The next Focus on Saltwell is currently being delivered in the ward so I volunteered for 2 patches this morning. It didn't take too long as most streets are terraces with small front gardens. I delivered 450 in about an hour and a half.As Halloween is almost upon us, some households have gone to great lengths to decorate their homes. This house, my favourite, has a spider theme!
One of the great lost chocolate bars of our youth, along with Aztec and Summit, is Cadbury's Amazin Raisin Bar. Nostalgia Central says it was sold between 1971 and 1978. This television commercial dates from 1973 and features Gabriella Drake. I don't what raisins have to with the English Civil War, but thanks again to Anachronistic Anarchist on YouTube.
"There is a price to teaching public venues to be suspicious of visitors and it is a price we all pay," wrote Stephen Daisley in response to Just Stop Oil's stunts at Stonehenge and the National Gallery. How right he was. The London blogger Diamond Geezer has written about what a visit to the National Gallery now entails: Walk-through metal detectors have been a fixture here for years, ditto a perfunctory bag check. This did tend to create queues but nothing ridiculous, and last time I visited back in May I was inside within five minutes. How much worse could ...
Age UK has found four-in-five pensioners living below or just above the poverty line will lose their winter fuel payment as a result of Rachel Reeves' decision to limit payment to those on pension credit, while research by the Resolution Foundation has found that nearly 7.7 million (37 per cent of) households will be at risk of "fuel stress" this winter and will struggle to heat their homes. It's even more severe in single-parent households, the number jumping to 77 per cent. Having started from the position of promising an energy revolution, with a proposed £28 billion a year investment ...
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.
