from being untrue, Matt Hancock's comments about the coronavirus vaccine are very dangerous: The UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the UK was able to speed up the process of approving the Pfizer vaccine because of Brexit. @BBCRealityCheck says that the UK was first 'has got nothing directly to do with Brexit'. This video has more. https://t.co/lCsw6rITOz pic.twitter.com/dSsA3PaXUa — Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) December 2, 2020
The owner of the Tern Inn and car park off Heron Way has submitted a new planning application for the car park area. The proposal is to build a convenience store - likely to be CO-OP - with 5 flats above, one 2 bed and four 1 bed. The building would be along the side of the car park next to Heron Way. The pub would be retained. The plans show that there would be 41 spaces in the car park - around the existing capacity. Out of the 41 there would be 1 disability space and 5 spaces for ...
I tend to mistrust books whose title one can't really understand without reading the book itself. So I opened Sa'ed Atshan's Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, £22.99) with a degree of trepidation. As a student of the MENA region, with a special interest in Israel/Palestine, I knew the core subject [...]
The Guardian reports that the government has been accused of "completely unnecessary secrecy" after refusing to say which companies have been awarded multimillion-pound Covid-19 contracts after being processed in a high-priority channel for firms with political connections. The paper refers to a report by the National Audit Office last month which stated that a government unit, set up to procure PPE, established the high-priority lane to deal with leads that came "from government officials, ministers' offices, MPs and members of the House of Lords, senior NHS staff and other health professionals". They say the 493 companies given high priority due ...
In reading this report, you may notice a certain similarity with previous reports. That is deliberate and, I hope, welcome.
Wed, 12:56: RT @damienrobi: PUMP UP THE JAM - Technotronic Après des heures d'enregistrement, j'ai finalement eu une prise sans erreur, mais c'est auss... Wed, 14:59: Skeletons on the Zahara, King W Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War, Hodges Endgame in the W Sahara, Shelley W Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate, Jensen #nwbooks https://t.co/K0BO3M46fH https://t.co/0IYwsVY7e5 https://t.co/mLfi2xzb49 https://t.co/D383aTCF4H https://t.co/Sgd7R4holH https://t.co/gUIGbceaiI Wed, 15:28: The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink A fifteen-year-old German boy has a love affair with a woman twenty years older, in the early 1960s; years later, he finds himself observing her trial for war crimes. #nwbooks https://t.co/UjShoMIIF3 https://t.co/l0wr53c2Um https://t.co/h6Jwkxf7bG ...
Well this had completely passed me by and it was a photo displayed on Flickr yesterday which caught my eye and made me find out more. Here's a couple of links to this marvellous project:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22051441 www.northwestmeccano.co.uk/Giant%20Bridge.html The pedestrian bridge is close to the Nob End/Prestolee flight of locks on the Manchester, Bury and Bolton Canal which is presently undergoing restoration. As a Trustee of the Maghull based Frank Hornby Trust which runs the Frank Hornby Experience exhibition within the Town's Meadows Leisure Centre I've been delighted to learn of this wonderful piece of scaled up Meccano artwork, if belatedly. ...
i) births and deaths 3 December 1928: birth of Gerald Blake, director of The Abominable Snowmen (Second Doctor, 1967) and The Invasion of Time (Fourth Doctor, 1978). 3 December 2019: death of Donald Tosh, script editor in 1965-66, author of "Bell of Doom", fourth episode of the story we now call The Massacre (First Doctor, 1966). ii) broadcast anniversaries 3 December 1966: broadcast of fifth episode of The Power of the Daleks. Lesterson realises what the Daleks are up to; the rebels kill the governor; and the Daleks "CON-QUER AND DE-STROY"! 3 December 1977: broadcast of second episode of The ...
While all the attention was on students who were due to take their A Levels or GCSEs last summer, I was more concerned about those who will be taking their GCSEs in 2021. They are younger than A Level students, and most have not yet fully developed the skills of self-directed study, so still need a high level of teacher input and support. The two years leading up to their exams next year will have been seriously disrupted. In Year 10 they were learning at home from March to July, and we are all aware of the huge disparities that ...
I have welcomed a commitment by Dundee City Council to ensure a redesign of the Lochee Road junctions at Polepark Road and Dudhope Terrace is undertaken, something I have long called for. This would help to make improvements in air quality in an area of significant air quality concern. As residents know, I have long campaigned on air quality issues, particularly in relation to Lochee Road, where, as recently as January 2020, I again highlighted my deep concern that, yet again, Friends of the Earth had highlighted air quality concerns in Lochee Road in its Scotland's most polluted streets survey ...
