On Friday 27th October, the funeral of Doreen Boyes took place at Mountsett Crematorium. Doreen had been Lib Dem councillor for Pelaw and Heworth in Gateshead from 2001 to 2011. This was our opportunity to say thank you for her work for both her constituents and the party. I particularly liked the bell and the card handed out to each of us. "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."
In Gateshead, cardboard, plastic, bottles and cans are collected fortnightly. This waste goes mixed into a wheelie bin. But the waste then needs to be separated out. This is done at a resource extraction plant in Middlesbrough. I visited the plant recently and filmed the process of separating out and baling the different materials.
This is fun and a bit scary. We follow the last mile or so of the River Leen as it flows under canal and railway to join the Trent. You can support these Trekking Exploration videos and get access to some more content by joining the channel.
Embed from Getty ImagesNo, we've not been invaded. This story appeared in the Aberdeen Press and Journal on 14 September 1933: English Schoolboy Assaulted Nazi Attack Because He Did Not Salute An English schoolboy, J. R. K. Preedv, Market Harborough, last night, in London', told remarkable story of an experience had in Germany on August 31 when Nazis brutally assaulted him because he did not salute Hitler's standard. 1 was walking with some German friends along the Stresemannstrasse in Berlin, and met a column of Hitler's Jugend (young men), he said. On each side of them on the pavement were ...
We earn money and we spend it. But our ability to earn money and our need to spend it aren't always particularly well aligned. By setting aside some of the money we earn, we're creating a financial buffer. We're sacrificing our immediate desires in favour of our future needs. And it's important that we do so. We earn money in a broadly linear way. We have a standard weekly wage or annual salary that, in most cases, stays pretty much the same until we get our next promotion or pay rise. But our expenditure isn't always so linear. Or so ...
Andrew Page asks what a 'free Palestine' would look like: "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 (which can be a useful start with any protest). But it matters because there are competing visions out there, with very different ideas of what a future Palestinian state should be." British police are testing women for abortion drugs and requesting data from menstrual tracking apps after unexplained pregnancy losses, reports Phoebe Davis. "Believing in free speech is easy; practicing it is ...
In some ways I am not surprised by the revelation in today's Independent that one of Boris Johnson's key aides turned messages to "disappear" in a key Covid WhatsApp group only weeks after the ex-PM promised a Covid public inquiry. The level of chaos and incompetence that surrounded Johnson's regime was so great that anything was possible. And that is before we even consider the blatant profiteering associated with the government's VIP procurement lane, in which many friends and associates of Tory MPs won multi-million pound contracts. The paper says that Martin Reynolds was grilled by the covid inquiry about ...
Christine Jardine uses her Scotsman column this week to write about the awful shooting in Maine last week and the culture in the US which allows these tragedies to occur on an all to regular basis. She described a trip to an American supermarket 7 years ago Walking into a general store and seeing rifles on open display along one wall stopped me in my tracks. In a small town in Virginia, with the cool, laid-back vibe of a Happy Days episode, lethal weapons were on sale alongside the fruit and veg. uddenly small-town America seemed a very strange and ...
Fraser's weekly ward surgeries take place later today and every Tuesday during school term time. They are as follows : Tuesdays at 5pm prompt - Blackness Library Tuesdays at 5.45pm prompt - Ancrum Road Primary School All residents welcome - no appointment necessary.
