A big thank you to the volunteers from Planting Up Sunniside who recently placed the poppies on the street signs and lamp posts along the main road through Sunniside and Streetgate. They are certainly getting noticed!
HSBC profits: Govt cut taxes for big banks over protecting people's mortgages Reynolds: Number 10 Culture of Chaos laid bare HSBC profits: Govt cut taxes for big banks over protecting people's mortgages Responding to HSBC announcing it made quarterly profits of £6.35 billion, boosted by higher interest rates, and more than double what they were through the same period last year, Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney MP said: It was the Conservative party's economic vandalism that crashed the economy and now the big banks are raking in massive profits off the back of working people's spiralling mortgage payments. To ...
In recent weeks there has naturally been what I'll diplomatically call a lot of talk about "Free Palestine". Most of this rhetoric is quite clear in one thing: Palestine must be free from Israel. But, aside from that, there is no clear narrative around what a Free Palestine would look like, what it would mean in practical terms for Palestinians, Israelis and geopolitics, or what kind of Palestinian state is being advocated. The complete absence of any clear vision for Palestine means it's very difficult to know what is being called for, other than an end to the status quo ...
You can search the Internet Movie Database - IMDb - for actors who were born or died in a particular place. Look for deaths in Market Harborough and you will find a member of Showaddywaddy, a lady who filmed an exotic dance before marrying a Conservative MP, and Susan Shentall. Shentall made only one film, but in it she played Juliet to Laurence Harvey's Romeo. This was in a 1954 adaptation of Shakespeare's play directed by the Italian Renato Castellani. You can see the trailer above, and the whole film is on YouTube. Most of the publicity about Shentall at ...
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another Monday. It's a quiet week at Westminster, as we await what is likely to be the last King's Speech before the General Election. In terms of content, I suspect that we'll see more "culture war" legislation proposals but what will say a lot is any legislation which smacks of "sowing the ground with salt" – actions proposed to limit the actions of an incoming Labour government. Given the Government's actions to make the completion of HS2 "difficult" if not impossible, it isn't hard to envisage similar acts of "legislative vandalism". It's just another ...
Scenes like this are far too common in a Country which is content to pour large sums into landlords many of whom are of low quality and only interested in maximising profit from suffering Three factors are pushing the housing ... Continue reading →
The Greens in Gateshead hope to emulate the "success" of their party nationally by winning council seats here. Up to now they have had one target seat (Crawcrook and Greenside) but have failed to win it (though they were modestly close to victory in May this year. The Greens' attention however may be expanding from their not-quite-a-toe-hold single target ward. They have just put out a leaflet
New analysis reveals 76% of burglaries and 77% of car thefts went unsolved in the year to June 2023 5,916 crimes are going unsolved every day, up 10% compared to last year Lib Dems accuse Home Secretary of being "asleep at the wheel" as thousands of criminals are let off the hook New analysis from the Liberal Democrats of Home Office statistics has shown the shocking extent of rising burglaries, car thefts and other crimes going unsolved under this Conservative government. A staggering 214,076 burglaries went unsolved across England and Wales in the year ending June 2023 – up 6% ...
The Guardian reports on the findings of the Institute for Government's annual report on the state of public services. They say that Britain's public services are performing worse than before the pandemic, much worse than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010 and are stuck in a "doom loop" of recurring crises as a result of ministers' short-term policymaking: Warning that the "consequences of successive governments' short-term policymaking" were coming home to roost, the IfG said that "public services that have for years been creaking are now crumbling". The thinktank said decades of capital underinvestment, combined with funding cuts ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2023 Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until May 2024 for construction works. Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development. Commencing Tuesday 22 August 2023 for 15 months. Forthcoming Roadworks Greenmarket (Greenmarket leading to rear of station) - closed from 8.00am on Sunday 12 November to 6.00am on Monday 13 November ...
