A thousand thanks to the Classic British Telly YouTube account - like and subscribe - for posting this television play from 1975 Julie Walters, in her very first screen appearance, works behind the bar in a club, while the star is Don Warrington, already famous from Rising Damp. Their exchange about education looks forward to Walters' role in Educating Rita, and once again I am left mourning the disappearance of the single television play. As Warrington was born in Trinidad and came to England at the age of six, it was a stretch for him to play a young Jamaican ...
Market Harborough will have a banking hub by the end of this month, reports the Leicester Mercury. While the search for its permanent home is concluded, it will be temporarily housed in the offices of Harborough District Council in the town. My old friend Phil Knowles, who leads the Lib-Lab-Green coalition that runs the council, told the Mercury: "Although lots of people do their banking online nowadays, there are many residents in the Harborough district who find this difficult, do not have internet access or prefer to do their banking in person. I have campaigned for a banking hub for ...
Embed from Getty ImagesHere's the latest from Tameside Radio: A Tameside councillor married to disgraced MP Andrew Gwynne joked about youngsters swimming in human waste on the 'racist and sexist' Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp group. Allison Gwynne made the comments as members of the group joked about someone falling into filthy water. She posted: "Kids in Denton have always enjoyed swimming in street rubbish/raw sewage'. Allison Gwynne, as the Guardian has pointed out, is a significant local politician in her own right: Allison Gwynne, who posted in the group about local children who have "always enjoyed swimming in street rubbish/raw ...
I'm fast coming to the conclusion that Private Eye's Literary Review is written by the idiot grandson of someone Ian Hislop was at prep school with. Take his review, in the Eye last, of a biography of the man of letters Richard Blythe, who enjoyed a period of fame in the 1970s as the author of Akenfield: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward flew into London with hopes of making Akenfield the movie. But Blythe preferred theatre director Peter Hall, who resisted suggestions to cast Jon Voight and shift the action to the US Midwest. In the end, his TV version ...
[IMG: Headshot of Julian Tandy] It's not often a motion comes along to Federal conference that is actually about true Federalism. Federalism is a concept synonymous with the Lib Dems. We campaign for it at a national level and we practice what we preach when it comes to the internal organisation of the party. Or do we? There's a motion coming to Harrogate conference in March which addresses this for candidates – and we are delighted that it points towards a much more progressive and federal approach to how the party operates.. As those responsible for overseeing the approval and ...
It used to be Twitter where politicians came unstuck from a late night retweet or a drunken tirade, but the focus has switched recently to a less public forum, one which is meant to be private because it is encrypted, but is proving as leaky as most government departments. I suppose it is because WhatsApp provides a supposedly secure and private forum that MPs and other politicians use it for confidential chats. The danger is when they get careless and believe that they can let rip with what they really think, believing that their views will never see the light ...
If you asked someone a few years ago which party formed a British government wanting to exempt AI firms from having to adhere to copyright laws and joining the Trump government in refusing to sign an international declaration calling on AI to be, among other things, ethical, they would almost certainly have assumed it was a Conservative government, not a Labour one. The reality is that that's exactly what Keir Starmer's Labour government is doing. Both of these should be extremely concerning for us all, but for Liberal Democrats this should ring particular alarm bells. The government seems intent to ...
We were concerned to be advised by a resident recently that an elderly man had take a bad tumble due to the uneven paving on Perth Road just west of Blackness Library. We reported the pavement to the council's Roads Maintenance Partnership, requesting repairs.
