Weekly Road Report - West End Ward #dundeewestendDUNDEE CITY COUNCIL - WEEKLY ROAD REPORT REPORT FOR THE WEST END WARD - WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 8 DECEMBER 2025 Old Hawhill - road closed from approximately 50m south of HUnter Street (building defect) from 9 October 2025 for approximately 3-6 months. Peddie Street - give and take traffic control from Monday 8 December 2025 for 2 weeks for lighting works. Perth Road (near Ninewells Avenue) - temporary traffic lights on Tuesday 9 December (9.00am to 4.00pm) for Scottish Water work. Nethergate (at West Marketgait) - off‑peak (9.30am to 3.30pm) temporary traffic lights and lane closures on Wednesday 10 December ... (more) |
Following the Russian playbookThe Guardian reports that at least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or the Brexit party are now known to have been the focus of efforts by jailed, former Welsh Brexit Party leader, and close associate of NIgel Farage. Nathan Gill. The paper says that three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage's bloc are alleged to have "followed the script" given to Gill, who was being bribed by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors, as a police investigation into the affair continues: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the ... (more) |
Tories and Reform have big falling out in Leicestershire over alleged threats of violenceEmbed from Getty ImagesLeicestershire's Reform UK and Conservative parties have entered into a public spat over alleged threats of violence, reports the Leicester Mercury: Reform UK leader of Leicestershire County Council Dan Harrison used a speech at the full council meeting on Wednesday, December 3, to level accusations against the deputy leader of the authority's Conservative group. He claimed that Councillor Craig Smith had "threatened" him with "physical violence", including alleged threats to "knock [Cllr Harrison's] block off" if the leader "hurt someone" Cllr Smith "cared for". And so on and on. It's worth reading the full report if you ... (more) |
Giant purple dinosaurs, giant chickens and CCTVUnusually, the contest for our Headline of the Day Award has ended in a tie, as the judges found themselves unable split two entries that share a common theme. So our congratulations go to BBC News for:Giant purple dinosaur caught fly-tipping on CCTVand to Sky News for:CCTV footage shows giant chicken replacing a car (more) |
The Additional Member System and its overhang problemThe Additional Member System (AMS), otherwise known as Mixed Member Proportional (MMP), is one of the leading contenders as a Proportional Representation system for UK General Elections. However, as this piece describes, it can turn alarmingly disproportional when the number of parties in contention increases to the levels we are seeing today: five parties in England, and six in Scotland, are now polling at over 10%. AMS/MMP has been used for the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, and for the London Assembly, since devolution came in in 1999 - though the Welsh Parliament (Senedd) has decided to use a closed List ... (more) |
Jethro Tull: A New Day YesterdayIt's 1978 and my favourite LPs, along with Kate Bush's The Kick Inside, are Songs from the Wood and Heavy Horses. So when I see Repeat: The Best of Jethro Tull Vol. II in a record shop, I naturally buy it. I was expecting more songs about ley lines, poaching and outdated modes of agriculture, but what I got was the late British blues. I wanted to like it, and soon I did. (more) |
Tom Arms' World ReviewVenezuela Venezuela is not—repeat, NOT—a major drug producing country. That is according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is not even a major transit country. That honour is reserved for Mexico and Central America which provide the major transport routes from production centres in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. Some cocaine is transited to the US through Venezuela but most of the drugs that passing through the South American country are bound for Europe, according to the DEA and UNDOC. Then why, you may ask, has President Trump and his ... (more) |
Riverside Drive #dundeewestendA great historic photograph of the old Tay Ferries Terminal on Riverside Drive (more) |
Farage under pressure as the past comes back to bite himIt's official, Nigel Farage has finally lost it. The Guardian reports that the Reform leader has turned on broadcasters for questioning him about his alleged teenage racism and antisemitism as the number of school contemporaries who recalled such behaviour to the paper reached twenty-eight: In an angry performance at a press conference in London, the Reform leader suggested he would boycott the BBC and said ITV had its own case to answer, as he repeatedly shouted "Bernard Manning". Manning, a comedian from Manchester who died in 2007, was a regular face on British television in the 1970s but he drifted ... (more) |