Over to the Save Ham Lands and River site: Thames Water has outlined a scheme that would involve digging a tunnel to convey treated sewage from Mogden Sewage Works, via Twickenham, in a line that will lie under Ham Lands to the discharge location on the Surrey side of the River in the North Kingston/Ham part of Ham Lands and associated local nature conservation area. Up to six construction sites each requiring an area of size of half a football pitch will be required for tunnel shafts. A total area of 3 to 4 acres. And here is Sarah Olney, ...
A doubly unusual contest to kick off this week's principal authority council by-elections: a Wednesday contest, and one that produced a Conservative gain from the Greens: (This is a Multi-Member ward, with all 3 councillors elected in May 2023. The outgoing Green councillor placed 3rd, behind an Independent and a Conservative, hence why the % changes don't appear to correlate with the outcome). — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) September 7, 2023
ITV News wins our Headline of the Day Award. The judges also commended the post it quoted from the Facebook page of the Seaside Café at the North Sea Observatory: If anyone heard the mass of police sirens in Chapel St Leonards at 9.30pm last night then please be reassured... They were on their way to the Observatory after someone had reported a mass killing in our building, having seen several people laying on the floor... which actually turned out to be the yoga class in meditation. Thank you to Lincolnshire Police for their prompt response. I can't imagine for ...
Julian Brazil South Hams is a rural district neighbouring the port city of Plymouth on the south coast of Devon. With a resident population nearing 90,000, it is also a magnet for holidaymakers and second homeowners, owing to tourist hotspots such as Salcombe and Dartmouth. For almost a quarter of a century, the Conservatives enjoyed uninterrupted control of South Hams District Council. That was until May's local elections when the Liberal Democrats were elected to power for the first time in the district's history. We achieved this off the back of a manifesto pledging to put partnership with the local ...
When I was in Year 5, Jamie Oliver confiscated our turkey twizzlers and re-vamped school dinners to stop us from getting fat. We learned about the food pyramid, about good fats and bad fats, and about the importance of a balanced diet. PE was compulsory and we learned about calories, kinetic energy, how to exercise safely. In PSHE we learned that around one in three cigarette smokers will die from smoking. We learned how harmful alcohol was for both physical and mental health. We had Talk To Frank, a government service which gave us the low-down on all the dangers ...
There are times when it seems that the only pitch from Keir Starmer's policy-lite Labour Party is that they are not the Tories. Not only have they watered down their green investment plan, ruled out any more capital investment in other infrastructure projects and said that they will not increase tax, but they are refusing to countenance even a modest wealth tax. How exactly are they going to meet expectations when they come into government? It could be a very short honeymoon period. The Independent reports that the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called for a national ...
Another Conservative MP has resigned this morning. Chris Pincher, MP for Tamworth, was suspended some time ago for groping two men, and he has just lost his appeal against suspension. He had previously said that he would step down at the next General Election but he now says he is resigning immediately. Assuming he is not doing a Dorries, we could be looking at a double by-election on 19th October, which has now, at last, been set as the date for the Mid Bedfordshire contest. * Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor ...
This is the question Isabel Hardman poses at the beginning of her review of Chris Bryant's new book, Code of Conduct: why we need to fix Parliament - and how to do it. Hardman's own book, Why we get the Wrong Politicians (first published in 2018 and updated for a paperback edition in 2022) had already covered much of the same ground - on the 'toxic culture' of Westminster politics, the power of the whips over individual MPs, the neglect of parliamentary scrutiny of government legislation and decisions in favour of efforts to become ministers, and above all the strains ...
Michael's surgeries take place today and every Thursday during school term time. They are as follows : Thursdays at 5.45pm prompt - West End Campus (come to reception area of St Joseph's RC and Victoria Park Primary Schools) Thursdays at 6.30pm prompt - Harris Academy reception area All welcome - no appointment necessary!
