"As just one of a handful of MPs known to have grown up in care, I am hugely conscious of just how fortunate I have been on my journey. Fortunate because I had fantastic foster parents who then adopted me, and who always encouraged me in education and supported my aspirations. And fortunate because my experience has been so different from that of so many other care-experienced children and young people."Darren Paffey says that care-experienced children and young people are too often written off before they even take their first steps into adulthood. Edward Henry KC talks to Legal Business: ...
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The Lottery buried at East Langton is not the winner of the first Grand National but a hunter owned ...
I am reading John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, which is an earlier story about Kay Harker from The Box of Delights. Here Kay is tangling with his governess Sylvia Daisy Pouncer, who is also a witch and an acolyte of the villainous Abner Brown. Early in the book, Masefield mentions "that famous horse Lottery at various stages of the steeplechase, the prints of which hung in the study". This name leapt out at me, because I once came across what Thoroughbred Heritage says is a monument to Lottery just outside the village of East Langton. I set out to photograph ...
Last night, reports HFM News, eight fire crews fought a blaze at the former Nagarjuna Buddhist Centre in Kelmarsh. The main house's roof was destroyed, but the fire did not spread to the newer buildings next to it. One of those newer buildings housed the World Peace Cafe, where I once had lunch. The cafe closed a few years ago when the Buddhists relocated to the more attractive Thornby Hall. The main house was originally Kelmarsh Rectory, and became a care home before it was a Buddhist centre.
We've already had news of the three Liberal Democrat MPs chairing select committees in the House of Commons. Now we also have the full list of all select committee memberships for the party's MPs: Administration Tessa Munt Max Wilkinson Business and Trade Charlie Maynard Joshua Reynolds Culture, Media and Sport Zöe Franklin Liz Jarvis Defence Ian Roome Mike Martin Education Caroline Voaden Manuela Perteghella Energy Security and Net Zero Claire Young Wera Hobhouse Environmental Audit Sarah Gibson Cameron Thomas Pippa Heylings Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Alistair Carmichael (Chair) Sarah Dyke Finance Clive Jones James MacCleary Foreign Affairs Richard Foord ...
Is it me. or are the media stories surrounding the run-up to Labour's first budget getting a bit hysterical? Warnings about businesses going to the wall if the employer's national insurance levy is raised, opposition politicians accusing the government of breaking manifesto pledges and even suggesting that the Office of Budget Responsibility is politically biased, stories about households panicking, workers facing a £3,000 pay cut and talk of a mega-inflation-busting increase in the minimum wage are all rife at the moment. To be fair, some of the speculation about what is likely to be in Rachel Reeves' speech is likely ...
DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 28 OCTOBER 2024 Seafield Road, Dundee - closed from its westmost end (in cul-de-sac) extending for a distance of no more than 20 metres in an easterly direction to facilitate a site access for a new housing development until November 2025. Blinshall Street (Douglas Street to 50 metres south) - closed until December 2024 for construction works. Douglas Street (Blinshall Street to Brown Street) - temporary traffic lights until December 2024 for construction works. Brown Street (south of Douglas Street) - closed until ...
