Here's a cutting from the Salisbury Journal nine years ago: The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was at Stonehenge this morning to announce the long awaited £1.1billion tunnel under Stonehenge as part of one of the biggest road building plans in living memory. ... Mr Clegg said: "The A303 as anyone who lives in the South West knows is a very important route and it is blighted by bottlenecks. "The traffic slows to a walk past the stones and we do not just want to rebalance the books we want to rebalance the British economy and that means linking different ...
He is remembered in Britain as the star of 11 Carry On films and, if you really know your stuff, as a pop star of the 1950s who was recorded by George Martin, but there is more to Jim Dale than that. Olivier recruited him to the National Theatre Company, where they acted Shakespeare together. In the US he is a massive Broadway star and famous for his readings of the Harry Potter books. It would be interesting to know why Stephen Fry's versions were not thought suitable for the audiobook market there. Dale was born in 1935 in the ...
Here is the question I think you must answer before formulating a strong opinion on technology and growth: what do you think are the real binding constraints that limit our productive future? Are they labour, technology, energy, food, environmental sustainability, a decent level of security or something else? Professor Richard Jones, a polymath able toContinue reading "Please read Ed Conway's Material World, it is really good"
Shropshire Council's Public Protection team has objected to the licence application from Future Sound to hold up to 15 days of concerts in Ludlow Castle every year. It is not against more events in the castle but wants the number reduced to eight a year. Public Protection have said that "the application for 15 events is excessive would give rise to Public Nuisance". This morning Future Sounds accepted the reduction in the number of days and other conditions. That means that there are no plans for a public hearing into the licence application and it will be approved for eight ...
Recently, the "great and the good" of the Town and Parish Council sector gathered in London for the Star Council Awards, our annual celebration of the work done across England in our sector, and an opportunity to lobby MPs, Peers and, probably most importantly, the Minister, for our key "asks". I was there in my capacity as a member of the National Assembly of the National Association of Local Councils (NALC), and I took the opportunity to ask the new Minister, Simon Hoare, for £1,000,000. Not for me, you understand, although I'd happily carry out some study visits to see ...
As long as I have been in politics the Tory Party has promoted itself as the champions of family values, however if they wish to maintain that pretence then they have to stop splitting families up. The Guardian reports that there is growing anger over the government's "love only for the rich" plans that will force thousands of British families to choose whether to split or go into exile: James Cleverly, the home secretary, announced last week that a British citizen who wants to sponsor their foreign spouse to live with them in the UK will need to earn at ...
With the Government apparently determined to spend what remaining energy it has in victimising the poor, the vulnerable and the different in its remaining time in office, we've all come to expect the worst from any announcement that comes from a minister. And, in fairness, they make no pretence that they're being anything other than what they appear to be. But we're forever hearing about unhappiness on the back benches, and yesterday was no different, with Damian Green writing in the Observer that "the UK's deal with Rwanda must stay within the rule of law". Now you and I might ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 11 DECEMBER 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. Magdalen Yard Road - closed between Bellfield Avenue and Thomson Street for one week commencing Monday 11 December for sewer connection to new ...
