United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) reconnaissance aircraft flew hundreds of sorties over England during the Second World War. The Historic England Archive holds a USAAF collection of over 20,000 photographs that records airfields, military bases, towns and countryside in England between 1943 and 1944. Today Historic England made over 3600 of these photographs available on its website, together with a clickable map and some background material on the USAAF collection. The photograph here shows Market Harborough and Little Bowden, with south at the top. The striking thing is how few of the roads to the north of the town ...
In this article in Sunday's "Observer" (13th August 2023). . . . . . Will Hutton plays the role of the little boy in the Hans Anderson fairy-tale who points out that the emperor has no clothes. The facts Hutton enumerates come as no surprise to those of us who follow the course of Britain's economy but they give a concise picture of the UK's current economic situation which is dramatically different for that the Tories, their sycophantic think-tanks and supportive press try to paint. Here's a summary (with any additional comments of my own in brackets). Unlike in ...
If i'm out and about with my husband and we hold hands, nobody bats an eyelid. If we see something that makes us laugh, we can look at each other and have a hug, we can o so without being hassled. If he is meeting me off the train, I can rush up and give him a kiss. We can be pretty much as spontaneous as we like. The stabbing outside The Two Brewers in Clapham on Sunday night, which is being treated as a homophobic incident, shows that not everyone can take the simple act of being out and ...
Embed from Getty ImagesDuring the Somerton and Frome by-election campaign Sarah Dyke and Ed Davey visited Burrow Hill Cider Farm and listened to the concerns of its owners. It must have been a memorable visit because the two have written to Jeremy Hunt calling on him to cancel a planned tax increase on cider. Somerset Live explains: Somerset cider farmers are facing a crisis following the introduction of a tax hike on their products which could wipe out thousands of jobs and acres of orchards. ... From August 1, the cider industry is facing a hammer blow tax hike, the ...
The Whinnies Community Garden in Sunniside has a new area - King Arthur's garden. It was opened by the Mayor, Cllr Eileen McMaster, on 29th July. The video covered the opening ceremony.
That's the question The Guardian recently asked me, and here's my answer: Mediocre fiction is full of caricatured villains whose selfishness means they don't care about people who aren't like them and whose myopia mean they are happy to damn the future. They are great plot fodder for middlebrow fiction, but sadly Sunak seems to think they should also be a role model for being prime minister. Talking up culture wars, claiming to be tough on immigration and finding excuses for pollution is unlikely to work for him, however, as it misunderstands why the Conservatives are polling at the levels ...
As inflation falls to 6.8%, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey appeared on Sky News this morning to give our party's reaction: While it was positive news that prices aren't using quite so fast, he said, but they are rising fast, faster than they are in many other countries and faster than they have for many, many years. Families and pensioners when they go and do their shopping, when they get their energy bill, when they pay their mortgage, their rents, they are still seeing them go up by huge amounts. And what is worrying Liberal Democrats today is that this ...
If ever there was a policy designed to increase street homelessness and begging the latest change by the Home Office is it. The Guardian reports that thousands of refugees and survivors of trafficking could find themselves homeless after a Home Office policy change. They say that until last month, newly recognised refugees and survivors of trafficking had 28 days to find alternative accommodation after receiving a "notice to quit" before being evicted from Home Office accommodation they had lived in while officials were processing their claims - but this has now been reduced to a minimum of seven days. This ...
Last summer, the pavement between Elliot Road and Kelso Steps on the north side of Blackness Road was resurfaced. At that time, residents asked if the remainder of the footpaths in that vicinity would also be resurfaced within a reasonable timescale and we were given assurances at that time that further improvements were planned. We therefore recently asked the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership for an update and have received the following helpful response : "The second phase of the footpath works is indeed still planned for this summer. We only started the Slurry Works a few weeks ago due to ...
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