Second paragraph of third story ("The Legend Trap", by Sean Williams):It's the oldest story in the world. Some dumb kid always wants to put it to the test. "It" could be any number of things. Jumping when the d-mat process starts to see if it makes you taller. Spinning in a circle anticlockwise in the hope of being switched from left to right. Squeezing thirteen people in at once just in case the one with the guiltiest secret disappears.Often when I am auditing my library against the list of books I know I have acquired in a previous year, I ...
On behalf of her family, it is with great sadness that we announce that Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, died peacefully in the early hours of Monday April 12th. Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said: "This is heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family. "Shirley has been an inspiration to millions, a Liberal lion and a true trailblazer. I feel privileged to have known her, listened to her and worked with her. Like so many others, I will miss her terribly. "Political life will be poorer without her intellect, her wisdom and her generosity. ...
We have just learnt the very sad news that Shirley Williams has died, at the age of 90. Ed Davey said: This is heartbreaking for me and for our whole Liberal Democrat family. Shirley has been an inspiration to millions, a Liberal lion and a true trailblazer. I feel privileged to have known her, listened to her and worked with her. Like so many others, I will miss her terribly. Political life will be poorer without her intellect, her wisdom and her generosity. Shirley had a limitless empathy only too rare in politics today; she connected with people, cared about ...
In the elections to take place on 6th May next, the Lib Dems candidates are as follows: Police and Crime Commissioner: Callum James Littlemore Welsh General (Senedd) - in Aberavon: Helen Clarke - in Neath: Iain Clamp Coedffranc Town Council, Coedffranc North ward by-election: Frank Little
Sun, 12:56: Why your 'weak-tie' friendships may mean more than you think https://t.co/7L4lTZx6gw Interesting. Sun, 14:44: RT @adrechsel: Paid a visit to @Pixel_Museum the other day - thanks to @nwbrux for the tip! Had a great time, and they even have both knock... Sun, 14:48: A Report from the After Times https://t.co/6THfjYgxXF by @pennyred. "Normal is never coming back. We've got to be gentle with each other." Sun, 16:05: RT @jomcinerney: Stunning summary of the last year of living with covid. https://t.co/KZ5kaNX9Ks Sun, 19:25: 390 days of plague https://t.co/GiYcF3NYjl Sun, 20:48: RT @GidMK: It is truly bizarre that people who ...
Yesterday, I looked at Bosmere, Gipping Valley, Hartismere, Hoxne and Eye and Stowmarket North and Stowupland. Today, it's time to look at the rest of Mid Suffolk's ten County divisions... Stowmarket South... where to begin? Once Liberal Democrat (1993-2001), lost to Labour in 2001, it became a Conservative/Labour marginal in 2005 when a new Liberal Democrat candidate, Keith Scarff, came third with a respectable 22.4% of the vote. It's probably the most consistently hard fought of all the Mid Suffolk divisions - in 2005, the Conservative candidate won by 130 votes or 2.8%. Keith was back in 2009, losing to ...
There are ninety-two football clubs playing in the English Professional Football League structure and forty-two in the Scottish equivalent. With AFC Wimbledon's return to Plough Lane taking them out of the Kingston and Surbiton constituency boundaries, none of these are currently represented by a Liberal Democrat MP. For those of you interested, the highest ranked football team currently represented by a Liberal Democrat is St Albans City who are sat 5th in the sixth division at the time of writing. This may simply be the nature of football geography in this country, with top professional football teams mainly representing the ...
I have very mixed views about vaccine passports. The government is resisting the idea. Ministers worry about the complexity and potential discrimination, though rather less about the intrusion into civil liberties. But many people I know support the idea if it is the price of getting access to their favourite hostelry, restaurant or entertainment venue. There is even talk of using vaccine passports for shops. With "non-essential" shops and pubs opening across the country and in Ludlow today, I am asking the question - do you support vaccination passports? I don't like the idea of having to show my ID ...
Anybody watching the Prime Minister's performances from one of the devolved nations during the last 18 months will already know this, but at last it is being acknowledged in the UK media a the Guardian reports on the views of Sir Philip Rycroft, who was permanent secretary to the Brexit department until 2019. He has worked with Professor Michael Kenny and researchers from the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, to look at two decades of devolution from inside UK state machinery, concluding that the pandemic has seeded the idea of a prime minister "who speaks ...
i) births and deaths 12 April 1989: death of Gerald Flood, who played Kamelion in 1983 and 1984, and also King John in The King's Demons (1983) ii) broadcast anniversaries 12 April 1969: broadcast of sixth episode of The Space Pirates. Caven is defeated and captured; the Space Pirates are neutralised. 12 April 1975: broadcast of sixth episode of Genesis of the Daleks. The Daleks take over the bunker, killing everyone including (apparently) Davros; but the Thals bury them for centuries. (Intersting that the six episodes of The Space Pirates and Genesis of the Daleks were broadcast on exatly the ...
Another week at Bonkers Hall. I intend to make the diary entries individual posts this time, but apologies in advance if my new caring responsibilities mean they come out in lumps. Anyway, our first entry finds our old friend combing the Bonkers Hall Estate. He doesn't find anything, but it looks much neater when he's finished. Monday Another depressing day searching for the leader of the Liberal Democrats. As no one has seen or heard of Ed Davey for months, I have given orders for a search of the whole Bonkers Estate to be conducted. No stone has been left ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 12 APRIL 2021 Forthcoming Road Works Riverside Drive/Riverside Approach - give/take traffic control from Monday 26 April for 2 weeks for sign replacement works.
Labour raised council tax in Nottinghamshire to fund the police by double any other council tax rise. This is wrong. This video sets out my objections to it and gives my pledges on police funding. See it here. The post Funding The Police first appeared on David Watts.
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