The Railway Children was released in 1970. In 2010 Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Bernard Cribbins came together for a reunion screening to celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. This is a short extract from their discussion. A bit of Railway Children trivia... In the famous "Daddy, my Daddy!" scene, Cribbens dispatches the train with "Right away, Mr Cryer." That's because the guard was Bob Cryer, a big influence on the reopening of the Keighley and Worth Valley line who later became Labour MP for Keighley and then Bradford South. His wife Ann and son John, who were both to become ...
Labour have chosen Rajesh Agrawal, one of Sadiq Khan's deputy mayors in London, to fight Leicester East at the next general election. This is the seat currently represented by Claudia Webbe as an Independent. She was elected for Labour but removed from the Labour Party after being convicted of harassment. Both Webbe and Keith Vaz, the Labour MP for Leicester East before her, are thought to be considering standing in the constituency as Independents next time round. Today comes the inevitable news that Agrawal has stood down as Sadiq Khan's deputy mayor for business. In the Leicester East selection, Rishi ...
Mon 27th
21:34
'Big demands on our services... less and less money' Watford Mayor Peter Taylor defends local govern...
I suspect not many Liberal Democrat blog readers watch GB news, so although this is now nearly a week old it's still worth posting a link to Watford's excellent Elected Mayor Peter Taylor's interview on the channel from last Tuesday. This blog makes no claim to topicality anyway. Peter rightly highlights the slashing of funding to local government at a time when its services have never been more needed. It was against the background of local authorities facing effective bankruptcy. For what it's worth, although GB News has a terrible reputation among those outside the political right, the interviewing here ...
The first Chelsea game I can remember is the 1967 FA Cup Final, when we lost 2-1 to Spurs. Terry Venables, a former Chelsea favourite, was playing for our opponents. Legend has it that he was in the habit of stopping the Chelsea team in the tunnel after the manager Tommy Docherty's team talk and countermand it with one of his own. Docherty tired of this, sold him and bought Charlie Cooke to be our playmaker instead. But then his mother had told the Chelsea official who came to her house with a contract for the young Venables to sign ...
"Highlighting these cases is vital because they take place day in, day out, in courts up and down the country, and until this year, with the introduction of the pilot, we've not been able to shine a light on this important area of court business." Polly Rippon reports from the normally secretive family courts. Anna Minton says the tide may finally be turning against the demolition of council estates: "Estate regeneration schemes have seen more than 100 of London's council estates demolished and replaced with developments of predominantly luxury apartments, redefining the British capital and fuelling the housing crisis. Communities ...
Love at first was allbut endings are the story;we do not control...
Mon 27th
09:55
Welcome to my day: 27 November 2023 - there's no need to burn down Parliament given what some MPs ar...
I'm visiting Parliament this week, in my capacity as a member of the National Assembly of the National Association of Local Councils, and it looks like I'll be entering something of a controversy. Not me, I hasten to add, or anything to do with the event, but the building itself. For, whilst the building is in an increasingly dangerous state, leading figures in both Houses of Parliament appear determined to delay any decision that would allow the major works needed to be completed in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Indeed, a promised debate on which of two options was to ...
With the Tories in disarray and the public finances in a mess, everybody is naturally looking to see what Labour is going to do if it wins the next election, and in particular whether the party is going to be able to deliver on its promise to pour £28bn a year into its flagship green economic policy. According to the Independent, there are doubts even within the Labour Party itself, with one 'senior party source' suggesting that the current level of government debt is a major obstacle to delivering on the promise: Labour's "green prosperity plan" promised to pour the ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 27 NOVEMBER 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. Lochee Road - give and take for one week from 20 November for street lighting works. Magdalen Yard Road - closed between Bellefield ...
