I don't remember Sheffield Victoria being open, but I do remember when Sheffield to Huddersfield trains ran via Penistone and passed through the closed station. Paul from Wobbly Runner Exploring is your guide to what remains of it today. Sheffield Victoria was a mainline station opened in 1851 by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, which later became the Great Central Railway. The station closed in 1970, when passenger services over the Woodhead route to Manchester ceased.
Not long now to what promises to be our best ever Conference, with 72 MPs to celebrate! Thousands of members will be gathering in Brighton from 14th to 17th September. If you are going then you need access to two documents, which have now been published: Conference Agenda. This gives the timetable for all the debates and speeches in the Main Auditorium. It has just been published today and you can read it online or download it here. Conference Directory. This lists all the fringe meetings, the training sessions and the exhibition stalls. You can read it online or download ...
Today's Guardian reports that a British arms company has abandoned plans to carry out live fire testing of anti-personnel bombs dropped by drones in the middle of the Flow Country world heritage site. The planned testing ground is owned by the Liberal Democrat peer John Thurso. The paper says: The Flow Country became the first peat bog in the world to be granted world heritage site status by Unesco in July, in recognition of its rarity and its importance to conservation and combating the climate crisis. The bomb tests have now been cancelled after the Guardian told Overwatch that the ...
The recent rioting in England and Belfast, has seen Nigel Farage and Reform trying to use the riots for political purposes to fuel people's prejudices regarding immigration and racial tension within local communities where tensions are already high. Farage is not responsible for the primary causes of the riot as has been suggested, but he should be condemned for using the riots for political purposes and trying to polarize and stigmatize different parts of our community. It could be that Nigel Farage, is trying to emulate Enoch Powell, as has been suggested in Jason Cowley's Reaching for Utopia. I will ...
Three principal authority council by-elections this week, completely with a full slate of Liberal Democrat candidates. That, hooray, is one up on the last time these seats were up. But there's also bad news in the results: This result sees the Liberal Democrats LOSE control of Three Rivers council. Council Now: LDM 19, CON 12, LAB 3, GRN 3, INDs 2. https://t.co/AuKxpp2mZE — Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) August 22, 2024
In February, Dundee City Council Advice Services launched a campaign with Dundee Citizens Advice Bureau and the Brooksbank Centre to maximise the income of as many citizens of Dundee as possible over the state pension age. Since the launch of this campaign, over £1 079 431 has been paid to the citizens of Dundee in different benefits. With the average Pension Credit award being £63.51 per week. The City Council identified and contacted households who might be entitled to Pension Credit and to reach as many people as possible, held several well attended drop-in sessions for people to get a ...
Nation Cymru reports that the latest Welsh NHS performance statistics have been described as 'damning' for new First Minister Eluned Morgan. The site says that the Statistics released today by the Welsh Government on the activity and performance of the Welsh NHS between June and July 2024 have shown a further increase in waiting times across Wales for treatment, taking figures to a record high: Baroness Morgan was appointed Wales' Minister for Health and Social Services in 2021 and replaced Vaughan Gething as First Minister earlier this month. The latest statistics reveal that at least 615,300 patients are currently on ...
