The next edition of eFocus for Low Fell was published this afternoon. Issues covered include:Gateshead Leisure Centre threatened with closure by CouncilMeanwhile, Newcastle plans to open new Leisure Centre!Petition calling for locking Kells Lane park at night submittedOrganised displays for bonfire nightGateshead Lib Dems lead call for tax fairnessShop refused alcohol licenceYou can read eFocus
Last Thursday's Melvin Bragg programme "In our Time" on Radio 4 discussed the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. You can listen to it at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001df48.* It is very interesting: among other things I learnt that Owen was not just a gifted poet, but also a good soldier - a crack shot ( still called musketry in those days.) The discussion referred to his poem "Disabled" with which I was not familiar. Here it is. Disabled By Wilfred Owen He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at ...
There's been a bundle of good news at the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference this weekend, including: Fab that the very first thing I heard @agcolehamilton talk about at #sldconf was plans to further improve the diversity of our party — Mark Pack [IMG: 🔶] (@markpack) October 29, 2022
Fri, 12:56: A ceasefire would condemn millions of Ukrainians to Russian occupation https://t.co/4q3uzhKxkL Precisely. Fri, 14:50: https://t.co/yRlz3qRTgL https://t.co/0O1ptM0uui Fri, 16:00: RT @bbcdoctorwho: Remembering Ian Marter, who played the Fourth Doctor's friend Harry Sullivan, on his birthday 🕯 https://t.co/w13Prr8YPr Fri, 16:05: Floods in South Sudan https://t.co/yTubbdyHGy A vivid and grim visual explainer of the effect of climate change on the world's newest country. Fri, 17:11: RT @who_fx: This is what the Patrick Troughton era looked like in 1981. We've come a long way since then. 23 recovered episodes and ten sto... Fri, 19:49: Complete Short Stories: the 1950s, by Brian�Aldiss https://t.co/GkeidUcZbO ...
When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. So goes the ancient proverb of Kenya's Kikuyu tribe. And at the moment, the adage is particularly apt. The war in Ukraine is creating an energy and food crisis. This is combined with the effects of climate change, recession and the continuing effects of the Covid pandemic. The world is in the thick of a perfect political and economic storm of global proportions. Within the developed world, allies are starting to bicker as rich countries use their buying power to outbid their less well-off neighbours in order to hoard dwindling ...
There's another family-friendly fun bike ride on today - and the last Saturday of every month. Meet-up at Lochee Park's playpark at 1pm - all welcome!
