Writing about Leicester's Willow Brook, I promised to tell you more about Leicester Belgrave Road station. This was the Great Northern Railway's terminus in the city. Though regular passenger business never amounted to much, Belgrave Road was famous for the holiday trains that left there for Skegness and other East Coast resorts. These lasted until 1962, and the last freight train ran in 1969. This was when the oil depot at Belgrave Road closed - a link with the Midland main line had been put in so trains could reach it from there and the rest of the GNR line ...
This week The Searching Beak of Emu goes into road safety. Meanwhile, the Bristol Post wins our Headline of the Day Award.
I've been saying since January that rainfall is greatly reduced this year. Normally in January I am plodding around in mud up to my ankles but the start of the year was damp but not as wet as we would normally expect. Every month since then, rainfall has been minimal, and for many weeks at a time, non-existent. Some areas of the country are now facing drought restrictions but we all now need to
If you can't beat them, imitate them. Is that to become the new motto of the failing Conservative Party? Or should I say flailing party because it's leaders and members are hitting out at everyone while disregarding their own failures to their party and the country and the world. With local elections coming up in many parts of the country next May, a Tory councillor has been giving advice on how to get elected. Much of the advice could have come from Paddy Ashdown. Correction. Much of the advice does come from Paddy Ashdown. In an extraordinary fess up that ...
The NHS is in an unparalleled crisis and the whole system seems at the edge of breakdown. Everything from care primary from ambulances, A&Es, staffing of hospitals, through to discharge to care is in crisis. Yet, the NHS is being almost ignored in the leadership debate and by the zombie government. Last night, ITV news ran a short item on the crisis ahead of tonight's report on the crisis on Tonight (ITV 8.30pm). Ed Davey said the item was "hard to watch": The heartbreak and the chaos the Conservatives have caused in our NHS is hurting patients, nurses and doctors ...
The SNP Conference in October is proposing a new tax on whisky, to "mitigate the impact of this cost of living crisis". The Scottish whisky trade is one of our biggest assets in Scotland, with exports of £4.51bn in 2021. To Moray, whisky is a key part of the barrel in our local economy. You don't need to look far to see a distillery across our area, with Moray Council listing 16 across the region. The motion has been penned by the Glasgow Southside branch of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon's own local branch! How can a Scottish First Minister not ...
So, at 10.30 today the Mazars report on the Liverpool Council electricity purchasing debacle was published. I spent the afternoon yesterday talking about it although the Government only let the press see it in advance. However, I already knew enough ... Continue reading →
Congratulations to Munira for being shortlisted in the public service or campaigner category of the 2022 Ethnicity Awards. She faces stiff competition. You can vote for her here. The citation reads: Liberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson has been serving as the Lib Dem Spokesperson for Education since 2021, using her political platform to campaign against violence, advocate for mental health services, and speak out on behalf of refugee rights. Her own mother fled her homeland of Zanzibar during the revolution, becoming stateless. Munira stated that 'I couldn't have become an MP without their hard work and I don't see why ...
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Somehow, we all knew that Boris Johnson's promises about levelling up were all nonsense. No, actually, they were pretty obviously complete bollocks, but somehow enough people believed them to get him a swath of Tory MPs in red wall seats. Now, a study by the thinktank IPPR North has unearthed figures that show that the gap in public spending between London and the North has doubled since Boris Johnson came to power, despite his pledge to "level up" the country. MSN reports that the capital has surged ahead of England's poorest region in terms of cash handed out by the ...
Newshound has never been a fan of zombie films. Far too scary for a hound that failed an audition for Hound of the Baskervilles for being too nice. But as Sarah Olney says, we now have a zombie government and that's very, very scary. Responding to a listener on LBC asking who was running the country during the leadership contest, Olney said: "What we are seeing is a really zombie government. With all sorts of crises occurring over the last few weeks" with queues at Dover, rail strikes, record temperatures, fuel prices, the cost of living crisis and a rapidly ...
OPSTA Response to LCR Local Transport Plan Consultation OPSTA logo I've been a member of OPSTA (Ormskirk, Preston and Southport Travellers Assn for more years than I care to mention because they consistently campaign for improved local rail services. Here's their submission to the Liverpool City Region which has been running a consultation process about the future of local transport:- 'This submission is on behalf of the Ormskirk Preston and Southport Travellers' Association (OPSTA) a non political group that uses an evidence-based approach to campaign for improved public transport in the north of the City Region and south-west Lancashire. We ...
Residents will recall that we highlighted some time ago that, although real time bus information is working at bus shelters, paper timetables have been out of date since the bus companies altered services at the start of the COVID-19 health emergency. This has dragged on far too long. The City Council has maintained the position that 'instability' in the bus network has made providing new timetables at bus stops difficult, but we are have now been advised by the council's Team Leader, Parking & Sustainable Transport as follows : "We are targeting the timetable information to be ready for display ...
