A Doctor Who serial from 1973 has a surprising degree of relevance to the world of 2024, argues Peter Chambers. The Green Death is a serial in series 10 of the classic Doctor Who era, broadcast in 1973. The Doctor was played by Jon Pertwee, and the companion Jo Grant was played by Katy Manning. The serial is often remembered for the generous send-off for Jo is given and is available on iPlayer. Pertwee was the third Doctor, taking over the role in Spearhead from Space. He was exiled to Earth by the writers to save the show money during ...
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The Federal Conference Committee met on Saturday to run through a number of items leading up to the Spring Conference in York, which is being held from 15 to 17 March 2023. We also have an online registration option, which includes streaming of the auditorium and online voting. Just jumping a little ahead as well, the Federal Conference Committee has announced the dates and venues for Autumn Conference. Autumn Conference 14-17 September 2024 to be held in Brighton At our meeting this Saturday we discussed a number of items relating to the upcoming and future conferences, including the agenda selection ...
The Shropshire Star reports: The new Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway Company (WSMR) is proposing to bring back a direct service to and from London in 2025. The plan would see new, daily train services between Wrexham General and London Euston, serving existing rail stations at Gobowen, Shrewsbury, Telford Central, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coleshill Parkway, Nuneaton and Milton Keynes Central. WSMR intends to be an 'open access' train operator which is wholly commercial and does not require government subsidy. And Time Out quotes Helen Morgan, the Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire, welcoming the proposed new service: "One of the main ...
It is getting to the point that the only reason why anybody might want to vote for Labour is because they are not the incompetent shit-show that currently governs us. As for policy differences, many of us are struggling to name any. Labour are in full reverse mode on the £28bn green investment pledge, they are promising no further investment in public services, have ruled out a windfall tax on bank profits, and it would be difficult to insert a fag paper between their tax policies and what we currently have. And now they have even abandoned any pretence at ...
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Wednesday Debate: What do you think of Governments' plans to ban a generation from buying cigarettes...
It's Summer 2049. Peter and his friend Mark are doing their weekly shop in Morrisons. They stop at the cigarette kiosk on the way out. Peter, born on 31 December 2008, shows his compulsory ID card to prove that he is old enough to buy tobacco products. Mark, born just a day later has never been legally allowed to buy them. Instead, he gets them from various sources, including a dodgy bloke down the pub. Every year, he hires a van and hops over to France to fill it up with an unhealthy supply to keep him going for a ...
In June of last year, and again in November, we raised with Royal Mail concerns about gaps in delivery and late delivery of mail in parts of the West End - initially the area around Pitfour Street and later around Forest Park Road. This month, we have received similar concerns from residents about irregular/no delivery of post in Ancrum Drive and concerns that there may be no regular postal delivery worker for this round. We raised this with the Public Affairs Team at Royal Mail HQ who advise that it is "looking in to this as a matter of urgency ...
