I had dozed off with the TV on a high-numbered channel and woke up a little way into this. You can imagine my confusion. What was I seeing? If I say it's nothing like a usual episode of On the Buses, many readers will be delighted. But maybe we shouldn't be so surprised to find the show encompassing a tutorial on Edwardian trade union law. Because there were remarkable links between ITV situation comedy and Joan Littlewood's radical and experimental Theatre Royal at Stratford East. Earlier today I watched Sparrows Can't Sing, a 1963 film about social change in the ...
"Give or take the odd percentage point, and Sir John tries to persuade the media not to sensationalise small, meaningless poll movements, Labour has a solid lead of around 20 per cent over their Tory rivals. ... Parties in Downing Street during lockdown and the disastrous 49-day Truss premiership helped make up a lot of minds and the electorate don't show any signs of forgetting or forgiving." John Curtice sees no signs of a Conservative revival in time for the next election. John Jewell looks at three key moments in the phone-hacking scandal and at what happens next. Mark Gatiss ...
The Guardian highlights the danger posed to local communities by around 350 disused coal tips in the Welsh valleys, some of whom are showing signs of movement, amid fears that we might be facing another Aberfan. The paper says that the issue of what to do about Wales's 2,500 disused coal tips is back on the political agenda after the Labour-led Welsh government published maps pinpointing 350 situated close to homes and communities that it fears could put people at risk in the event of a landslip. They add that of those more hazardous ones, 79 are in Rhondda Cynon ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 25 DECEMBER 2023 Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed from 27 November 2023 for 6 months for road safety concerns. 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. Riverside Drive ...
