Farmer's Boy application for more live music nightsThe Farmer's Boy has applied to have an extra night of live (and amplified music) – ie Wednesdays. Please let us know what you think by emailing Chris or Michael. (more) |
Tories condemned for delay to street lighting reviewIf you don't like the plans to switch to part-night street lighting, which are being rolled out across Hertfordshire, you will not be able to influence the policy for another 18 months at least. In a recent email, the Conservative Cabinet member responsible for Highways confirmed to his Lib Dem opposite number that the current policy, which introduces a blanket measure of turning some street lights off from midnight till 6am across the whole county, will not be reviewed until the Summer of 2013. Lib Dem County Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Central Watford and Oxhey), who is the Opposition Spokesperson for ... (more) |
Speedy Gonzales: Why don't you come home ?If the Crown Prosecution Service announces today that Chris Huhne will NOT be charged, it will struggle hard to convince the public of the case. Maybe that's why Keir Starmer has called a press conference - that was Portillo's view last night. It may well be the right decision. As Uncle James in the Forsyte Saga repeatedly said, "I don't know. I can't tell." It is important that the public is (more) |
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert Backs Campaign To Teach Youngsters To Save LivesA high profile national campaign to teach schoolchildren skills which could save lives has been backed by Cambridge MP, Julian Huppert. Julian visited the British Heart Foundation shop in Burleigh Street to show his support for the charity's campaign to teach Emergency Life Support. Hard man actor, Vinnie Jones features in the television advertising for the campaign which urges people, worried about giving the kiss of life to forget it and go for chest compressions (CPR) instead to the beat of the Bee Gees' classic, Stayin' Alive. The BHF, working with the Resuscitation Council UK, is calling for youngsters to ... (more) |
Our budget priorities : Pupils before Council OfficesCllr Helen Dick and I have now submitted to the City Council Liberal Democrat proposals to improve the council's Revenue and Capital Budgets. We will have amendments to both the revenue budget and the capital budget at the Budget Meeting next Thursday but will look carefully at the ideas coming from the other political groups. In the revenue budget, by using unallocated and not legally committed money in the City Development budget, we propose saving the much-needed visiting specialists in Music and PE in the city's primary schools and also reversing the proposed cut of music instructors contained in the ... (more) |
Watchmen 2 discussion over on Mindless OnesI contributed to the Mindless Ones' post on the Watchmen prequels, or at least my swearier alter ego Andre Whickey did. That post was put together from what started as informal discussions between us, hence the writing style for my bits is very different and swearier than my normal writing. Tagged: Alan Moore, comics, me ... (more) |