As possibly expected, Monday night saw a slightly uncomfortable meeting. A packed agenda saw us adopt our 2021/22 budget and set our precept - we have not raised the band D charge, leaving it at the same £52.27 that it is this year. We declared a Climate Emergency without challenge, and dealt with the rest of the business in our usual efficient manner. Of course, the spectre of Gateway 14 hangs over us still, but until the actual planning application comes in, we're in limbo to a certain extent. However, we did have the application from Poundfield Products to expand ...
Taking a break from smuggling duties in Cornwall, Jago Hazzard looks at the history of this Piccadilly line station. It was threatened with closure in 1929, but today it is so busy that the authorities try to discourage people from using it.
In most elections, the right outspend the Left. This is just a truism, and of no surprise to anyone acquainted with modern politics. In addition, the news media is strongly biased toward right-wing ideas and right-wing politics. In response, the Left reaches for their army of volunteers - doing for free (inspired by Left-wing ideals like equality, freedom and justice) what the right have to pay for. Even in this uneven ground, the Left - through sheer strength of message - can win out against what seem like unbeatable odds. It's this hard work, by many selfless volunteers, that has ...
On Friday night, the Minister for the Constitution and Devolution sent out a letter stating the government's opposition to political parties delivering leaflets via volunteers.
Platoon won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1986, and also three others, Best Director (Oliver Stone), Best Film Editing and Best Sound. Stone lost for Best Original Screenplay and two of the actors lost for Best Supporting Actor to Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters; it was also unsuccessfully nominated for Best Cinematography. That year's Hugo winner, Aliens, got seven Oscar nominations (one fewer than Platoon) and won two (Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects). That year's other Best Picture nominees were Children of a Lesser God, which I have not seen, and Hannah and Her ...
South Gloucestershire Council is lagging behind its neighbours on delivery of electric vehicle charging points. That's... Posted by South Gloucestershire Liberal Democrats on Monday, 18 January 2021
Britain's Conservative government has caused a diplomatic squall by refusing to give the new EU Ambassador to the United Kingdom full diplomatic privileges. The man concerned is one of the most senior members of the European External Action Service, João Vale de Almeida, having already served as Ambassador to Washington and to the United Nations. [...]
Yesterday we published a post by Cllr Rabina Khan titled "The danger of anti-vaccine propaganda". Last week Rabina was interviewed by radio interview on the Vanessa Feltz Show about the same subject. Well worth listening to.
Fri, 12:38: Great thread explaining high points of today's excellent @FT article on Brexit. https://t.co/tUtaAdCcBw Fri, 12:56: What Mars sounds like, and the rover's welcome party https://t.co/vXvkJ9O92S Wow. Fri, 16:05: TOVE film worldwide: Tove Jansson's first biopic TOVE heading to US https://t.co/J5YBxiJRfW Hooray! Fri, 16:30: Tyrone's Rebellion, by Hiram Morgan I found some very interesting parallels with some of the contemporary conflicts I have dealt with. I was also fascinated by the accounts of information flow. #nwbooks https://t.co/gSwQQQt0CI https://t.co/RSvpUCE6Wj https://t.co/fyKue2cEvS Fri, 17:11: RT @Popehat: Remember VoxDay? Imagine my surprise learning he's a huge Q freak now banning people from his ...
For five years now, those of us opposed to Brexit have been arguing that it will hit ordinary people in their pockets, and each time we have been labelled as scaremongerers and worse. It gives me no satisfaction therefore to point out that this particular prediction has come true. The Independent reports that Britain's online shoppers have expressed their dismay after been hit with unexpectedly high post-Brexit charges on items ordered from countries in the EU. The paper explains that consumers have been asked to pay up to one-third extra in customs duties, VAT and additional delivery charges once they ...
Yesterday afternoon, a letter arrived in the inbox of our chief executive from Chloe Smith, the Cabinet Office Minister. It said in stark terms that the Government was banning volunteer delivery of political material in England. Parties who are rich enough can pay to have their stuff delivered. Some parties are so rich that they can afford to send the same leaflet to a house twice in a week, as the Scottish Tories did to me this week. Last night, Lisa Smart, the Chair of the party's Federal Campaigns and Elections Committee wrote to regional and local chairs saying: This ...
A hugely ambitious plan to green and strengthen Britain's economy in one combined move: that's what Ed Davey set out in an interview with the Green Alliance.
i) births and deaths 23 January 2015: death of Barrie Ingham, who played Alydon in the Cushing!Doctor film Dr Who and the Daleks and Paris in the story we now call The Myth Makers (First Doctor, 1965). ii) broadcast anniversaries 23 January 1965: broadcast of "All Roads Lead to Rome", second episode of the story we now call The Romans. The Doctor and Vicki meet Nero, the Doctor pretending to be the murdered musician Petullian. Barbara is sold as a handmaiden to the Empress, Ian is shipwrecked. 23 January 1971: broadcast of fourth episode of Terror of the Autons. The ...
Ninewells Community Garden has an excellent blog and you can read the latest update - "Take a walk in the park" - here.
Blyth Town Council continue to meet over Zoom. If you wish to observe any of these meetings BTC will send a Zoom link just before he meeting. Tuesday 2nd February, 2:00 pm Community Funding Sub-Committee Tuesday 16th February , 4:30 pm Community Development Committee Thursday 25th February, 4:30 pm Environment Committee
