I am writing in both a personal and professional capacity urging you to support the Tobacco and Vapes Bill due for second reading tomorrow. As a Liberal Democrat Councillor in Hull, I am the Portfolio Holder for Adult Services and Public Health and have responsibility for reducing smoking in a part of the country with some of the highest rates, with 500 people every year dying from smoking related illness. The impact is profound in a low-income community like Hull, and the cost to our local economy is around £390 million a year. I am an ex-smoker. I worked as ...
I posted this video on Liberal England a decade ago: it's so good I should repost it every six months. Melton Mowbray North was the town's station on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint line. From it you could catch a direct train to Market Harborough and on to Northampton. The Joint line carried lots of freight, notably iron ore destined for the steel plants of South Wales. Regular passenger services were withdrawn 1953 - I once quoted John Baldock MP mourning them in the Commons - though summer specials from Leicester Belgrave Road to the East ...
This morning, Laura Tarling the post offices External Affairs Manager, South of England & Wales sent me an email apologising for the short notice closures and intermittent services at Tower Street post office. Staffing and recruitment problems lie at the heart of the problems. The post office has ended digital passport and driving licence renewal transactions because of "poor wireless connectivity". I am puzzled by this explanation as gigabyte internet connectivity is available across Ludlow, though it does require investment in a connection. Passport renewals can be completed on paper at Tower Street. Driving licence renewals are no longer available. ...
I woke up this morning to confident assertions by Tory politicians and the unquestioning affirmation of BBC journalists, that the government's Rwanda bill is going to pass into law this week and that the first flights would be taking off within a month. My first reaction to this was 'not if the House of Lords have any say in the matter' and then I remmembered that prolonged ping pong between the two Houses of Parliament depends on peers not losing their nerve and that, in turn, relies on Labour being prepared to do what they haven't been willing to countenance ...
With the end of another, rather interesting, quarter, another update to PollBase, my database of British voting intention opinion polls since 1943 is now up. This time, as well as another quarter of polls and other minor updates and corrections, the update includes yet more additional leader and government approval data from Gallup as well as all the Stonehaven MRPs for this Parliament. Thank you to Will Jennings for providing much of the data being used. Enjoy! P.S. For the very latest polls, see my polling scorecard and for the history of polls, how to spot the good from the ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 15 APRIL 2024 Cleghorn Street (Rosebery Street to City Road) - closed from Friday 12 April for one week for Scottish Water work. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until 27 May 2024 for road safety concerns. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until June 2024 for construction works. 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 ...
