If you are one of the dwindling band of survivors of the 1985 Liberal Party Assembly at the Caird Hall in Dundee, then this is where your programme was mailed from. It used to be the post office for the Leicestershire village of Foxton, and that was where the assembly was organised from - in two semi-converted narrow boats, naturally. This afternoon I went for a short walk along the canal from Foxton to Debdale Wharf and then along a glorified farm track to Smeeton Westerby. Incidentally, the King's Head at Smeeton is in new hands, well stocked with Langton ...
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner's book, How Big Things Get Done, is, according to the cover, all about project management – what makes projects take too long, cost too much and deliver too little. Inside, the examples are drawn very heavily from big construction projects, and the occasional small construction project, including a cursed kitchen renovation. The grim list of typical cost overruns in Appendix A is all nearly about construction, for example. Which leaves hanging how applicable the book's advice is to other sorts of projects, particularly the well-argued case made that 'bespoke' or 'innovative' should be words of ...
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The Mirror reports that figures, quietly slipped out while MPs are away from Westminster, have revealed that the badger cull death toll has passed 200,000, laying bare the extent of the decade-long killing programme aimed at curbing bovine tuberculosis. They add that a report by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs revealed 33,627 of the creatures were slaughtered last year: Added to the 174,517 killed since 2013 under efforts to curb the spread of tuberculosis in cattle, it takes the total number of badgers culled in the decade-long programme to 208,144. Badger Trust executive director Peter Hambly said: ...
In case you missed it yesterday, here is our latest PPB, supporting the local election campaign: Every vote for the Liberal Democrats counts. It's a vote to elect a strong local champion, someone who will fight for your community and your family. pic.twitter.com/uAfnDMxQ8p — Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) April 6, 2023 * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
Michael is pictured at the Victoria Park tennis courts where, despite being refurbished in the fairly recent past, the courts' surface, particularly at the western end, has begun to suffer as a result of falling debris from the surrounding trees. We therefore asked environment management to have the courts properly swept to ensure all are in a useable condition. We had a helpful response from an environment manager as follows : "We will have this looked at and dealt with."
