Last summer Epsom & Ewell Borough Council advertised an organised walk: A walk about the 1919 Epsom riot, the attack on Epsom Police Station and the death of Sergeant Thomas Green. Discover what happened in Epsom during WW1 with its crowded Military Hospitals, camps and large numbers of Canadian soldiers left behind in Woodcote Camp waiting to go home. See how events boiled over out of hand during an incident in a local pub, which led to the infamous riot of 1919, the attack on Epsom Police Station and the death of Sergeant Thomas Green. The walk begins outside the ...
The latest edition of my weekly political polling round-up, The Week in Polls, is out. As it says: Public opinion in reaction to events such as the recent riots often moves on as initial reactions fade and initial information is supplemented. It is also, even when thinking solely of riots, hard to distinguish between those that have long-term impact (think 1981) or those that pass without such a legacy (think 2011). But even with those caveats noted, looking at the hard evidence on where public opinion currently stands is an important counter-balance to the proliferation of exuberant certainty in instant ...
Five minutes fifty-three seconds of the 1951 general election, which brought to an end the much-feted Clement Attlee premiership and saw Winston Churchill return to Downing Street.
United States Weird is the new catchword of the American presidential elections. It is weird that Donald Trump – a convicted felon – is the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States. It is weird that J.D. Vance – an anti-abortionist who claims that America is run by a miserable "bunch of childless cat ladies" – is the Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States. It is weird because both those images sound totally "un-American" and thus unlikely to win the votes of the American electorate. So it is weird that those two men have been ...
This is a note-for-note cover of a song from Traffic's first album by a Scarborough-based band, recorded in 1969. What's interesting about it is the identity of the lead singer of The Mandrakes. It's a 20-year-old Robert Palmer. He was to join The Alan Bown! and then Vinegar Joe before enjoying his greatest success as a solo artist in the Eighties. Like Steve Winwood, the original singer of No Face, No Name and No Number, he was signed to Island Records.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Ludlow Castle on Sunday 18 August before heading to Germany and the Alps
Three generations have watched and been delighted by the classic 1968 British film comedy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is perhaps the world's most famous car. Now a faithful replica is coming to Ludlow to start its near 1,000 mile journey to Switzerland, via Germany and the Alps. The car will be on display outside Ludlow Castle from 10am to 1.30pm on Sunday, 18 August. The following week, it will begin a journey that takes in scenes from the film and ends in Switzerland after a challenging drive over the Alps. Chitty under construction This madcap adventure aims to raise ...
Quite the drop down titles list in the form to sign up to attend the Labour Party annual conference this autumn.
Michael is pictured at the Western Cemetery's west wall where residents have highlighted that the ivy has greatly spread and is now damaging the wall. We contacted environment management at the City Council regarding this and were initially advised by the Service Manager as follows : "I can update that an initial visual inspection has been carried out by the City Engineers. However vegetation is overgrowing on the walls (the roots of this are on private land), which prohibits a full inspection to ascertain and cost remedial works. I will contact the adjacent landowner asking them to remove the vegetation ...
The Observer alleges that a hidden tracking tool in the website for Reform UK collected private browsing data about potentially millions of people, often without consent, and shared it with Facebook for use in targeted advertising. They say that their investigation has found that people visiting the website for Nigel Farage's anti-immigration party had details of their activity captured by a digital surveillance tool known as a Meta pixel: The tracker - active in the run-up to the election, and as recently as last week - was triggered automatically on loading the Reform site, regardless of whether the person gave ...
