A great video from the Phil in Cornwall account on YouTube, There the blurb explains: There has been a ferry across the River Fal at King Harry Passage for over 500 years. Since 1889 it has been a steam operated ferry running on chains across the river. This video provides a brief glimpse of the ferry in 1948 showing the one that had operated in WW2, along with some of the warships that were laid up in the Fal after the war and finishes with a quick look at the new ferry being used in 1953.
Embargoed budget trail: The Conservatives are the great tax swindlers Welsh Lib Dems accuse Welsh Gov of abandoning rural Wales in final budget debate "Funding our futures"-Welsh Lib Dems demand action on school deficits Welsh Lib Dems call for major culture change in care system Embargoed budget trail: The Conservatives are the great tax swindlers Responding to the Chancellor's embargoed budget trail, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said: The Conservatives are the great tax swindlers after years of hiking them on hardworking families. Rishi Sunak has led the economy into a recession and forced families to pick up ...
In the run-up to a Budget there is usually plenty of speculation about whether the Budget will give the government a bounce, especially if tax cuts are in the air.
More than 1,800 people stuck in hospital Cole-Hamilton: SNP cut £30m from mental health despite missing targets yet again Lib Dems reveal some of the biggest nationalist failures on the international stage Lib Dem Mayoral candidate beats cancer More than 1,800 people stuck in hospital Responding to new Public Health Scotland figures which show 1,860 people were stuck in hospital due to their discharge being delayed, with 57,860 days being spent in hospital by people waiting to be discharged, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said: Amid a chaotic turnover of SNP health secretaries, the Scottish Government has completely ...
Cash strapped Shropshire Council has agreed to start charging for collecting garden and food waste in the green bin. It estimates this will bring in £4 million a year. The cost for the opt-in service is expected to be £52 a year, £1 a week. Many people will think the service worth that much. Others will not want to pay because they think it is not worth the cost, because they only generate a small amount of green and food waste or because they feel they have already paid for the service through their council tax. What is clear is ...
We've now managed to gain access to press releases from our Scottish colleagues, and so, welcome to our newly enhanced press release coverage... Lords Rwanda Bill votes: "Morally bankrupt government" defeated five times Ed Davey visits Chancellor's seat ahead of Budget as GP funding in Surrey slashed by £10 million January the worst month on record for waits over 12 hours at A&E Scot Lib Dems respond as council debt at record levels Lords Rwanda Bill votes: "Morally bankrupt government" defeated five times Responding to the series of five heavy defeats for the government on their Rwanda Bill in the ...
In mid January FCC members were asked to attend an additional meeting, entitled 'Autumn Conference 2024 - strategy'. We had a presentation from HQ and followed by a lengthy discussion about merits or otherwise or cancelling autumn conference. I won't rehearse all the arguments, but in my nine years as a party member I've not left a meeting quite so frustrated. It was reminiscent of council officers telling me at budget time that the sky would fall in if we didn't make savings in a particular area. The sky did not fall in. I do understand the difficulty of having ...
There's a Twitter account that's currently retweeting the whole of Bevis by Richard Jefferies. I thought I knew the book pretty well, but Jefferies has still surprised me. The tweeting has reached the chapter Bevis's Zodiac, which breaks off from the young heroes endless camping and shooting adventures to give an awed description of the night sky. All the stars from Arcturus to Capella came about the elms by the orchard; as Arcturus went down over the place of sunset in autumn, Capella began to shine over another group of elms—in the meadow to the north-east. Capella is sure to ...
Tomorrow, 6th March, Liverpool Council will vote to increase its council tax by just under 5%. Some of the reasons for this are of its own making but far more problems have been caused by a failure of governments to ... Continue reading →
The Conservatives seek to frame pretty much every general election (with the exception of "Get Brexit Done") as Tory tax cuts versus Labour spend. In 1997, Labour sought to avoid this by 'shadowing' Conservative expenditure plans, a trick that Rachel Reeves seems set to repeat in 2024. Hunt's budget is likely to try to set up the same dilemma by offering tax cuts now, funded by unspecified cuts to public expenditure (meaning public services) somewhere down the line, on the assumption that Reeves – rather than he – will be left to implement them. Reeves, however, is too savvy a ...
The Tories like to think of themselves as the party of the countryside, but who knew that they wanted to turn rural England into a tame theme park without any wildlife? This scenario at least comes to mind when reading the comments of the Conservative MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax, who actually stood up in the House of Commons to dismiss calls by animal rights activists and conservation groups to end the badger cull and instead suggested more animals, such as deer and foxes, should also be culled. The Independent reports that Drax had earlier raised the case of ...
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.
